Chocolate Frog party favors

I finished the chocolate frogs for my son's Harry Potter themed first birthday party. I could have taken the easy way out and bought them for $2.99 each (?!) but since I needed thirty that would have added up to $90 for just frogs. I needed to go cheap so I figured I could make my own. In the end I spent about $23 total (or $16 if you don't count the baggies and favor boxes).

I found a soap mold at Hobby Lobby that had three frogs and three turtles on it for $2.99. I used their 40% off coupon and got it for $1.79 (woo-hoo!). I went back the next week and bought another so I'd have two molds. Again, this is why I started early.

At Joann Fabric they had their Wilton Candy Melts on sale for $2.24 a bag. I used three bags to make 30 frogs.

I had small ziploc bags left over from a baby shower I did for my sister in law. I think I paid $1.50 for 100 bags. I put the frogs in the ziploc bags because I was making them three months in advance and I wanted them to stay fresh. The white boxes were left over favor boxes from my wedding. It's amazing how these frogs just came together. I found a microwavable bottle with a squeeze top in the candy making section at Hobby Lobby. It really helped make this project a cinch.

I bought 2" square labels at Wal-Mart and downloaded a pre-made template from Avery's website. Then I searched online for a chocolate frog label and put it in the center of the Avery template. My favor boxes are 2" so I trimmed the labels a little so they would fit on the tops of the boxes better.

And voila! Chocolate frogs!

I plan on doing a nice photo shoot with all the favors once they are all finished. Up next - Bertie Bott's Beans!