For our first year, I decided to do a sort of clothesline with some gift bags.
Here is what you will need:
- String (I used some I had laying around the house that I had bought at a dollar store a couple of years ago).
- Gift bags ($5 for $1 at WalMart)
- Clothes Pins (25-30, a bag of 50 is around $1.50)
- Number & letter stickers
- Trinkets, candy
Find a place in your home to hang the string, long enough to hold 25 gift bags. I just hung mine up with push pins, its been up for about 3 days & is still holding strong!
Label your bags with the letters & or numbers, 1 thru 25. I had a sheet of scrapbooking stickers in my scrapbooking stuff but not enough numbers to label all of the bags so I spelled some of them out, on the 25th bag I spelled out "Merry Christmas!".
Fill bags with trinkets & candy bought at the dollar store or things that can be regifted to your kids. I found some packages with more than one item in them to cut down on the cost. Other ideas would be to write little notes & put those in the bags. I spent about $30 on the items for 2 kids. I put a gift for each child in the bags & stapled them shut. They will be taking turns opening the bags.
Hang the gift bags with the clothespins on the string. Some of my bags ended up being too heavy for 2 clothespins, I ended up using about 30 of them.
Each day, let the kids open one bag. We will be doing ours after homework & dinner is done.
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