December 06th, 2020

Every year, we send family in Utah something to do on Christmas Eve.  We've sent games, nerf guns, pajamas, Sunday toppings, all kinds of things.  This year, I wanted to send the fixings for hot chocolate.  

Now anyone that knows me knows that the wrapping is part of the present.  I just love fun creative ways to give gifts.  Hot chocolate really needs something to make it "pop".  So here is what I did.

First I cut out these little treat bags on the Silhouette.  They are an easy enough pattern that it would be simple enough to just cut with scissors and a paper punch if you didn't have some sort of cutting machine.

I found really cute glass ornaments at Hobby Lobby.  Then I just made homemade cocoa mix - but I put it in the blender so that it looks more like commercial cocoa mix - and funneled it into the ornaments.  I went ahead and put the ingredients on a tag because the family we are sending them to sometimes doesn't eat certain things.

Oh, they look so pretty all packaged up!!  I want to keep one!  For the hot cocoa toppings, the only thing I had to do besides repackage into cute little jars was chop up marshmallows.  I chopped them in powdered sugar so they wouldn't stick together.

We do send regular gifts, too, but I can't tell you what they are.  It would ruin the surprise!  What are some things you do to put a little "pop" into the holidays?