Easy Crayon Tote

 

Have you seen these cute crayon tote bags at Hobby Lobby?  We needed a birthday gift for one of the girls' friends, so I picked one up for $2.99.

 

We used freezer paper to cut out the birthday girl's name on the Silhouette and dabbed some fabric paint on.
 

After it was dry, we added some fun twist-up crayons, coloring books, and wordsearch books from the dollar store.  There you go -- a cute, personalized birthday gift for about $8.   It would be really simple to dress it up further or add more things to the bag, to fit your needs.

Lollipop Printable

Recently, some good friends of ours were blessed with their third child, a sweet little girl.  I wanted to come up with a small gift to take to big brother and sister when we went to meet the baby.  I quickly remembered seeing these giant rainbow colored lollipops at the Dollar Tree a few months back.

I picked up a couple there, but I have since noticed that our local Walgreen's also sells these for $1.

If you'd like, you can download the Big Brother and Big Sister label here.  Simply cut out the round shape and use some double sided tape to stick it on.  Add some cute ribbon and you have a very affordable, but very cute, gift for an older sibling!

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Of course, these could really be used for any gift-giving occasion, so I also made Happy Birthday and Get Well Soon labels.  Download the second page here.

 

 

I really loved how these gifts turned out for our friends, but the best part of the day was getting to meet this little sweetie!  Don't you just want to cuddle her?

Printable Birthday Tag

Everyone needs a little something on their birthday, right?  My girls love to acknowledge people's birthdays with cards and gifts, so I came up a super affordable little gift for them to share with their preschool classmates this year.

We started with packages of bouncy balls from Target.  They had different size packages in the party favor section, but they all worked out to be a quarter each.  I've also seen packages of bouncy balls at the dollar store. I let the girls pick out their favorite designs and then we put each one in small Wilton treat bag.  These particular ones were 3x4 inches and came in a package of 50 for $2.99.

Print out your handy dandy bag topper, cut it out, fold it half, and staple or glue to your bag.  Simple as that!
 

There are a ton of ways you could use this printable tag.  I also thought it looked cute with these dollar store gumballs.  If you were giving a toy gumball machine, you could punch a hole in the tag and tie it on.  How about a sleeve of golf balls or any kind of sports ball?

How else could you use this?  I bet there are a lot of other creative ideas out there. As for us, we now have a little box in the closet filled with our small birthday gifts for classmates, ready to hand out throughout the year.  Have fun with it and let me know if you use it!