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Hey party peeps! As a professional party planner and party stylist you would think that I give the most amazing Christmas teacher gifts, right? WRONG! Ready for some honesty? Well, I usually forget that I have to get teacher gifts almost every year and run—and I mean run—to the store to grab a gift card on the last day of school before Christmas break. I know…I know…NOT CUTE! Well, this year, I have been focused on taking short cuts and managing my time better so that I actually have time to enjoy the holidays and not run around like a mad woman trying to get things done. Not to mention, Riley, my youngest daughter, asked me in her sweet little voice if we could make something special for her teacher this year for Christmas. WELL, WELL, WELL…that was all the encouragement (kick in the butt) I needed to come up with not only a cool Christmas gift for her teacher this year, but to make a party of it!
HOW DID SHE DO THAT?
I know I can’t be the only one, so why not invite over a few of your mom friends & their kids to put together these Snack Pack pudding teacher gift boxes together. Have dinner, enjoy some of the pudding snack cups with yummy toppings for dessert and then pat yourselves on the back when you’re done that you now have fabulous teacher gifts for your kids. You guys know me…I’m all about dessert bars at my parties, so of course, I will set up an interactive dessert bar with yummy toppings to accompany the pudding flavors. I headed to WALMART to pickup a few packs of Super Snack Packs in Vanilla, Chocolate, and Chocolate Vanilla flavors. Riley went with me and also picked out some cookies for the party that we would use as toppings for the pudding and offer on our Cookies for Santa favor table. She chose some of her favorites— OREOS and Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies and I picked out two of my favorites—Nilla Wafers and Nutter Butter cookies.
DECORATE YOUR SNACK PACKS!
Decorate your Snack Packs to display on your dessert bar. Here I made a red-nosed reindeer and snowball decorated pudding cup and displayed them on the dessert table for a bit of whimsical fun. You can also include this in your party as an activity. All you need are white cotton balls, brown chenille stems, a red circle label or cut paper and googly eyes. Place them on the cup with hot glue and you’re done!
PUDDING & COOKIES DESSERT BAR!
I decided to go with bright and festive decor like this fabulous penguin, glittery Santa, and a few tabletop Christmas ornament trees. My favorite part of the table is this whirly cupcake stand that I instead filled with Snack Pack pudding cups and topped the stand with the Santa driving a car—looks like Santa is winding down a mountain!
To compliment the chocolate, vanilla and chocolate/vanilla combo flavored pudding I crushed up the cookies and placed them in small glass containers. Place an un-crushed cookie in the container so guests know exactly what type of topping it is. Here I used my favorite flavor combos of:
– Chocolate Peanut Butter (chocolate pudding topped with crushed Nutter Butter cookies)
– Cookies & Cream (vanilla pudding topped with crushed OREO cookies)
– Vanilla Crunch (vanilla pudding topped with crushed Nilla Wafer cookies)
– Chocolate Chip (chocolate/vanilla pudding topped with crushed Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies)
GIRLFRIEND TIP: Snack Pack pudding cups make the perfect party dessert as they are served and stored room temperature so there’s no need to stress out about keeping them cold. They also come in their own clear containers so you can just take off the top and serve! AND…using cookies as toppings is perfect as they can be left room temperature too.
ASSEMBLE YOUR HOLIDAY TEACHER GIFT BOXES!
It can’t get any more easy than this! I picked up some holiday cardboard boxes with lids that were ready to go. No wrapping needed. HALLELUJAH! Fill a few small sealed containers with toppings that compliment each flavor of pudding. Put the lid on and you’re done! Don’t forget to stick a gift tag on the box. That’s it!
SEND GUESTS HOME WITH COOKIES FOR SANTA!
As an added holiday touch, set out some of the extra cookies on a tray with favor boxes so your guests can take some cookies home for Santa!
Check out Snack Pack for more holiday ideas to create fun and yummy recipes this holiday season. And to get you started with setting up your Pudding & Cookies Bar, here’s a Snack Pack coupon.
Happy Holidays!
Tonya
WANT MORE HOLIDAY INSPIRATION?
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I love, love, love the teacher’s gift idea- what an affordable and easy to enjoy gift idea! Thanks for the several great tips! #client
Very cute idea!
What teacher wouldn’t love to get that for Christmas? I think that is a lovely gift idea.
This is SO adorable. And now I want pudding…
I want pudding to this have a snack together.
Best setup ever! I can’t think of anything better than cookies and pudding together. Yum!
Okay this is awesome. I want to come hang at your house cause you rock. Can I ask do you like reuse your decorations or do you buy new ones for each party?
What a fun idea! I am trying to plan a party for this christmas too, this would be a fun way to do it!
OMG! This is so cute! I absolutely love your snack bar! So festive! My best friend was just talking about how she wasn’t sure what to get her daughter’s teachers and this would be perfect! I’m passing this along!
