Yay! I am back as promised with today's actual post. This year I decided that I would get a lot more involved with my DD's school. The school has a Parents Group which is a sub-committee of the P&C. Well I decided I would volunteer to be the convenor. I am so very glad that I did - however the Parents Group is responsible for organising and doing a lot of things for the kids. Every year the Parents Group puts on a Pantomime for the K-2 kids. As convenor it fell to me to organise it. Luckily I don't need to worry about the script as we have three and rotate them, so no child gets to the see the same one. We also organise a gift that Santa gives the children at the end of the Panto. This year I decided I would make rosettes as ornaments. Well I got through 150 of them and decided there was no way I was going to be able to finish the next 150 so I put them aside. This is what I came up with instead.
I used the cool new thin cellophane bags from Stampin' Up! and managed to get 9 jelly beans per bag. You can put any manner of items into these cellophane bags. A pencil works great especially if you don't want to give lollies. After stuffing 300 of them I decided that they needed a topper, so I used Tags Til Christmas, the 1" Square Punch and the Scallop Square Punch.
Here is a picture of the toppers. Do you know how long it takes to punch, snail and attach these toppers to 300 cellophane bags? A long time but it was worth it.
What is more I think the Panto was a success and the kids seemed to enjoy it.
Thanks for looking.
'Til next time,
Juliette
2 comments:
Gee, you sure have been busy lately Juliette. You must be super organised as I'm tired just thinking about what you've been up to LOL! Your jelly bean bags look great. I helped my friend make about 40 of these for the Friendship Service at church yesterday but ours had M & M's. They were serving Christmas lunch and each place setting had one of these and a Tea for Two bag as well. Hope the old folk liked them.
Oh my! You have been one busy Mama! The little treats are so cute and festive and I can completely understand why you chose them over the ornaments (300 rosettes? Yikes!) and I'm sure the children appreciated the jelly beans too!
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