more baby food jars...

Can you tell I have LOTS of baby food jars? We go through at least 8 a day with the twins! A friend of mine is pregnant with her 3rd baby and we had a Girls Dessert Night in honor of her. We gave her a fun pampering group gift, ate yummy desserts and chatted. I wanted to do a little something to decorate, but didn't wanted it to scream baby since this was a "nonshower". I cleaned all of the sticky stuff left over from the baby food labels on about 20 small baby food jars and 20 big baby food jars. I then added tea lights to the big jars (tea lights don't fit in the small ones) and water and flowers to the small ones and placed them all over my house. It ended up being a nice subtle "baby" decoration and my daughter and I had fun doing them together.

Baby Food Jar Valentines

Back in October I saw someone use baby food jars to do little Halloween treats with candy corn and thought it was a cute idea. As my twin boys started on solids and I had TONS of baby food jars I decided to save some of them and make little Valentine treats. I had originally thought I'd glue ribbon around the edge and just cover the top with paper, but it didn't work. The ribbon was hard to glue on straight and it bothered me that the edge of the lid wasn't covered. So, I broke out the mod podge and some red recycled mulberry paper (the mulberry paper softens up quite nicely with the modge podge and curves around the edge of the lid much better than most other papers probably would) and that did the trick. Here is what we ended up with...

We filled the jars with M&Ms and Swedish fish, stuck on a tag and they were ready for delivery to teachers and friends!

This idea could be adapted to any holiday and I also think this would be a cute party favor for a baby shower.