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DIY Valentine’s Day Treats and Gifts

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It’s one of my favorite times of year – Valentine’s Day! I love everything about Valentine’s Day, the cards, the fun crafts, the kids exchanging valentines and, of course, the chocolate!

Hershey's KISSES Sweetest Memory

This year, the kids helped me make a couple of cute little Valentine’s Day gifts from Hershey’s Kisses. This one is for my husband, who loves the milk chocolate kisses as much as my grandmother did. He’s always getting caught taking them from the dishes before the guests can even see them or enjoy them, so I know he’ll love having the candy all for himself.  

To put it together, we just used an empty chocolate box and filled it with Kisses. The kids helped “taste-testing” the chocolates and helped fill the box. It was an easy project even younger kids could help with.

My husband doesn’t love all of the chocolate varieties that normally come in a sampler, so he was thrilled to open it and see only Kisses.  

Hershey's KISSES Sweetest Memory

And these are for my daughters’ friends. I let them make special Valentine’s Day gifts instead of cards. We wanted to do something small and cute and they turned out really well, I think.

We just added Kisses to cute jars, tied a red and white ribbon around the top and then attached personalized tags. Super simple to make and the girls were thrilled to be able to pass them out instead of little cards.

Hershey's KISSES Sweetest Memory

Happy Valentine’s Day!

 

 

Comments

  1. I think my best memory would be sharing with my kids for the first time and the looks of yummyness on their faces. 🙂

  4. i went to a military boarding school and every month i would get a care package from home and right on top was always a bag of hershey kisses my moms way of kissing me long distance

  5. When I was a child i was the depresion. if we got candy once a year we was so happy. The first I remember when I got to make the choice, I picked hershey kisses. There were 4 of us kids. I am 72 now and still remember.

  6. when my sister and her family moved out of state, her 6 year old sent me a balloon and some kisses in a box!  it was so sweet!

  7.  when we would go to my grandparents Christmas day, open presents and get to our stocking…hershey kisses in the toe every year! i miss my grandparnts and being a kid so much! but i will always have the memories

  8. I always get Hershey Kisses around the holidays…so many different options to choose from, but my favorites are the Mint Truffle and Candy Cane!! 

  9. when my daughter lived here with my grandsaughter.. on valentines day one year i left a trail of hersheys kisses leading from one room all the way thru 4 rooms leading into my bedroom with the last one right in front of me.. and for all the kisses she picked up. .i had to get a kiss hehehehe needless to say there were tons of nana kisses given that day!! 

  11. One of my favorite memories was growing up for every holiday at our house there were always kisses for treats! At Christmas in glass jars shaped like Christmas trees or at Valentines in heart shaped bowls – just simple happy memories. 🙂

  12. I have a few, my hubby gave me a big Hershey kiss one valentine! Another year was a big red heart tin full of kisses and i still have the tin. And the 3rd memory i had a secret santa at work he was a huge KISS fan (the band)  but i included Hershey kisses in his gift lol. He thought it was funny.

  15. My favorite chocolate treat is Hershey’s Kisses so every week my fiance buys me some.   It is so sweet!

  20. Love it when my son sees that I have bought a bag and he exclaims “wow, that’s my favorite!”

  23. When I was a little girl my Grandmother always kept Hershey’s Kisses in a cookie jar. Every time we went to visit her she let us take two or three. They seemed so special back then. People didn’t eat candy as much or as often in those days….

  25. i remember getting one hug Hershey kiss as a kid … it took me forever to eat it all – shared it with lots of folks. ( :

  28. I remember eating them as a child. My brother and I didn’t get very much candy. When we got Hershey Kisses, we enjoyed them so much.

  29. I remember getting Hershey kisses from the cutest little boy when we were in elementary school. Thanks for the chance to win!
    mrsmchappell at gmail dot com

  33. I love putting kisses in my daughter’s lunchbox to cheer up her day 🙂
    Marysa {at} marysa {dot} com

  34. my daughter is starting school in a couple of days and im making cupcakes for her to bring on her bday and putting a hershey kiss on each one.

  36. My sweetest memory was my coworkers just made me a huge jar
    filled with kisses to kick cancers butt!

  38. My favorite memory is making the peanut butter cookies with the kiss in the middle with my mom when I was little!

  39. my mother loved all kinds of candy and we both loved Hersheys Kisses. I especially love the ones with Almonds in them

    • High school band trip, and getting a huge hershey kiss from my best friend – trying to finish it while on the trip – it was impossible, but fun trying.

  43. My favorite Hershey’s Kisses memories are when my mom used to put them in my lunchbox as a kid. She always seemed to know when I needed a little extra sweetness.
    jtmagmom73(at)gmail(dot)com

  44. Kisses are my BFF’s favorite candy which inspired me to do the 12 days of Christmas. day 11: qq Bags of Chocolate that included a 3 lb bag of Kisses. Not to mention I have a bag full of Kisses for her V-day present.

