Patriotic Gift and Tag

A Navy friend of our family was deployed in January of this year. In an effort to make his day a bit brighter we've tried to send him a "goodie box" every other month.  We keep in contact via e-mail - and he recently wrote of a good friend of his (whom we met the end of last year) that was going through a very hard time.  So, in the last "goodie box" we included a little something extra for his friend (pictured above).
I recycled a bridge mix container (or was is chocolate covered raisins?) to package up the little gift for his friend.  Here's a photo of it without the tag on top.

I included yummy stuff inside like:

• Gum
• Sour strips
• Fritos
• Fruit roll ups
• Soft Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Skittles

Hoping it will cheer him up to know that we thought about him and care about what he's going through.
Here's a photo of the patriotic tags I made --- one for each boy

Supplies used:

• Kraft Paper
• Dictionary page
• Star Template
• Red/Cream/Blue cardstock
• Jute/Twine
• Blue Eyelet
• Metallic Bic Marker
• traced tag and cut out with this showing
• Black Felt Tip Pen
• faux stitching around stars

I also included some homemade Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies this time -- hoping they will survive the trip and still be tasty when they receive them! 
I love making gifts up like this --- if they bring as much cheer to the receiver as they did to the giver they'll be happy!
This post linked to:
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