St. Nicholas Chocolate Coins

I just finished adding this post to my other blog, Shower of Roses, but thought I would share it with you all here at Catholic Cuisine as well!

Every year on the feast of St. Nicholas, we give our children Gold Coins, Holy Cards, and a yearly "note from St. Nicholas" telling the children what they need to work on between now and Christmas.

For the past few years I have wanted to order the beautiful St. Nicholas chocolates I have seen online, but just haven't been able to spend the money (It all goes towards books, if you hadn't noticed! lol!)  and have settled for repackaging the dollar bags of chocolates from the local grocery store.  (You can see an example in last years post for the Feast of St. Nicholas.) 

I passed on ordering them once again this year, but decided to come up with my own alternative.  I am so excited!!!

I cropped some of our favorite images of St. Nicholas to fit on the face of the large 1 1/2" Chocolate Coins (The bags of coins are available for $1.00 per bag at many grocery stores, including the Dollar Store,  or you can purchase a 12 pack for $12.18 at Amazon right now.), created a word document with all the images adding an optional border to the images, cut them all out, and then glued them to the front of the coins.

Didn't they turn out pretty?!?

I thought I would share my document with you all as an early Christmas Present in case any of you would like to do the same for your children.

St. Nicholas Coins

Making these really got my mind spinning with all the variations I could make so I called Hubby and asked him to bring home a few more bags of coins!

So, as a bonus, here are a few other documents I created.  Yes, I stayed up WAY too late! ;)

 

Christmas Coins

O Antiphon Coins

Jesse Tree Coins

I made our Jesse Tree Coins using the smaller 1" coins.   These would be a great alternative for ornaments (to go along with the readings and coloring pages) for a Jesse Tree if you attached a small piece of ribbon to hang them with and then they could be enjoyed on Christmas!   I think I will add the set I made to this year's Jesse Tea.

NOTE:  For 1" Coins, just use the above documents printed at 70%!

I hope some of you are able to use this idea!  As always you are more than welcome to link to this post, but I do ask that, if you do, you link directly here and not to the documents at Scribd.  That way, if the documents ever need to be moved, your links won't be broken. Also, I always ask that my pictures are not reposted elsewhere without prior permission, but in this case, I will allow the one picture at the very top of the post to be shared if you wish.  Thank you for your consideration in this, we so appreciate all of our dear visitors here at Catholic Cuisine!

I hope your Advent is off to a very blessed start!