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Gifty-Hoo!
The other day Bug said to me, “I wish there was a day between Sunday and Monday. A Smunday.” I couldn’t agree more. Right now I’m wishing there was a day between today and tomorrow, maybe a whole week. I have so many Halloween posts but they aren’t going to make it to this blog I’m afraid. Unless I’m super industrious today, which is possible but probably not wise considering I need to work today too. How does time go so fast? I need a Smunday!
We’re having a Halloween party at my house tomorrow, a Little Hoo themed party. You might be playing along with my Little Hoo Halloween book or you just plain love owls. A lot of people do. Who knew?!! They are awfully cute.
I thought it would be fun to make some Little Hoo gift bags. (I know, I know…as if kids need more candy at Halloween but you could put something else in them like a mini toothbrush and toothpaste or a popcorn ball or crayons and a coloring sheet—I need to make one of those!) They’re pretty easy to assemble. All you need are some lunch bags, some nice paper and a printer that isn’t running out of ink.
Print, cut, fill. Pretty simple stuff. The hard part is not sampling the Reeses. Evil peanut-butter wonderfulness!
Oh! I almost forgot a step! Little Hoo has a feather stitch design on his tummy but feel free to decorate with your own regular swoopty design. You’ll also want to trim the lunch bags down by half unless you want super tall owl bodies. That might be an interesting take.
Fold the bags over and then staple Little Hoo’s head and wings on both sides. The staples will hide in the dark color of the wings.
Now you’re ready to Gifty-Hoo!
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Hootastic Cupcake Toppers!
So who’s with me? Who’s gonna throw a Little Hoo party on Halloween? Are you getting in the mood? I am.
You might be now that I’m going to give you some free Hootastic cupcake toppers! Hoot Hoot!
Just print,
punch (or cut out with scissors if you don’t happen to have a handy puncher thingy like I do) and attach toothpicks to the back with a little piece of tape.
Then pop them into the top of your super delicious cupcakes!
Ta-dah! Instant Hoo Party time!
Whooooooo’s there? Hoo and all his friends of course!
It’s funny how willing kids are to pose when there is chocolate involved.
Now go be a real hoot and buy my book! Just kidding. No pressure from me. Just a friendly hooty reminder if you might have been thinking of it already. It’s actually selling pretty well which is AWESOME especially since I got some bad news from my editor yesterday. Secret Agent Josephine in Paris might not make it out in time for Christmas. I know, I’m sad too. But it will probably be better for it. Back to the drawing board for me.