Any chance you can ask the parents that are bringing the sweet
> things (cupcakes...) and ask them to bring something healthier
> instead? <scratches head> It's worth a shot.
>
No. I did bring trail mix and carrot, and nothing was taken.
SES is socio economic status.
The marshamllow things were a HUGE PAIN and no better than Peeps
anyway.
The witch hats were a hit everywhere.
Nutter Butters are no longer peanut shaped where I live, so I couldn't
make those ghosts :-( I went to 6 grocery stores, they're round or
they don't have them anymore
TARA
> :
> : I got Halloween baggies and I'm covering nutter butters with
> meltd
> : white chocolate with choc chip eyes (ghosts), rolling out
> marshmallows
> : in 10x sugar and adding eyes for more ghosts, putting hershey
> dark
> : kisses on cookies as witch hats (with orange icing bows),
> dividing a
> : lot of tropical trail mix, making a bundt cake orange like a
> pumpkin
> : with a cone for the stalk, cutting toast into jack-o-lanters
> with eyes
> : etc. of either yellow cheese or peach jam, crackers, apples and
> : cheddar, I am mixing ginger ale, OJ and lime sherbert in a
> "cauldron"
> : and parents of my kids are supplying soda, hot dogs wrapped
> like mummy
> : fingers,cupcakes, chips, plates and napkins. Oh, and I bought
> cocoa
> : covered peeps shaped like bats and lots of cheap candy.
> :
> : I would LOVE to do a veggie tray and other healthful things,
> but I
> : know it'll be a waste with cupcakes etc. available. My class
> has a
> : low SES and they eat a lot of junk :-(
> :
> : Any other easy, inexpensive ideas? I might buy a made pumpkin
> pie,
> : too.
> : Tara
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