First, I bought 8 packages of Bertie Bott's Beans from jellybelly.com. I wanted to have a couple of the gross flavors to put in with regular jelly beans to make the 30 party favors.
I emptied all the boxes and sorted the beans by flavor. Let me warn you.. There are A LOT of gross flavored beans in the Bertie Bott's mix. The gray, light blue, orange, brown, white, and green piles are all gross flavors. I ended up with enough to make four all gross packs and put four gross beans into each favor pack. The means there were about 200 gross beans out of eight packs of Every Flavor Beans. If I'd of known then I would have only ordered about four boxes.
Next we have the packaging for my party favors. I was trying to keep it cheap so I saved thirty of Axel's baby food containers (shown above). I spray painted them all a pale blue (I think the color was Ocean Breeze) then packed the jelly beans mixed with the Bertie Bott's beans. I ended up buying four different brands of jelly beans and mixing them all together in a big bowl then filling each container with the assorment. By starting early I was able to get a bunch of jelly beans from the Easter candy section. Then I wrapped the containers with decorative tape I bought from Target and made labels to stick on the tops.
And voila! My version of Bertie Bott's beans. The labels are kinda simple, but I like it. I tried putting images and getting fancier with the labels but I didn't like them with the pale blue containers. I ended up wasting 21 labels so if you do this them print them up on regular paper and see how they look first.
Last we'll have Licorice Wands.
