Fortunate Valentine’s Cookies

Sev­er­al years ago, I want­ed to come up with a Valen­tine’s Day craft with which my then almost four year old could help to hand out to her preschool friends and teach­ers. I thought the idea of dip­ping for­tune cook­ies into Wilton can­dy melts, adding sprin­kles, then pack­ag­ing them up into minia­ture Chi­nese take-out box­es would be per­fect, as it was­n’t too dif­fi­cult and most impor­tant­ly, she could par­tic­i­pate in putting togeth­er! We added a lit­tle tag read­ing: For­tu­nate to have a Valen­tine like you!

Though she hand­ed out her Out of this World Valen­tines to her class­mates this year, I need­ed to come up with an idea for gifts for all the teach­ers at her school. Our PTO shows our grat­i­tude every year dur­ing Teacher Appre­ci­a­tion Week, but we also believe in thank­ing our teach­ers peri­od­i­cal­ly through­out the year. So, about every six weeks, we hand out lit­tle gifts or treats to our school staff and guess who’s in charge of this?! When think­ing of some­thing sim­ple to make, yet super cute, I fig­ured why not re-vis­it this idea and hand out For­tu­nate Valen­tine’s cook­ies to our teach­ers! After hand-dip­ping all 300 cook­ies, I made tags with a pre­cious for­tune cook­ie image from Jin God­win Designs and attached them to Valen­tine full-sized take-out box­es from Wal-Mart. They were a hit!

Any plans to cel­e­brate Valen­tine’s Day tomorrow?

 

Merci Beaucoup!

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