My Baby Is Starting School With a Schultuete

September 15th, 2009

Tomorrow is CheezWaster’s first day of nursery school. I’m sort of having a little mommy crisis. My baby is off to school (sniff sniff)! I don’t know who is going to have a harder time at drop off - him or me! On my many trips to Germany as a child, I would see the stores filled with “Schultueten”. These are cones filled with treats and school supplies that children in Germany receive on their first day of school. I’ve seen some other moms that have created these for their children and I was inspired to do the same for CheezWaster. I attempted to follow the directions by Alphamom but unfortunately, no measuring with a T-square could get our triangle into a cone shape.

We started with a square of posterboard. You will have to cut some of the posterboard off to make a square. I then covered it in wrapping paper (since I destroyed my very cool neon green posterboard attempting this with a triangle shape - note to self - fold before cutting next time!). Roll into a cone shape and tape. I used clear packaging tape as you will need something sturdy to hold the posterboard.

Wrapping Paper Covered Posterboard

I then cut around the top to make the cone shape.

Cut Off Top to Make a Cone Shape

Next, you can either glue or tape in a piece of tissue paper. I folded one piece in half and taped the edges together inside the cone again using clear packaging tape.

Adding Tissue Paper for Closure

You now have your basic Schultuete cone and are ready to decorate.

Basic Cone with Tissue Paper Closure

I decorated CheezWaster’s cone with Star Wars stickers since he is a big fan and has a Star Wars backpack. You could use stickers, stamps, markers or decorative wrapping paper.

Decorated Schultuete Cone

This is what I enclosed in CheezWaster’s Schultuete - a Wow Wow Wubzy book about school, Sesame Street colored pencils, a Sesame Place pencil case with 2 Sesame Street pencils and a box of Candy Corn flavored Dots (which I picked up at Target tonight - also makes a great Halloween treat!) You can’t go too crazy with the enclosures because 1) there isn’t much room in this cone and 2) it is just a piece of posterboard and not all that sturdy.

Schultuete Treats

Insert your Schultuete treats carefully as to not rip the tissue paper on top.

Treats in the Schultuete Cone

Finally, gather the tissue paper carefully and tie on a ribbon. WA-LA - you’ve now got a super-cool, very unique gift to give your child on their first day of school. I think we’ll be doing this EVERY year for the first day of school - or at least until CheezWaster and The Destroyer are old enough to tell me what a big dork I am.

The Finished Schultuete

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