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Dustpan theme mishloach manot

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dans99

Tue, Jan 19 2010, 8:06 pm

I found really cute dust pan/brush sets that I was gonna fill with food and wrap up to give for mishloach manot. I was thinking of doing like a "clean" theme and write "hope you have a 'neat' purim." I was wondering if anyone has ideas for foods/candies that would go along with this theme as I cant seem to think of any. Let me know if you can come up with anything!

sunshine!

Tue, Jan 19 2010, 8:59 pm

you can make these
http://www.pastrywiz.com/daily.....6.htm

An idea I saw was to bake a batch of cookies and crumble some up and put the whole thing on the dustpan. Write this poem (or a different version of it)
While baking you some cookies,
there was knocking at the door.
As I jumped up to answer it,
the pan fell to the floor.

I stood among the cookie crumbs
and wondered what to do.
The day was late, the time was short,
I had no gift for you.
I bent and swept the cookies up
into a small dustpan.
A friend like you, I told myself,
would surely understand.

The gifts that matter most in life
are those the heart does send.
With that in mind, I give to you
these cookies from a friend.

Ronit

Tue, Jan 19 2010, 9:09 pm

If you can't tie it into purim, you can always write s/t about pesach.

Sunshine that poem is cute, & those cookies are adorable. I would never crumble cookiest tho- ech.

shanie5

Tue, Jan 19 2010, 11:30 pm

if u get the pull 'n peel twizzlers, and unwrap the tops-they look like brooms. I think I did that for my wizard of oz theme-about 15 years ago..........

MiracleMama

Tue, Jan 19 2010, 11:54 pm

Maybe I'm weird. The idea of getting food in a dustpan - even nice food, even in a clean and new dustpan - is icky to me.
But on the upside I guess people will have something useful when the food is gone.

LeahW

Wed, Jan 20 2010, 1:09 am

MiracleMama wrote:

I agree. It sounds cute in theory, but in practice people may be grossed out.

chocolate moose

Wed, Jan 20 2010, 10:29 am

So wrap the food first.

pinkbubbles

Wed, Jan 20 2010, 10:35 am

Sorry but I think it is a little strange.. I am very clean and even if the food was wrapped it would feel weird.

Ronit

Wed, Jan 20 2010, 2:59 pm

If it's unwrapped I'd also find it icky.

But what's the problem if the food is nicely wrapped?

greeneyes

Wed, Jan 20 2010, 4:38 pm

We did a "pesach cleaning kit" mishloach manos in a dustpan when I was a kid. I'm trying to remember what we put inside.

Here's what I remember:

sponge cake
a bottle of spring water labled "ammonia"
a candy shpritz bottle labled "windex" (do they still make those wierd candy sprays?)

I can't remember anything else, this was years ago.

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