Project Eight: Reindeer Gift Bags

I wanted to make ornaments for my son's class this year. If you're wondering where the post is about the ornaments I made off a Pinterest idea, you will not find it here. I tried. I looked. But none of the Pinterest ideas seemed appropriate for 1 year olds to remember their daycare years. But, they needed a cute way to be wrapped. Enter reindeer gift bags!

Here is my model. This is from a site called Room Moms 101: Where you can find ideas for all your school needs. P.S. They did a much better job than me!

Here are my supplies. I had the lunch bags and clothespins on hand. If you read my last post, the wiggly eyes and jingle bells were borrowed from my Reinbeers project. I did not have enough pipe cleaners left for the antlers on the bag, but I felt the clothespins would keep the bags closed better.

I took a brown marker from the kids markers and put some lines. I was trying to be artistic, but I think maybe they just look lazily completed. Keep in mind, these are for 1 year olds.

If you're wondering what is going inside these lovely bags, here it is. Their treat is a package of fruit snacks. And here is my ornament. I ordered these from Oriental Trading Company. You could make a Santa, Snowman or Reindeer. I loved these because there was plenty of room for the kiddos names. They all received a matching rubber ducky, also from Oriental Trading Company.

Here is my first completed bag! They are much simpler than my model, but I wasn't willing to put a lot of time or money into this project. Especially since I know the bags will be thrown away. Oh, and they took very little time to make. A total bonus in my full-day-craftathon!

Here are all the bags. I ran out of supplies for the teacher bags, so I used my red jingle bells and made them some holly. They also got cupcakes, so I doubt they were concerned about not receiving a reindeer bag.