HEART COVERED WAX PAPER

Right about this time of year, teachers are feeling pretty stressed out.  

It's already February,

but . . . 

Its.  Only.  February!

There's still a lot of work to be done. 

It was at this time of the school year, when I'd start to ask myself, "How am I going to teach them everything I need to before the end of the year?"

How do you get through those "forehead against the blackboard kind of days?"

Well, CHOCOLATE, of course!

So I baked a batch of my very own secret recipe chocolate chip cookies . . .

and followed a packaging idea from Martha Stewart.  I got out my wax paper . . .

  . . . and some Valentine paper cocktail napkins.

Cut out tons of hearts from the hapkins.

Then make a "sandwich" in this order:  paper towels, wax paper, hearts, wax paper, and paper towels.  Then set a dry iron to medium, and iron the "sandwich".   Voila!  The hearts get sealed inside. 

(Just like making stained glass with crayon shavings as a kid in grade school.)

 

Then package up the cookies in neat little stacks.  I put about 5 or 6 cookies in each package.  Enough to put that chocolate craving to rest, but not enough to totally ruin your New Year's Resolution!

 Then I tied them up with some ribbon and homemade tags.  I used the antique "HARE" dictionary page from the Graphics Fairy again.  I sure have gotten a lot of use out of that graphic - love it!  Thank you, Karen!

 Now they're ready to deliver to a couple of good teacher friends as they tackle another Monday morning in February.

February classroom stress relievers - comin' up!

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