Store-bought gift bags sure are shiny, but so are their price tags! Check out this idea for homemade gift bags on the blog Mrs. Ricca’s Kindergarten. Your little helpers will be able to personalize their gift bags by decorating their own paper trees — functional art!
Sharlyn Petit is a Northwest-obsessed, annoying iPhone food-documenting, day-tripping fool. By day, she's an HR communications specialist, but she spends every other waking minute as a freelance writer and editor for food, travel and lifestyle content. Born in Hawaii and raised in Alaska, she left the coconuts and survival camps behind long ago for a quiet life in the Emerald City with her French husband.