To make snowman soup for all the kids

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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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Sparklymommy I know what you are saying but I'd be upset if a family who was struggling month to month spent money on stuff like that to give to my child.

OP, Just being a kind kid in school is a massive thing worth so much more than chocolate. Save your money. Am I miserable for saying that? Probably.

I am not advocating giving when you really can't afford to, but its an observation.

It sounds lovely but if my child was in your dd class, I would have a very heartbroken child as due to serious health issues he cant tolerate chocolate or things with lots of sugar, sweets, fruit etc. I normally can reason with him but if he saw all his friends eating it I'm sure it wouldn't matter that it results in massive amounts of pain an can result in hospital admissions . He would want it! I'd speak to the teacher before hand incase there a child like mine :)

I think, do it for your DC friends but not the whole class, it sets a precedent that would mean others may feel they would have to reciprocate. Lovely thought though.

OMG, what does it matter if the OP works or not, or if others don't do this?

I think it is the most lovely suggestion and my dc would have loved something like this and given lots of thanks for the gesture.
You have given me the idea for our xmas eve stocking,

Ooh, sorry I never came back on last night. White hot choc is available from Thorntons and Whittards. It's more expensive than normal but it still works out cheap enough if you're dividing a tub between the parcels.

Looks great, and having read the thread, I get what it is, but for the idiots (like me), would there be any chance of some instructions (along lines of heat a mug of milk, snip of bottom of cone, stir contents well and enjoy your snowman soup?)
Ignore all the bitchness. Its a lovely idea, and its the thought that counts.

I think this is a lovely idea and I'm pinching it for stockings!

Might do for school as well I think there's only 10 kids in the class.

Or Options do a white choc option.

I'd think 'lovely thought, ds will enjoy it, but someone's got far too much time on their hands and is trying a bit hard!' to be honest.

Actually I'm not going to do it for school because I'd feel obliged to reciprocate if my kids came home with a class present for Xmas and I don't want others to feel that way.

If you google 'snowman soup' and go to images there are loads of little poems to use for the labels that contain instructions.

I have explained, that yes, I do have too much time in my hands. It's either I make myself busy, or I sit and cry lol

If somebody did this in my son's class I would honestly think 'how lovely and generous'. I cannot relate to the idea that it would make me somehow inferior or under pressure to reciprocate. I'm astonished that people are managing to find negatives tbh (obviously apart from dietary/health issues).

'Someones got too much time on their hands' really? I'm just

So people who spend their own time and money to do something nice for a group of children at Christmas should be doing what instead?

Dd2 is 9. Some of the kids in her class bring in home made treats for the entire class from time to time. Even at 9, the class are always utterly delighted to be in receipt of an unexpected treat.

It would be a passing thought, not the sole thing that came to define them for me, jeez! Frankly I'd make the drink up that night, give it to ds, and then promptly forget about it. I most certainly wouldn't feel inferior (I'm not the type ) and nor would I feel pressured to reciprocate.

Lovely idea op. going to pinch this idea too.

This sort of thing is the norm in our school (not in the uk).

Every child will bring sweets and a cake for their birthday. At Christmas when my dd started school five years ago every Christmas card had a candy cane sellotaped to the front so your dc were getting about 15 a day. Then people started sticking chocolate on and a couple of years later that was the norm. Often chocolate and the candy cane. Now people are going things like this.

I think it is a lovely idea and I would like to be given one myself!

Gosh there are a lot of horrid messages here.

What on EARTH is there here to have a beef with? It's a nice little idea, that the OP can clearly afford and wishes to spend some time doing, and which will put a smile on 30(ish) kids faces at Christmas, a time traditionally for GIVING. Those posters with sticks rammed so far up their arses as to not be able o see this for the lovely gesture that it is need to take a long hard look at themselves.

OP, I think it's lovely, and if my DD came home with one I would be touched that you took the time to make something so kind. And then I would make the hot chocolate up, because its not terribly hard to understand that it is a 'pop it in the cup and add water job' and probably try to persuade her that it is absolutely horrendous so that I could drink it myself

I think its great, nice little Christmas memory for the class.

I don't feel the need to compete with other parents so I wouldn't feel pressured to reciprocate.

I'd genuinely think 'that DC has a thoughtful mum, how nice' and let my DC enjoy the 'soup'.

Oh no don't cook snow men

OP I wish my DS was in your dd's class, he would be thrilled to receive it, as I am sure they will all be. I am sure the parents will also be pleased that their child has been given something to make them smile.

Its a brilliant plan to keep yourself busy by doing lovely festive things, well done.

Only on MN could an offer to make treats to set childrens' hearts all a-glow at Christmas-tide end with the offerer getting a slagging

Sounds lovely OP. I'd do it for my nieces and nephews if I weren't such a lazy baggage.