Preschool Treats

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Gavin is now in preschool. He absolutely loves it. Each week, they have a letter of the week and a child is assigned to bring a "letter snack." This was Gavin's week to bring the "letter snack" so on Monday I took Skittles (letter of the week is 'S.') to the office for them to take to his classroom for snack time. When he got off the bus, he was not too happy with his mommy. He really wanted to bring so sort of cupcakes. But, cupcakes start with a C, not an S. So, I emailed his teacher and asked her if it would be ok if we sent another "letter snack" one day this week. She said that would be great. So, the hunt was on for cupcakes with an 'S' theme. This would have been much easier if I could make cupcakes, but everything must be store bought, with a label because of kids with food allergies. Anyway, I had previously seen Spiderman Cupcakes, Spongebob Cupcakes, and Superman Cupcakes, but yesterday, nothing! I searched high and low for some sort of cupcakes with the theme 'S.' Kami and Luke were none to pleased being dragged from store to store looking for cupcakes they wouldn't even be able to eat. That is, until we happened upon a store (Albertson's) with cars for grocery carts!
Finally, after some Facebook suggestions, I bought orange Halloween cupcakes and a pack of (100!) spider rings and put them in the cupcakes.

I think they turned out super cute, and best of all, the kids can keep their rings! Gavin was really excited to bring cupcakes to school today! I'm sure he'll have a nice orange stain on his (brand new) white, long sleeve uniform shirt! Temperatures were unseasonably cool for Louisiana today, so he wore long sleeves, with a jacket, for the first time this school year!

What about you? Do your kids get to bring treats to school? If so, what's their favorite? Gavin's is definitely cupcakes!