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How to Make Halloween Treat Bags

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Halloween Treat Bags

Sponsored by Global Influence With Products Supplied by Hershey’s
I have been going to my son’s class to share a book and the do an activity with them once a month. I was planning on sharing to book T.Rex Trick or Treats this month. When I was contacted about sharing Hershey’s and their Celebrate with Hershey’s campaign with you, I thought I could do an activity with his class that featured Hershey’s chocolate in Halloween treat bags. Dinosaurs, trick or treating, kindergartners, and chocolate just seem to go together.

How to Make Halloween Treat Bags

Creating the treat bags to hold the treats was so much fun. I hopped onto PicMonkey and created a label that I could print out on blank index cards. It was a blast to work on the labels layout. I probably spent more time than I needed to working on its design. JDaniel was at school and I lingered for the fonts for while.

When he came home, I had him punch a hole in the left-hand corner of each index cards. He was in hole punch heaven. I think using a hole punch is something most kids like to do too.  We folded down the top of each paper bag and he punched two holes in the folded down area.

The bags and hole punch were then set aside and the fun began. We focused on putting the candy without peanuts into the bags. (I wasn’t sure if everyone was allowed to have peanuts.)  That left us with five out of the six Hershey’s candies to put in the bags. The goal was to put one or two of each of the candies into each bag.

When finished distributing the candy into the bags, we folded the flaps of the bags down and lined up the holes we had punched.  With the holes lined up, we both worked on placing orange ribbons through the holes. Then we placed a card onto one end of the ribbon. Finally, I tied a bow with the ribbon. We both thought the bags looked great.

What activity do I plan to do?

The children having been talking about shapes lately in math. I decided to create a shape activity for them to do using the Hershey’s candy. Each child would be given a bag of candy treats.
Halloween Treat Bags- Treat Map

The children will be asked to trace the outline of all the candy in the bag with a crayon. They can trace the shapes onto a piece of white paper. The outlines can be placed anywhere on the paper they would like to place them. I am going to call this creating a shape map.

 halloween-treat-bags-hershey

Then the kids will be given a half sheet of paper to record the number of each shape they had in their bags. Each bag will not have the same amount of everything. So each child will have to record what is in their own bag and not look at what their neighbors have done. The kids can count the actual candy or the shapes they have traced on the paper.

By the end of the activity, they will have a shape map, a recording sheet, and a bag of treats to take home. I hope they will enjoy it. I have had fun putting it together.

Wait! What about the Reese’s  Peanut Butter Cups?

They are not going to waste. No, they will go with the remaining candy into some treat bags I am putting together for some of the teachers at my son’s school. I am hoping to start substitute teaching at his school this fall. Putting together treat bags that contain candy and a magnetic business card with ways to contact me seemed like a good way to get their attention.
Disclaimer: I was sent the candy for this post by Global Influence with products provided by Hershey’s. All the activity thoughts are my own.


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    I absolutely promised myself that this year I would not wait until the last minute to buy candy! This might be the motivation I needed : ). Super sweet!
    
		
    

		
		
	
    
	
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    Love it!  We usually chart the candy we receive in excel, and change the chart type to show what the data looks like different ways.
    
		
    

		
		
	
    
	
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    I love picmonkey! It can do everything. I love little treat bags. We’re going to a Halloween party and I may ask the hostess (a close friend) if she needs help with something like this.
    
		
    

		
		
	
    
	
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    Those are adorable bags.  I’m surprised they let you take candy to the schools. So many of them around here require snacks to be healthy and no nuts because of allergies.  Good luck with the subbing.
    
		
    

		
		
	
    
	
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