Since Christmas is practically right around the corner, it seemed fitting that my littles and I should take a moment this month and create a laundry list of things and people we are thankful for in our lives.
And I thought an even more fun idea would be to not only create a list of things and people to be thankful for but to give those people a small gift as a token of how much we are thankful for them!
If you follow me on Instagram, you know I like to share pictures of Happy Mail with you. Happy mail is either stuff I have received in the mail that makes me happy and brightened my day or things I have packaged up to give to someone else to make them happy. Isn’t it so fun to get something…a card, a little note, even a small package…in the mail!
The kids thought, “Hey, everyone loves donuts!” and I thought, “Heck ya, they do!” so we took that happy mail idea and ran with it and came up with Happy Donut Mail!
We spent one weekend making sweet chocolate-dipped donuts with happy orange sprinkles for some sweet people in our lives. Although you could also just buy them at the store or your local donut shop too!
We packaged them up in pretty little kraft boxes I found at Target. And wrapped them in lace and gold tinsel.
And strung a little card on the side of each box with a handwritten note telling each recipient how much we appreciate them, and how we are thankful they are a part of our lives. (Handmade with Love printables found in this post here!)
Then we dropped them off at each recipient’s home to brighten up their day like they have brightened up ours!
It was such a fun activity, and something I am sure my littles will remember for years to come! In fact we have plans to do more Happy Donut Mail deliveries in our upcoming weekend plans, how’s that for a fun Sunday afternoon project?
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XOXO,
So cute! You have the best ideas.
Awww! Thank you, Ronda! These were so fun to create!!!