A Simple (and inexpensive) Thank You Gift

It's that time of year again.

Activities, practices and lessons are winding down.

I am SO thankful for our 'village' 

who help us teach and mold our girls.

This week we celebrated the last night of AWANA at our church.

It's a special awards night acknowledging all the hard work the kids put into memorizing hundreds of verses throughout the year.

It takes a large number of dedicated people to make AWANA happen

and I wanted to make sure to thank the leaders who guided our girls.

With all the different activities the girls are in, I knew I needed to keep the cost down on gifts.

So here's how I made a sweet yet cheap succulent cute.

These little cuties are 4 bucks at Lowes.

I couldn't splurge on a nice pot

(it adds up quickly)

but knew I wanted to jazz up the plastic pots a bit.

I had pinned a bunch of tutorials on making paper bags, but it turned out they were all written in another language.

Here's how I improvised:

First I found an object that was similar in size to my plant.

 I  made sure to trim the top with fun scissors.

 Then I simply wrapped the object like a gift on one side and secured it with my  handy dandy glue gun.

 Then I just slipped the paper off the object and I had myself a cute little bag that was just the right size.

After embellishing  with fun tape and a note, it was ready to deliver.

One activity down, 3 more to go!

This is such a fun and crazy time of year!

Hope you have a relaxing weekend!