by Erin
Holidays and parties always bring up questions in the type 1 diabetes community online. Do we send candy? What do we do with candy our children receive?
Each family has to decide what works best for them. We do allow Grasshopper to eat some candy. Thanks to Sugar Surfing, a method of dynamic diabetes management, we know how to handle many different kinds of foods and daily situations. Our approach to candy isn’t much different than it would be if we didn’t have type 1 diabetes in our family. In our house it is an occasional treat eaten a piece at a time, often at the end of a meal if our children have eaten everything on their plates.
Holidays are often celebrated with food and candy. We sort it, and save some for times when Grasshopper needs fast acting carbohydrates to bring up a low blood sugar. Holidays mean our low supplies get restocked! With that said, I do appreciate non-food options for holidays. In years past we have found some fun alternatives. We have some friends with severe, multiple food allergies. While we don’t have to avoid foods in our family, thinking up non-food options is fun. I like a challenge!
I brainstormed some guidelines based on what it feels like to navigate school parties in our Pinterest obsessed online world. Tongue firmly in cheek.
If you are looking for a Valentine’s card and favor that isn’t food based, here’s an idea for you. The first thing that popped into my head that would check most of the boxes on my to-do list above was coins. We have change lying around and I knew I could probably come up with enough for 20 Valentine’s favors. This project cost $10 in quarters and a few cents in clear tape, white cardstock, which I had from many previous projects, and printer ink.
My kids and I love corny jokes. The sillier the better. Of course they get a pass for the groaners because they are 7 and 4. I’m supposed to “act my age,” but I’d rather tell ridiculously goofy jokes and hear my kids giggle. So I searched around for some silly, clean jokes about quarters and George Washington, since he is featured on the U.S. $.25 piece.
- What do you call George Washington’s false teeth? Presidentures!
- Why did the football coach shake the vending machine? Because he needed his quarterback!
- What do you call George Washington’s false teeth?Presidentures!
- If you crossed a vegetable with our first president, what would you get?George Squashington
I fit four different cards on one sheet of paper, so I only had to use five sheets of cardstock for the whole project. I printed some guidelines on the project so I only had to make two cuts per page. Grasshopper and I taped the quarters over the emoji to look like eyes. A corner rounder punch finished the cards.
He was so excited to share the jokes with his class!
Check out my FREE printable of this project below.
If you use it, let me know! Happy Valentine’s Day!
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