Back to School Cookies

Life is so busy!!! We had our daughter starting Kindergarten last week (she also had her first wiggle tooth AND she will be 6 soon???) wasn't she just 2? How did this happen? 

Anyways, I asked her what kinds of things she wanted in her lunch each day and one of the things she mentioned was cookies. She loves cookies but she's very particular on what kind of cookies. So I knew rolled Sugar Cookies were going to be a hit. And the best part is if you use small cookie cutters you get more of them and these cookies will last for weeks in a sealed container/cookie jar. 

To make these you need:

Favourite Sugar Cookie Recipe (I use Bake @ 350's)

Small Cookie cutters

Sprinkles

That's it so easy!

Roll out your cookies and cut them out. I chose a small flower and heart cookie cutter. 

 Then I poured Non Pareills (use whatever you like!) into a jar and dropped the cut cookie into the sprinkles.

See! Nice coating of sprinkles AND when you bake them they will not fall off by dipping them in first. Once you have a sheet full of cookies ready to go pop em in the oven and bake for approximately 10 minutes. Let them cool on a cooling rack for another 10 and pop em into a cookie jar.  

Look how colourful our cookie jar looks!! 

Here's our little princess ready for her first day. I almost lost it in the car on the way there but I held it together! LOL 

Teacher Love

Ava is beyond crazy excited to go to school. So excited in fact that when I tried to explain that we were going to school yesterday to meet her teacher, drop off her school supplies and sign up for girl scouts...not actually staying at school she became incredibly upset. I tried to soothe her by explaining I had made a cool present for her teacher, but that backfired too because then I got "I want you to make a present for me!!" 

Sigh.

This is so easy to make but I can tell you that the teachers love being thought of!

Supplies:

Mint Candies -We always have these on hand because our kids can be bribed more with mints than any other candy...go figure!

A small bag -I used a treat bag I usually get from Michaels or Joanns for cookies but you could use a ziplock baggie

FREE "You were Mint to be my teacher" printable - Found here on the Celebration shoppe!

Staples

Tape

Ribbon

Glue

Last ingredient...

Cute Bebe whose only three months old but refuses to sit still and not roll over. He's figured it out and he wants to be part of the action!!

First I added her new teachers name and printed the signs out. 

Next I filled my bag with mints, this would be cute if you could find those colourful swirled mints too. 

I folded my sign in the middle and measure the total length and side lengths I needed to attach it to my bag. Then I cut off the remaining strips. 

I placed a piece of tape over the bag to keep it secure. 

Then stapled the paper to the bag. Note: They aren't actually made for this purpose, they were made to wrap around chocolate bars so one side will be upside down but it's still super cute. 

I cut out some ribbon to hide the staples and used tacky glue to attach it to the card stock. 

And Voila! Super cute, easy and won't stretch your budget but will make someone feel super special! 

Umm by the way when Ava handed it to her teacher she was elated and then she looked at me and said: "Oh my goodness did you find this on Pintrest?"

Yeah, she and I are going to be BFF.

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