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Christmas Snowman Candy Bar Printable

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This tutorial is for a Free Christmas printable. In this tutorial, you can re-cover Hershey Chocolate bars to create a cute Christmas chocolate. These little Christmas Chocolate wrappers are perfect for handing out Chocolates are School as Christmas gifts. You can right-click and print the image directly here.

Christmas is a wonderful time of year. It’s a time of family, love, and of course, crafts! Making Christmas crafts with children can be an incredibly special and memorable experience.

My favorite Christmas craft for children was to re-cover Hershey Chocolate bars with festive holiday designs. It was so much fun to watch their faces light up with joy as they picked out their favorite paper designs – from cheerful snowmen to festive reindeer. Not only was it a great way to get into the Christmas spirit, but it also gave us a chance to spend quality time together as a family.

We would start by carefully tearing off the labels from the Hershey Chocolate bars and setting them aside. Then, we’d choose our favorite designs of paper and cut them down to the right size. Once we had our supplies ready, it was time to get creative! We would carefully glue the paper onto the chocolate bars and add a few festive decorations, like small bells or ribbons. It was so much fun to see the chocolate bars transform from something ordinary into something magical.

After we were done making our chocolate bars, we would carefully wrap them up in colorful wrapping paper and give them to our friends and family as gifts. It was such a special way to show our appreciation for them during the holiday season.

Making Christmas crafts with children is something that I’ll always cherish. It was a great way to spend quality time together and create something unique and special that we could give to our loved ones. Every time I see a Hershey Chocolate bar, I’m reminded of those special memories.

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Overseas Yarn Companies Pause Shipments to US

With last week’s end to the de minimis rule for shipping in the United States, several European yarn brands have indicated they will pause shipping to the states until rules on exactly what and how tariff payments are to be collected are ironed out. 

The de minimis rule allowed packages with a value less than $800 to be shipped into the United States without paying import taxes. With the repeal of that rule, tariffs ranging from 10 to 50 percent of the product’s value, depending on the country of origin, have to be paid. (Manufacturers or consumers could also pay a flat fee of $80 to $200 per shipment.)

More than 30 countries said they would stop some or all mail shipments to the United States temporarily while the new rules are ironed out. 

In the meantime, yarn companies including Knitting for Olive, which is based in Denmark, UK’s Jamieson & Smith and French company De Rerum Natura are a few who have said they will stop shipping directly to American consumers. 

Yarn stores may still be able to receive wholesale orders from companies that have stopped shipping directly to consumers, but that yarn is still going to be more expensive than it was before tariffs increased. 

As yarn expert Clara Parkes has noted (and is quoted in this story from Slate  about de minimis and its effect on knitters) the vast majority of yarn sales in the world probably go to American knitters, so companies the world over will take a hit if they can’t ship to America or more Americans stop buying as much yarn because it is more expensive. This Washington Post story notes that increased tariffs and shipping costs could make a ball of yarn that was $16 cost more like $80 now. 

And while it’s possible to buy American yarn (I have a post all about American made yarn over on Our Daily Craft) it’s not exactly inexpensive either, for the most part, and there are very few mills set up to spin yarn in America. Even with foreign made yarn being harder to come by and/or more expensive, that’s probably not enough incentive for people to want to open more mills in the states. 

Independent yarn stores are struggling to determine what they can buy and have shipped to the states without being cost prohibitive for their shoppers and while still making a profit themselves. 

While there’s hope that some of the tariffs will go away with court rulings saying that a supposed national emergency couldn’t be used to increase tariffs, we’re all kind of waiting and seeing right now. I for one am knitting from stash as much as possible, though I know that doesn’t help the knitting industry as a whole. If you’re an American knitter I’d love to hear what your plans are for getting any yarn you may need in the immediate future.