First Day of School and Teacher Gifts

I think like most moms I approached the kids going  back to school  with excitement and fear.  The big scary what if that comes with sending your little ones out into the world.  The realization that 30 hours of every week your babies are living a life that has nothing to with you.  For the first time in a long time, this school year it will be just me and my baby home alone together 6 hours every week.  CRAZY.  Emma will be in 2nd grade, Alan will be in kindergarten and my little Logan will be going to preschool 3 days a week.

First I took my Emma girl off to school.  

Then I came home and got my Alan boy ready to go to Kindergarten.  Of course the other boys had to get in on the action.  

All day I kept watching the clock and hoping not to hear the phone ring.  Finally the time came, and when I went to get my little girl she was all smiles.  

Success!!

So after seeing this post about back to school teacher gifts I knew I just had to make little gifts for this kids to take their teachers on the first day of school.

So here is what I came up with.

The original post gives a great tutorial on how to make the chocolate covered oreo pops, but she used a candy mold and I didn't have a candy mold, so here is how I did it without a candy mold.

First you have to stick the lollipop sticks in the cookies.  To make sure they stuck to the stick really well, I opened each cookie and dripped a little chocolate in there to "glue" it all together.  Once they were cooled I dipped each cookie in the red chocolate and placed it on wax paper.  

Before it dried very much I moved it so there wasn't a lot of left over pooling on one side of the cookie.

Then,  once again, before they were all the way dry I stuck a little piece of pretzel in the top and added a leaf using green fondant (because I already had some on hand.  You could also use a fruit roll up.).  Then I just suck them in the little bags.

I got the little buckets at the dollar store and filled them with things teachers need.

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