45 magnets and paper bags later we are wishing all the GCA little ones a Merry Christmas! What do you get 45 elementary schoolers when you would love for the gift to be free? 45 is a big number and a lot of presents! It must also be nice because, "When it's free, it must be perfect!"
Mom found some free magnet ideas and paper bag cut outs online. So we figured out the number for each class and printed them out!
Kindergarten got red snowman patterned bags, first grade-Christmas trees, second grade-cute snowmen, third grade-snowmen hats, fourth grade-gingerbread men, fifth grade-holly.
This was all a great idea in theory until you run out of ink. Being the creative educators we are, we improvised! We printed the patterns in black and white and colored them.
This wasn't the only thing we used up. With only a handful of the magnets left to run through our xylon machine, we ran out of the magnet cartridge. Let me just tell you, it was quite humorous. Mom and I were in the basement pulling as hard as we could to get all the magnet we possibly could! "Waste not, leave not." Well, we still had to make a trip to Hobby Lobby. It was almost free! Purchasing a less than $3 strip of sticky magnet and we could finally finish! We thought......
We were almost done and mom realized there were two birthday magnet smileys. That could not do because these are Christmas presents, so we had to salvage the magnet (because we used a majority of the recently purchased magnet strip) and print two more pictures.
Mom had the idea to attach brads to each of the bags to keep them shut along with the gift tag explaining the gift and we finally finished! The above picture shows the brad in the star of the tree.
It was quite the project! We were happy with it in the end, after all....it was almost free!
-Emily
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