S'Mores Gift Treats

I want to thank Pinterest for this fun teacher's gift idea. 

As most of you know, I own and operate a small neighborhood daycare.  I love it.  It is truly my life.  Well, this upcoming week is "The Week of The Young Child".  It's a way of celebrating our children through our community, literacy, family, our teachers and staff. There is an old saying..."It takes a village to raise a child".  How true is that?

Each day we will celebrate something different.  I am celebrating the last day as teacher's day.  I always try to make that a fun day for them.  Anyway, with all this being said, I found this cute teachers gift bags and I wanted to make them.  I took a few pictures....tell me what you think?

The supplies.

For the majority of the treats I used full size candy bars with two graham cracker.
then I ran out of full bars and added the miniture size.



Then zip up the bag and staple the tag at the top of the bag.

Then I fill up the basket. (everything looks better in a basket)
I will give them to my teachers on Friday.

I want to thank the following blog, "Domesticated Lady" for this idea. Just click on her site and

you can then download the paper discription of the S'more tag.

http://domesticatedlady.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/mwilson-smoreteacher-print.pdf

Homemade Peanut Butter Eggs

My granddaughter and I had a blast making these homemade Easter treats. These are the perfect peanut butter eggs, and they are free of all of the additives and preservatives that are in  those commercial PB eggs you find in the stores. Just pure fresh ingredients.   Give them a try!

4 cups of powder sugar
1 1/2 cups of all natural peanut butter
1/4 cup of melted butter
3 Tbsp butter
3 cups of chocolate chips
1 Tbsp shortening
Directions:
Mix together the powder sugar, peanut butter, and butter.
Add the milk one tablespoon at a time (I ended up using about 4 tablespoons) until it becomes a nice workable dough. Once the dough becomes workable, start rolling the dough into egg shapes. Place on a tray that has a layer of wax paper on it. Place in the freezer for at least an hour.

Now:
place the chocolate chips and shortening into a deep glass bowl. Microwave for about a minute.  Stir until  melted & smooth. Dip each egg into the chocolate and place on wax paper until set. Once set you can trim any of the chocolate off that may have pooled around the egg. Store in refrigerator until ready to serve.  SO YUMMY!

The best thing about these delicious PB eggs......are the memories I made

with my granddaughter.

Happy Easter