my kids are dressing as smilies, and everything im putting in is black/yellow and smiley- choc cupcakes with yellow frosting and black jell for the face, yellow fruit gems, and maybe if i have time yellow chocolate lollies
Last year we did all purple foods (for malchus), grape juice, purple laffy taffy purple plums, and of course prune hamantashen (made from the dried purple plums). This year I am just doing very simple shalach manos, two foods of different brachos, and spending the extra money I saved, on more matanos l’evyonim instead.
To me, this whole idea of themes for mishloach manos is absurd. At most, I would follow one color so it looks pretty but what’s wrong with no theme at all?
It’s really funny to me. When I was growing up my mom O”H always made the same shalach manos, which included two or three of her incredible homemade hamantashen, a couple of incredible homemade Toll House cookies (the chips were still pareve in those days), a bag of potato chips, a mini bottle of grape juice and maybe some chocolate (like Hersheys miniatures). All this she put on a paper plate and covered it either with foil or with saran wrap, added a note saying who the shalach manos was from, and that was that. Everyone always loved her shalach manos.
heres a theme i did last year, basically we dressed up in sanitation uniforms, and the shalach manos was little garbage cans filled with “junk” food :D:D:D