For several months now, I have been busy pinning ideas for our new house, future gardening ideas, landscaping ideas, holiday gift ideas... and storing them all on Pinterest. Since my Brown Eyed Girl starting preschool, I have been super excited for the upcoming opportunities to help with projects and parties in her classroom.
A while ago, I found this on Pinterest.
What a fun idea!
Little treat bags for Thanksgiving that resembled cornucopias.
I pinned and was so excited to create this idea for my Brown Eyed Girls Fall Feast at school.
Cornucopia Check List:
Bugles
Runts Candies
Bags
cute tag
This is going to be a piece of cake!
I figured I would just pick everything up at Walmart on my normal shopping day and have plenty of time to put these together. After searching the chip isle for over 15 minutes, I realized that Walmart doesn't (or at least my neighborhood Walmart) sell Bugles...
How can I possibly make a miniature cornucopias with out the cornucopia?
Off to a second store...
King Sooper's does carry Bugles.
We have Cornucopias! I am so excited. The kids are going to L-O-V-E these!
I picked up some index cards and sandwich baggies.
And I went on a search for Runts.
And I searched...
and searched...
and asked for assistance.
I had three men helping me find Runts.
They had Gobstoppers, Sour Patch Kids, Raisen-ettes... all your typical movie theater snack varieties. But no Runts!
I couldn't believe I was spending so much time looking for Runts. I didn't even like Runts as a kid.
While we scoured the store, I Googled "Where to buy Runts?"
Target, Walgreens...
I paid for the Bugles, index cards and baggies and headed across the street to Walgreens.
NO RUNTS!
Oh, they carried them. They were just completely SOLD OUT!
Ladies who like to steal my Pinterest ideas - I will deal with you later!
Off to Target.
And guess what...
THEY DON'T CARRY RUNTS!
How do these people expect me to build cute cornucopia snack bags with out the cute little apple, orange and banana shaped fruit candies that are supposed to be flowing out of my Bugle cornucopias?
After walking up and down the candy isle 12 times praying that a box of Runts would suddenly jump out from the isle and say, "Just kidding!!! Here we are!" I gave up.
So much for my horn of plenty.
I was about to completely give up all together and say to hell with this cornucopia idea when I spotted these...
Okay so Sixlets aren't tiny apples, oranges or banana candies. But they are fall-ish colors, they are tiny, and they are chocolate - which kids love. And which I was in desperate need of... that or a an adult beverage.
I got all my supplies gathered up and started stuffing the little sandwich baggies.
I started closing the bags and stapling index cards on top.
This looked nothing like the Pinterest post.
It was bad enough I had to substitute Sixlets for Runts... I was getting an D- on this Pinterest attempt. Borderline Pinterest failure.
It was time to step up my game.
Little searching around in the office...
scrolling through some clipart...
and voila!
Ten little cornucopia snack bags ready for the Fall Feast!
I think I will have to give myself a B- on this DIY Pinterest Pin.
Cornucopia - "plenty" of trouble...
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