Last week, I think, I got Hershey's Special Dark chocolate bars at CVS. They were 2/$1 and I had several B1G1 coupons. So each bar was .25! My choices were to save them all for myself or quickly commit to making them into gifts. Fortunately, I chose the latter.
I covered the wrapper with Valentine themed scrapbook paper. I cut a 12x12 piece of paper into 4 6"x6" squares. This was the perfect size for wrapping around the bar. But first I held the candy bar up to the window with a piece of white cardstock in front. I traced where the words SHE (in the middle of the word Hershey) and SPECIAL appear on the wrapper. I cut out those areas from my white cardstock. That became my template to trace and cut the four pieces of Valentine paper.
When the paper was wrapped around the candy bar, the words "she" and "special" were visible. With a Sharpie, I added some words to make the sentiment complete..."Mrs. Smith--(She) is a (special) teacher!"
I hope this can help someone with a last minute, inexpensive gift. I know that all of the teachers I made this for love dark chocolate!
Angie
