To make snowman soup for all the kids

[Mummytotwox]

In dds class and her teachers? Think there's about 30 all together.

Really fancy doing it. I can get the stuff from £1 shops.

D you think this would be daft? And what would you think if your child received it from another child?
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Whizz I do get what you mean but disagree. Kids have been sending and making Xmas cards to the whole class for years. This is just an inventive alternative. I don't see it as a present as such, just a seasonal greeting, that for me as a parent is waaaay less painful than the hours of "How do you spell Raven? And Brooke? And Eva, Ava and Aoibhe?!"

i don't see how its HOT chocolate

It's the powder. You add hot water or milk!

They look lovely, but I wouldn't be impressed if one child came home with one, and I then had to rush round to the Co-op to make something similar meself for my other child seeing as you asked

Your children can't have different Christmas gifts? I don't understand why you would have to make one.

I sat down with my kids and made 30 of these (with candy canes) at the weekend, I pop them in a small Christmas hamper with a gingerbread Christmas tree (I package them in paper CD cases) and £1 shop mugs. I do a hamper ever year for all the individual families within my family, the kids all really look forward to coming to my house and getting them

Whiz we don't do Xmas cards. We have made something for the last day of term every year at school since Ds was in preschool.

It has never been an issue with the other parents. And I a friends with many of them, now Ds is in year 6.

Thanks for this idea - going to make some for my form!

Surely snowman soup is a bowl of water?

It's a lovely idea, spread a little Christmas cheer.

I tend to make baby Jesus cakes or reindeer cakes, but actually that seems a lot less fuss. Cheers OP.

Can i ask what size cones you use please mummytotwo? This is a lovely idea and i quite fancy it myself!

wow OP that is such a lovely idea
reminds me of my Dutch nursery where parents did stuff like this all the time, especially for birthdays, loads of effort went into it

I did these last year. I put the powder in a piping bag then taped it down. Then put it into another piping bag, then I put in mini marshmallows and then chocolate buttons (actually, I cant remember which went in first after the powder!) I got the ones which are 3 packs for £1 in Morrisons. Tied it up with ribbon and added a candy cane and a label. They went down really well with the family :)

White chocolate powder is a great idea.

Surely snowman soup is a bowl of water?

With a carrot and a couple of lumps of coal floating in it. Yum! :)

SaucyJack How on earth do your children cope when one gets invited to a party and not the other? Do you have a stock of party bags to give to the non-invited child?

How about adding edible glitter?

Another who thinks its a lovely idea. Last year I did gingerbread men and candy cane mice for my kids friends, sealed in a cellophane bag.

This year, I have two children in different pantomimes and I have painstakingly hand sewn felt stockings with Christmas trees on, which I them rhinestoned (took FOREVER) and we are going to fill them with a chocolate coin, a candy cane and a gingerbread man. However I am aware of at least one child who is dairy intolerant so trying to figure out how to make gingerbread without butter!

For school I think I'll just do the gingerbread men this year, but this looks like a really good idea, might give it a go!

I've had successful results using dairy free soya spread in breaking, watch the consistency of the mix though you may need to use more than the recipe suggests. Mil is dairy free but likes my cakes.

Never seen that before. Am inspired. Thank you x

Whittards used to do white hot choc, probably still do

Have to say you lot are really generous and nice doing all this xx

Options do a white choc one. Cheaper than Whittards, doesn't need milk, but not as nice!

Mini candy canes, with "mice" made out of felt (pink, or grey or white) with the candy cane forming the tail. Hard to describe, we found the pattern in a Morrisons free magazine last Christmas. Once the candy cane was eaten they used the nice as pencil toppers.

Shall sit in the corner now! Tbf, my mother said the stockings would be easy, we could run them up on the machine. Only the felt didn't run through the machine so I then had to hand sew them. 48 of them. 11 for each panto and for the residents in the home my mum works in. And she lost interest after sewing about three.

teamedward she just kept saying, "well it worked with the crepe paper ones" (we did crepe paper ones one year for her residents and put a soap and a flannel in them). I seem to remember hand sewing them too tho!!!

Ah well, they are done now! Only took a couple of days when I should have been doing the housework

Your children can't have different Christmas gifts? I don't understand why you would have to make one.

But it isn't a different gift tho if only one of my two young children comes home from the same school with a bag of treats. It's just a pain in the arse. Either one will sit there whinging while the other one eats chocolate in front of them, or I have to go out specially to buy sweets to make the difference up. Marvellous.

I don't get why you're trying to pretend I've said something weird or controversial. I'm quite sure I'm not the only parent the country who sighs inwardly when only one of the kids comes out with sweets at home-time.

saucyjack the thing is, children have to learn sometimes that they can't all have the same all the time.

In our house we have a little saying "someone's got something I haven't got" which puts paid to the whinging, although tbh they don't tend to whine about it. My children are all quite sharing and will usually offer to their siblings if they don't have something.

As I've said on a different thread, dd1 and ds1 are both going to be involved in secret Santa's this year. Dd2 and ds2 will not bat an eyelid!