Happy Holidays, Friends! Life has been busy lately now that the holiday season is here. Last week, FHA met to exchange cookies for the 5th year in a row! Cookie exchange is always such a fun and delicious event. It's also pretty simple to host! Here are some tips to help with hosting your own: 1. Create an invitation detailing your event for guests. Make sure to include date, time, and how many cookies each guest should bring. Include any other special instructions (ex: wear your favorite Christmas pajamas). 2. Create a cookie sign-up so you don't have multiples of the same type of cookie. We use a sign-up sheet in my classroom but a shared file/email or group text message would also work great. 3. Provide labels for your guests to number and title their cookies. 4. What will your guests take their cookies home in? I purchased these bakery boxes for our event and they were the perfect size! https://www.webstaurantstore.com/southern-champion-977-10-x-10-x-5-12-white-cake-bakery-box-100-bundle/24510105CB.html 5. Is your cookie exchange competitive? Ours sure is! Provide voting ballots for your guests and prizes for your winners. We vote on Best Taste, Best Decorated, Most Creative, and Best Overall. Each of our winners received a hot cocoa kit! 6. Speaking of hot cocoa...your guests will need something to wash all those cookies down with. Hot chocolate is always a favorite of my students so the hot cocoa bar is an obvious choice for us! 7. Most importantly, have fun! A cookie exchange is all about enjoying some treats with the ones you love! I dressed up our bakery boxes with simple snowflake cutouts and strips of scrapbook paper from Hobby Lobby. It was an easy make-ahead project that has a big impact! Didn't the cookies look delicious?? Our winners took home a hot cocoa kit that included everything needed to warm up your chilly winter days! Our hot cocoa kit included:
To make things a little more fun, I put the hot cocoa mix and crushed peppermint in plastic ornaments I purchased at Dollar Tree. The kit was packaged together in a decorative tray from Hobby Lobby. The hot cocoa bar is an easy thing to put together as well! Piping hot cocoa served with all your favorite toppings. Our toppings included: white and milk chocolate chips, peppermint bark, whipped cream, caramel and chocolate syrup, and of course, marshmallows! My students love to pick all their favorite flavors and sip their fancy hot chocolate. For a little extra holiday fun, each student received a monogrammed ornament. I used the ornaments to decorate my classroom Christmas tree to complete this fun winter scene that my students could use for photos. Happy holidays from our sweet family of friends to yours!
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