Please Help!

I am in charge of the Treat Rotation at Whitney's class' Halloween Party on Friday and I am at a loss. There are lots of great ideas out there, but I have to work with these 2 parameters-- it can't be homemade (school policy) and I need it to be inexpensive...not a good combo.

These are some of the ideas I've found online and am mentally trying to modify to fit my needs.

These spider legs are held inside with peanut butter, but I think that's a risky move with so many peanut allergy sufferers these days (I guess that means I have a 3rd parameter to work around). Maybe cream cheese or spreadable cheese would work, but would the kids want to eat like 50 of them? There are 26 kids in the class.


I was thinking that the marshmallow head part of this might be fun for them to make and then eat (no cupcake) but would that be lame? I should probably check with Whitney. I have 15 minutes for the Treat Rotation, so this would keep them busy.


I think this googly eye is rather funny, but how could I do it without the cupcake?


Would something like this be too boring? I'd probably need a ton of it, plus what would we do while we ate it? It won't take 15 minutes to eat a handful of this.

I am very well-intentioned and good natured about these class parties, but I find myself severely idea challenged so I need YOU! I'm open to pretty much anything that fits into my parameters so please give me your ideas.

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My Kind of Eureka

I am an idea-challenged person (a Kristi Wannabe) and it drives me crazy. I am chock full of good intentions and inclinations (maybe that's why I'm so plump), yet am often stumped when it comes to having an idea to go with my desire to give. It's maddening, but makes me really appreciate it when I come up with a good idea.


It's Teacher Appreciation Week at the elementary school this week, so as Whitney's class room mother I was supposed to bring supplies for the kids to make thank you cards for the teacher. I have done this for the past couple of years, but have been dissatisfied with the generic cards the kids made and wanted to come up with something different this year. But that means I needed an idea...


Eureka! I was lying in bed last week when I got the idea to make a sheet with questions about the teacher on it, so the kids could fill in the blanks and then draw a picture on the bottom. Then I could put the sheets in a book rather than handing the teacher 24 cards. Aha.


I spent an hour in class with the kids (while the teacher was at a PTA sponsored breakfast) yesterday helping them fill out their sheets, color their pictures and sign their names.


I brought markers for them to use to write their names on a sheet of paper, and could not believe how crazy they went with them.


Surprisingly it was the boys that really went to town with the markers (what the?).


I loved seeing how seriously some of the kids (especially Whitney) took the picture drawing portion of the sheet. Also,

Here is Whitney's finished picture.

Here are Whitney's answers to the questions. Every single kid said that Miss Rosell was nice, that's got to make her feel good right?


This is the finished picture from one of the girls in the class. She took the entire amount of time to finish. I think it's so adorable that she drew a picture of her and the teacher holding hands.


When my hour was over, I went to the teacher workroom and had an aide show me how to bind the book. It was super easy and meant that the book was complete in an hour's time. Woohoo! I had Whitney deliver the book along with a bag of Cadbury Eggs (for good measure) today, so I don't know what her teacher thought, but I really hope she liked it.

**Can you believe this constitutes a big idea for me?
Are you a Kristi Wannabe too?
What do you think?**

A Reminder

This weekend is General Conference, so it's a great time to do something nice for the ladies you visit teach or for a friend.


I've made conference baskets for the ladies I visit teach for the past two General Conferences and plan to do so again this weekend. In the past I've given them a variety of breakfast items, treats, activity packets and a notebook and pen. Who wouldn't love to get something like this?


Blogging friend Emily gave this basket and wrote--"The first time I made sticky buns for all of them and dropped them off the night before so they could bake them fresh in the morning. Last time I made the baskets pictured above for their kids. They included an activity booklet for each child, pencils and crayons, and some apples and toffee apple dip. This weekend I plan on delivering "Overnight French Toast" with strawberries and whip cream to them on Saturday night. They can put it in their fridge and bake it Sunday morning to enjoy."


Kristi posted these ideas: She included some yellow note pads tied on with yellow ribbon and a fresh new pen for note taking. I wrote on the cover of each pad,

"did you know that yellow is President Monson's favorite color?

a pack of Kleenex for that talk that really gets to you

a tube of pringles

junior mints

microwave popcorn
Evian Water bottle

**Are you going to make baskets for your ladies?
(I hope you'll take pictures and post them if you do.)
What do you like to eat while watching Conference?**

Good Idea

Remember last April when my visiting teachers dropped off a basket of goodies for General Conference? We all were so thrilled with this idea that I thought I would remind us all (even me) so that we can do it this weekend for our visiting teachees. (If you do it please take pictures and document the cuteness for all to see.) FYI: This basket had a notebook, pen, licorice, candy bar and bottle of water.

**Any other fun ideas for Conference weekend?
Are you going to do something like this?
What else would be fun to put in there?**