A Little Birthday Treat Idea

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I love birthdays.  I love school.  It just so happens that my very first day of school (kindergarten) was also my 5th birthday!  What a wonderful birthday present for a future teacher. ;)

Every few years, my birthday (August 21) still falls on the first day of school....this happens to be one of those years!  I always like to do a little something extra special when this happens.

I remembered seeing this idea on Pinterest a while back, but for the life of me I couldn't find it again!  Oh well, I went off of memory.  If you know where this original idea came from, let me know and I'll add a source.

How precious, right?  I searched every store I could think of for cups with these domed lids, but no luck!  So, I headed to Starbucks and they were kind enough to donate a class set of their tall-sized cups (the smaller the better...less to fill!)

I dropped a few pieces of candy inside the bottom of the cup (I did a few smarties, tootsie rolls, hershey kisses, and a laffy taffy), then piled on the whipped cream white crinkled-paper (Hobby Lobby in the wrapping paper aisle). 

I bought sparkly, skinny duct tape (also Hobby Lobby) to wrap around the cup and then made a label to go on the front. 

My husband poked holes in the lids so that I could slide the straw pencil into the lid.  Of course, you could add cute sparkly or patterned pencils, but all of mine are at school so for this photograph, I used THE pencil. #ticonderogarules

Finally, I topped it off with a red cherry lollipop that I found at Party City (24 pack on the red-themed aisle).

I almost want to keep them and give them to students on THEIR special days, but I guess I need to search for another cute idea for that....any ideas??  I do have one other new birthday treat up my sleeve that I'll share about tomorrow!