This is a fun and easy gift to make as a thank you, hostess gift, teacher gift, welcome gift, or a small holiday gift. Once it is made fill it with a snack mix, candy, cookies, or a treat of some sort. The snack can be homemade but, to make it fast and easy pick up something from the snack isle at your local grocery. I gave out several of these as Christmas gifts and I filled them with a mixture of M&Ms and a sweet Chex Party mix.
To make you will need:
- A jar (this one was a Del Monte Peach jar).
- Paper
- Paint (optional to paint lid)
- Mod Podge (optional, if you paint lid use this as top coat over paint on lid).
- Brown ink
- A punch
- A Sepia photo
- Twine
- Brown stamping ink
- Brown pen
- Scissors
- Glue
- Pen
- Small pre-made inner label (or make one yourself). Use this to write on.
To make:
- Paint lid, after it is dry "ink" around edges for antique look, when dry coat with Mod Podge.
- Cut two paper strips long enough to fit around jar. Make one wider than the other. Use these as the label, with the larger in back, and smaller centered over the back. Ink the edges of paper for antique look. Adhere to one another then wrap around jar. Make sure it is snug and glue paper together. Add smaller label on top of this.
- Make a tag. I like to use Sepia photos. This one is a photo of two of my cats because I will use this jar as a thank you to a pet sitter. I also like to use old family photos when I give this gift to family members. Ink edges of photo and paste to a slightly larger piece of paper. Punch small hole for twine.
- Wrap twine around jar near lid, and add tag.
- You can also wrap more twine around middle of jar if you wish.
- Cut out a circle of paper just slightly smaller than lid to cover top of lid. Ink edges and attach with glue.
- Fill with a treat and give as gift.
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