Every year I am dismayed at how much candy my kids bring home from school on Halloween. Trick or treating yields plenty of sweets in our house- enough for my kids to have a piece or two and then I gobble up the rest. I am always trying to think of non-sweet goodies to send to school on Halloween, Valentine's Day, birthdays, etc. This is what we did this year.
I made up these little cards for D and printed them on card stock. She colored in each one...
and we attached it to this little tissue paper bundle...
filled with a little individual Play-Doh. I think I found these at our local supermarket this year, but I have bought them at Wal-Mart, too.
For I's friends I printed up these cards, and we cut slits for glow stick bracelets (from the Target dollar section.) I thought I had enough for two sticks for each kid, but I must have lost some along the way
I used two fonts:
Halloween Spider for the lettering, and
MTF Sweet Halloween Dings for the little pictures. I loved all of the images in this font- it was hard to pick just a couple. Here is the whole set:
