Christmas eve hamper

brookeslay

:beer:
I intend to make a Christmas Eve hamper for my OH and me.

I will be 7 1/2 month pregnant by then so I will include a little star I found to hang on the tree to represent the baby.

Then us adults we have two new mugs
snowman soup
ravensberger christmas jigsaw
homemade christmas tree choccies
( melted green and black maya and fruit `n nuts)
Seen a PJ set in Sainburys that looks nice
I thought of doing a christmas quiz DVD
( it was free last year with daily mail)
mini bottle of alcohol for OH


sound okay ???

Your children all sound that will have a lovely time with their kind mummies devoting so much time and effort to them. I think the anticipation in the children is more wonderous on Christmas Eve than Christmas day which normally zooms by.


thanks B

sarahf191979

mary43 wrote: »

I've printed out the 'name a star certificate' on sort of parchment paper like a scroll and I'm covering a kitchen towel middle with silver paper decorated with stars.............might put the story inside as well.
I did put this on another thread (I think).........can't remember where now though......

Love your Idea of the kitchen Roll middle for the name a star certificate, I hope you don't mind if I pinch it

mary43

Feel free sarah - covered it this morning - I'd got some off cuts I'd been given of silvery wallpaper then I'll tie a silver ribbon round it to say what it is.

Printed out the Christmas Star story and managed to get it into columns and A5 size - all I got to do now is work out how to put it in some sort of book form and add some piccys...............oh, and create some sort of book cover.

rainmac

I've posted this on the crafty for xmas thread but fits here too so hope it's ok if I post again...

Here are my bags of reindeer food. I used oats and sugar crystals that I mixed with red food colouring (turned out pretty well)...

I've put the mixture into small cello bags, done up with an elastic band and then...



...wrapped in hessian so they look like mini sacks.



Couple of people have menitoned using sugar strands, the cake decoration stuff and I think that would work really well.

rainmac

mary43 wrote: »

I got it off this site
http://www.freelettersfromsantaclaus.com/

Click onto Christmas Stories on the left hand side and it's about the 4th one down.:j

Forgot about the Santa letters, thanks for the reminder :T just printing them now to add to my stash for the boys Xmas Eve hamper

brookeslay

I found a couple of things for the Christmas Eve Hamper

http://www.daysgonebyshop.co.uk/489_snow-growing-snowman-soap.html

would go with the snowman soup and snowman theme !!.

also :

http://www.excaliburgifts.co.uk/9.html

I love the ideas on this page the Santas Gift could be easily adapted and make a personalised choccy bar for it.


The reindeer dust looks homespun likes its comes from the elfs workshop !

B x

mary43

rainmac - love the reindeer food..................makes my little gravy granule tub with the label on it look a little bit 'sad'..................lol
Love the little bags you put it in..........where did you get them ?

jackomdj

I was at work when I thought of another thing to add to my hampers...toffee popcorn! We love it when we watch a film, it makes DD feel very grown up!

Nicky

patentgirl

brookeslay wrote: »

I found a couple of things for the Christmas Eve Hamper

http://www.daysgonebyshop.co.uk/489_snow-growing-snowman-soap.html

would go with the snowman soup and snowman theme !!.

also :

http://www.excaliburgifts.co.uk/9.html

I love the ideas on this page the Santas Gift could be easily adapted and make a personalised choccy bar for it.

thanks for great websites hadnt seen either of these and found a few more ideas

rainmac

mary43 wrote: »

rainmac - love the reindeer food..................makes my little gravy granule tub with the label on it look a little bit 'sad'..................lol
Love the little bags you put it in..........where did you get them ?

Mary the cellophane bags came from ebay, Flower Hour shop and the hessian 'bag' isn't a bag it's a rectangle of hessian fabric sort of drawn together to look like a bag. When the ribbon comes off the hessian will fall off leaving the cello bag done up with an elastic band. Does that make sense My boys are only little so didn't go to the bother to make bags as I don't think they will mind