If you got the same note from school that I got from my four-year-old's preschool teacher, you're probably going to be up late tonight slapping together some kind of treat receptacle for Wednesday's big event. Decorate a box? Good lord, boxes go straight to the recycling bins in our house. I'm lucky I am allowed to keep the Triscuits in their boxes until I eat them, much less do I have a spare shoe box or tissue box lying around, waiting to be drenched in glitter glue.
This idea from Knit and Pearl is a pretty freaking good one: take an old bucket and glue cutout pictures onto it (she recommends pictures from a damaged book, which is genius if you ask me--magazines are also a good idea, or this could be another use for the Sunday newspaper ads), then slap on a few coats of Mod Podge and trim it with something pretty.
If you do this now (right now! Get to decoupaging, you, we're on a schedule!) and if you go easy on the Podge, it'll be dry in time for school on Wednesday. Make sure you inspect it when it comes back, in case there's any yucky candy that needs to be eaten by a grownup.
(via Kiddley)
