Sixteen Once: DIY: Secret Santa

Tis' the holiday season, where gifts are given and food is eaten. One of my favorite parts about the holidays is gifts...more specifically, giving gifts (getting them is great too). I love spending the time and the effort putting together the perfect gift for somebody, and seeing their reactions as they open the gift.

Since I celebrate Hanukkah, we don't give as many gifts as people do for christmas. I mostly just get gifts from my grandma and give to family members, but even that is rare. The one time I really get to give a gift is when my grade at school, or my advisory, plans a secret santa.
Secret santa just gives me the best feeling because you can't wait to get your gift from your mystery person, and you also can't wait to see the look on your person's face when they find out their amazing gift is from you.
This year I am doing both an advisory and whole grade secret santa, so I thought I would get a little creative and show you what I did so maybe it will give you some ideas for gifts you might need to give the time of year.

The present I made has two parts to it. the first part could easily be the gift itself, or you can go on to the next half and make the gift even bigger (but it does require a little more work)

The Unassembled Hot Cocoa

Find a mug (or something to hold it in)
Lucky for me I had a ton of extra mugs leftover from my brother's bar mitzvah.
I put the mug in an unused berry basket lined with wax paper. You can make the delivery more simple, but thats the basic idea.

Bagged cocoa powder
Fill one corner of a plastic zip-lock bag with any sort of cocoa powder (I used Nesquik)

Tie the bag closed with ribbon

Tip for curling ribbon:
Hold the top end of the ribbon and place it on the open blade of the scissors then pull the blade along the ribbon till it is curled as tightly as you would like.

Cut off the zipper part of the bag, and place in mug

Do the same with marshmallows
I used these DELICIOUS vegan marshmallows (from whole foods), because they are probably the best tasting marshmallows ever. I will never taste a normal marshmallow the same way again. Even people who don't usually like marshmallows like these.

Put them in the corner of a zip-lock bag

Tie with ribbon, and curl ribbon

Finishing Touch
Put the marshmallows inside the mug along with the cocoa powder. Then wrap the whole thing in cellophane, and your done!

If you feel like this is enough you can just stop here and this makes a perfect and quick secret santa gift.

But you can also add this to a box I like to call 'the pamper box'.

The Pamper Box
Inside the pamper box you can put almost anything. The idea of this box is to give a bunch of little gifts that are fun when you feel like a little feel good pampering might do you good.