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Cute Care Package Ideas

December 7, 2012 By Cheryl
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Cute Care Package Ideas The holidays are a fun time for gathering friends and family to create lasting memories. Unfortunately, you aren’t always able to spend the holidays with family and friends due to distance, work schedules or other commitments. Here are some cute care package ideas for friends and family that you aren’t able to visit with during the holidays.

Cute Care Package Ideas:

  • Does your friend or family member have a computer? How about a webcam? If they have a computer but no webcam, this is a great gift to put in the care package. You can pack some special items for your computer chat date like a funny holiday hat (you could wear a matching one!), a hot chocolate mix and a special mug. This way you can chat over hot chocolate even if you aren’t in the same city together.
  • As far as cute care package ideas go, the delicious treats are always first on my list! My grandma makes a delicious popcorn cake (click here for the recipe) every year and mails it to us. If you love baking, you could bake some treats to mail to your loved ones. Make sure they are packaged well to travel – you don’t want them to open a box of crumbs!
  • If you aren’t a baker (or don’t have time to make treats) the holidays are a great time to find a variety of treats at the store.
  • Some other cute care package ideas are homemade cards & crafts from your little ones. Everyone loves to see homemade gifts from kids!
  • I’m sure you’ve seen the recordable books available at most department & card stores, recording a story for a loved one is a fun idea. If you have little ones at home, they could read the story while you record. This is sure to be a favorite for a grandparent, aunt or uncle.
  • I love silly holiday clothes! You could pack some fun & silly holiday socks, shirts, hats, ties or pajamas.
  • If you are the sentimental type, you could write your loved one a letter about everything you appreciate about them or the greatest memories you’ve shared together.
  • Long before my husband and I were married, we had to spend our first Christmas apart while I worked far up north and he went to school in the south. I packed him a mini Christmas tree with little ornaments that all held a special meaning (like a dog ornament because I called him “Pooch”).
  • You could share Christmas dinner through a webcam and pack along some holiday napkins, festive dinnerware, and a Christmas Cracker.
  • For New Years, you could pack some Happy New Year hats, a plastic champagne glass, and some noise makers.

What are your favorite cute care package ideas?

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Filed Under: Holiday Fun Tagged With: christmas, family date ideas, family fun, holiday fun, kids activities

Comments

  1. Shannon says

    December 8, 2012 at 8:22 am

    We always send care packages to our family in the USA. So of course it is full of Canadianna.

    Roots T Shirts
    Maple Syrup
    Maple leaf cream cookies
    Something Hockey related (maybe not this year)

    Thanks for the reminder. 🙂

    Reply
    • Cheryl says

      December 11, 2012 at 5:32 pm

      Oh, my hubby is so sad about no hockey this year! I’ve never heard of maple leaf cream cookies but now I’m going to have to look for some!

      Reply
  2. Brandi says

    December 8, 2012 at 9:06 am

    Care packages are so fun!! And I love that you can make it a theme of gifts or an assortment of items. People love that care packages have things they need!

    Reply
  3. Randa Derkson says

    December 8, 2012 at 9:16 am

    I love the hot chocolate idea! Skype is a beautiful thing.

    Reply
  4. Sarah Lynn says

    December 8, 2012 at 9:55 am

    I agree with Shannon – when my cousin was working at Disney World we bought her lots of Smarties and Ketchup chips…it’s funny how you miss those things abroad!

    Reply
    • Cheryl says

      December 11, 2012 at 5:31 pm

      That’s so funny – I never would have thought it would be tough to find Smarties and Ketchup chips! That’s kind of like me when I go to the US…I have to stop to eat at The Cheesecake Factory as many times as possible because we don’t have any here in Canada.

      Reply
  5. Kristen Bobbitt says

    December 8, 2012 at 11:41 am

    Love these ideas! So sweet. Especially of the little ones recording a story for grandparents. Most of my family live far away, they see lots of pics of my kids but don’t get to hear their voices often.
    Pinned It.

    Reply
  6. Liz (Woof Woof Mama) says

    December 8, 2012 at 11:56 am

    My hubby was deployed to Iraq and was there over Christmas one year. Your tips would also be great for a military care package! I actually sent him a prelit Christmas tree in my care package to him but postage cost more than the tree LOL!

    Reply
  7. pam says

    December 8, 2012 at 1:48 pm

    If someone was to send me a care package, like these I would be so happy and excited! Great ideas in this post!

    Reply
  8. Stay at Home Mom says

    December 8, 2012 at 3:23 pm

    What a fabulous idea! This is super cute! Thank you for sharing!

    Reply
  9. Denise G says

    December 8, 2012 at 9:06 pm

    Love the tips! I can tell you put a lot of thought into your gifts!

    Reply

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