My mother is very creative and artistic one year she did a chocolate theme-
My mother took gold baskets and put dark brown tissue paper, put a little bottle of chochlate liquer,3 big chocolate gold coins, and she put in a little clear nosh/peckalach kind of bag with gold stars/stripes 3 chochalate chip cookies(might be wise to get it from a bakery that makes Yoshon and put a little label on the bag of cookies stating where you bought the cookies)
red,white and blue-use any bag or cute inexpensive container you may get lucky and find a container with an american theme-put in a bag of chips that has a red outside,red loly(s),red,white and blue laffy taffy’s, if you want you can add more things like a chochlate bar whose wrapping has a red,white, or blue color.
fruit/berry theme theme-fruit candies, frut wafers,fruit tea
color themes-example blue and green get a green/blue bag and fill it with inexpensive things that have the appropriate colors.
I like shaloch manos with already prepared food in. Instead of my family eating all that junk we can actually eat something substantial before the seudah.
All the ready made food that we recieve on Purim gets eaten up very quickly!
Enjoy,have fun,be creative, don’t make yourself sick over making the perfect shalach manos!