Thanks for the coupon and the awesome ideas! We love pudding!
I love dessert bars! They are so fun to have at parties or family get togethers.
What a great dessert bar idea!! I don’t know anyone that doesn’t love cookies and pudding!
This is such a fun idea! I bet I would be the mom who totally forgot about giving the teachers Christmas gifts too. Now I’ll have this to fall back on.
I’ve just got to make a pudding and cookies dessert bar for the kids. I’m pretty sure us big kids will like it equally as much.
Yum, what a great way to dress up pudding! This would be a perfect dessert for our New Year’s Eve party. We always have adults AND kids, and I love finding new ways to keep the kids happy!
I love those reindeer pudding cups. I can’t believe I have never seen those before but I am going to have to make those this year.
Oh this dessert bar looks amazing. Your mixing choices are perfect and those decorations are so pretty!
wow… that’s a fabulous set up! Fun for kids too. I love snack pack pudding
My son would be in heaven! You have everything he likes! Such a beautiful display!
Everything looks so festive and delicious! I love that white reindeer you have on the table. May I ask where you found him?
Pudding and cookies?? Yes!! this looks like it will be a great party!!
This would be a great party to have with my daughters and their friends!
Oh my goodness, how absolutely adorable and simple and complicated at the same time. I have no idea how you do it, I am looking at this table scape and the cuteness that you put together and all that I can do is sit here and say WOW. Want to come create and design for the few parties I will be throwing? ADORABLE!
What a creative way to serves snacks this Christmas! Especially if there’re a lot of kids in the family. So lovely!
I feel like every time I open a blog post of yours that it is like Christmas morning – you have amazing talent and this is yet another fab idea.
These are indeed very cute ideas with the puddings. I love all the Christmas decorations. The idea of decorating the Snack Packs. snowman and reindeer
What a good idea to decorate the snack packs. Easy peasy and very cute too.
Love the adorable reindeer puddings! I think those would be perfect for my youngest to share with her friends for school. K, I NEED that penguin. Adorable!!
I love all of your ideas for dressing up pudding cups!! The little reindeer is too cute 🙂
This setup is just so adorable! I love how you repurposed a cupcake stand to use for the pudding cups. That’s a great idea!
I love the reindeer pudding cup. These look so fun to make. I will have to make some for the Holidays.
That looks like one great holiday party! I love using a cupcake tier for the pudding cups.
Wow!!! What wonderful ideas!!! I’m a teacher and I would love if someone gave me one of those yummy snack boxes. And so pretty too!
This is a very nice dessert bar. My boys love snack packs and I like them bc I can buy the sugar free or even low fat ones too
Look at all those yummy and sweet snacks. I love the set up of it all. So pretty.
I love the whole setup and I totally love the idea as well! I definitely would love to setup a dessert bar!
This is such a cute and fun idea! I love the idea of having a gift making party with friends.
Great ideas for everyone’s family favorites!! Your decorative pieces are so FUN!!
What a cute and festive dessert bar! The different puddings topped with assorted cookies are pretty and look delicious.
Absolutely adorable holiday decor set up. So bright and colorful. My kids would love this. I bet the adults in my family that are coming to our holiday party would love it too.
That is such a fun and festive dessert bar. My kids love those snack cups! I have to try to decorate the containers again!
This is the cutest party idea! I love the decorations-they’re so bright and cheery!
Yeah! You totally snack packed it up. I love that tiered thing you had some of them on. Love all th bright Christmas decor!
What a lovely idea having a pudding and cookie bar. I really like the raindeer design, it is so cute, lovely and adorable!!! I cant wait to try it out this over the Christmas season 🙂
Oh wow, I want to be that teach at the receiving end of these awesome gifts. I am sure they will love them and your daughter must be really happy.
Oh my! If we have a pudding and cookies dessert bar just like that, I won’t be leaving the place! Looks deliciously awesome!
The pudding would be a great snack and dessert combination. Kids would love it with the personal touch.
What a cute display! My girls would love to make (and eat!) reindeer pudding cups – very cute!
Oh wow, I love how colorful it all looks! My kids would love a Snack Pack bar. They’d go to town.
My niece and nephew would love doing something like this! I think I will have to suggest it to their grandmother 🙂
This is such a creative idea! I love the snowball pudding cup…how easy is that? My kids would be in pudding heaven!
What an amazing pudding and cookies dessert bar! I’m sure all the guests would love it. Those favor boxes are super cute too!
You did an amazing job with the table decorations! Love the ideas you shared!
This is an adorable party idea! I love the stand with the pudding cups in it. Actually I love it all. The decor is so fun and the dessert ideas sound delicious.
I really loving how you put everything together! Love LOVE those blue Christmas boxes.