May Basket Mayhem

When we were younger our mom used to help us make May Baskets to give to our cousins and neighbors. I have always planned on doing it with my own children, but have never actually followed through with it. So this year I am making 16 for Jayce's preschool class, 8 for his daycare class, 18 for Carter's class and 22 for Faith's class. Usta.

This year I planned ahead. We always have a ton of popcorn, Faith and I love it for snacks. Wal-Mart has some super cute spring colored plastic cups (think Red Solo Cup, only turquoise). I let each of the kids pick out candy to put in and we are going to use up some of the candy in our cupboard too.

Shannon whipped us up some fantastic little labels to spread our May cheer. Aren't they cute?

{click here to download your copy}

I spent a bit of time just popping the popcorn so it was ready and then the kids and I assembled our baskets.

Carter's have Spiderman candy in them. He was so excited. Faith's aren't done yet, we ran out of popcorn. Her's have fruit snacks in the bottom though. I am hoping to have enough ambition left tomorrow night to make them for my students at school. That is like 25 more. We will see.

I do have to make an emergency stop for more popcorn. I thought I had more than enough, but no. 

It's not to late for you to whip up some May Baskets for you to take to neighbors, work or school. If you do, be sure to share.

I'm a bad blogger

Last week Shannon asked me how many blog posts I was going to do and which days I wanted. I told her I would to 2. Clearly this is my first and tomorrow is Friday 5 and our outfit post. So. I failed. And what I was going to post about is not ready.
So instead I'm going to show you what I did for Jayce's Valentine treats. Except I didn't get a picture of the finished product today, so you're going to have to use your imagination. Remember, I'm a bad blogger.
I didn't want to do traditional chocolate. But I also didn't want to go totally pintrest and make some big complicated valentine for all 22 kids. So I compromised. Jayce gave bear hugs!
I just whipped up some stickers using Avery labels and some free clip art, and stuck them to snack sized baggies and put 16 Teddy Graham's in each bag (the portion recommended for 4 year olds.)  He helped stick the stickers and count the bears, so he loved it! It was cheap and easy for me, all I had to buy were the Teddy Grahams. I'm calling it a win.
Sadly all I have to offer in the way of photos are the stickers we used. If there is an extra bag tonight, I will throw a picture up. Ok? Ok.
What did you do for valentines? Old school store bought cards? Something amazing? Share with us, we always need inspiration for next year!