Another (Boy's) Birthday Present Made

Miss 6 has another two birthday parties next weekend, one girl and one boy, so I've been getting some more things together for their presents. The girl will receive a similar hot pink apron to the ones I made last time, and I've decided that I'll make the boy a blue version of the apron. I don't know much about him other than he's a bit naughty in class, LOL, and that he's apparently obsessed with Doctor Who! His mother is a music teacher so she might have the patience to help him out in the kitchen, even if he is a bit "energetic", but if not he could use it to help his Dad BBQ I guess.

So I made up another apron in royal blue and found a Dr Who iron-on transfer to add to the front:

Looks suitably boy-ish I think?

Then to make up the present, this time I decided that putting all the items inside a cookie jar would not only eliminate unnecessary packaging, but be useful as well. So I found a nice sized cookie jar, and popped in the apron, and a child-sized wooden spoon. To finish it off, I made up a recipe card for very simple chocolate cookies (recipe here) on the computer, printed it out and laminated it:


If you look closely, I used a picture of Doctor Who I thieved off the Internet found legally as the background and called them "Doctor Who's Favourite Chocolate Shortbread Cookies". I even used the NSW Foundation Style Font to write it up, as that it the font they are using to learn to read at school.


So the end result: no disposable packaging, no plastic toys made from/ coated with potentially toxic materials and no small parts to get broken or lost, but DOES include a potential learning experience through reading and following a recipe and doing some cooking. Gosh, how virtuous am I feeling right now? ROFL!