  45. we moved into a new house on valentines day and my mom had left this candy on my bed in my new bedroom

  48. My favorite memories involving Hershey Kisses are with my children. We are constantly looking for a reason to incorporate them into our baking techniques. 

  49. My husband bought me a giant hershey kiss on valentine’s one year.  It took me months to eat it, but I love hershey’s kisses my favorite kind of chocolate.

  50. I remember like it was yesterday but many years ago when I was still a child my Mom would sprinkle candy kisses i with whatever gifts were wrapped for us.She’d have them in our stockings as well. It never fails when Christmas rolls around I don’t think of kisses and my Mom. 🙂
    Thanks for the chance to win.
    Carol L.

  51. my son made me a dog with hersheys kisses when he was in kindergarten! it was so cute! i still have it!

  60. We would share a bag of Hershey Kisses as a family when I was growing up. I still do this with my family!!

  61. Love the picture of the kisses in the Valentine box…I got that one year…love Hershey’s  Kisses!!! I also went through a tootsie roll phase and got a Valentine box full of them one year  🙂

  63. I make my peanut butter cookies and put the kisses on top! I learned this from my mother did it with my kids and now they are making them.

  64. My best memory is when I gave them to my aging mother for Christmas . She opened the package and the grin on her face was like a childs on Christmas day 🙂 She always had a dish of them on her coffee table 🙂

  65. When I was little we would use them to count down the days until my dad got home from the Navy. Got to eat one every day until there were none left and the jar was empty and he came home. 🙂

  68. The first time I got Hershey kisses in my stocking and didn’t have to share them with anyone else was the best memory.

  69. My favorite memory is just grabbing a bag of hershey kisses and munching on them chatting with my sister having girl talk. We still do that to this day, because we love chocolate and have become best friends!! 

  73. Believing my grandmother when she told me I was the only one who knew how to add the hershey’s kiss in the center of the the sugar cookie.

  75. My favorite Hershey Kisses memory is from the 70’s when I was a kid when you could tour the real Hershey, PA chocolate factory (You can’t do that anymore) and seeing (and smelling) all the millions of Hershey Kisses on the conveyor belt.

  76. My littlest son, stealing a handful of Hershey Kisses, and runnin away to another room with them !

  77. I don’t have a Hershey’s memory, sadly. I do know that they are always loved in this house.

  78. When my husband and I were engaged college students, I came home from a long day of school to find my bed full of Hersheys hugs and kisses and a sweet note from my fiance about how he couldn’t wait to spend a lifetime showering me with hugs and kisses.

  80. I was out on a charter boat fishing , it was a very long day and I was hungry when my significan other pulled 2 hershey kisses out, we shared them

  85. My favorite memory from Hershey’s would have to be ANY time that three generations of my family sit down together after a meal. Grandmother, Mother, my sister and myself 🙂

  93. I remember making peanut butter blossom cookies with my son, so he could take them as a treat to school.

  94. Visiting grandma’s house at Christmas, she would always have beautiful decorated bowls full of Kisses! Happy times

  97. The first Hershey’s Kiss I received in grammar school from the one boy I had a big, second-grade-crush  on will always be my favorite memory. It was wrapped in gold and made me feel like a million dollars.

  106. When my grandmother used to give them tucked inside a pair of slippers she had knitted every year for Christmas.

  108. I used Hershey’s Kisses to give my grandson a math lesson. Addition was interesting, but when we started subtraction, my grandson really loved it. He and I got to eat the ones we subtracted.

  109. I have very fond memories of making christmas cookies using kisses with my sister and my mom

  110. My Mom is in a nursing home due to advanced dementia, but her eyes always light up when I bring her a bag of her favorite candy – Hershey Kisses. I always bring an extra bag for the nurses on her floor.

  111. Baking cookies with my mom when I was a kid and my job was unwrapping the kisses and placing them in the center.

  115. I remember winning a giant hershey kiss from my teacher when I was kid because i had the best score on a spelling test.

  117. My favorite Hershey’s Kisses memory is when my sweetheart – now my husband – made me peanut butter cookies with a kiss in the middle when we were both in nursing school and had no money for Valentines Day. 

  120. My boyfriend and I recently ventured into the kitchen and made cookies that included a Hershey’s Kiss middle while listening to Christmas music (it was a little after Christmas). It was so cliche but TOO fun ^.^

    Thanks for this awesome giveaway 🙂

  126. Share your favorite or sweetest Hershey’s KISSES memory in the blog comments section below.

    i once ate a whokle bag when i was 7-6 years old..mistake,but they were good

  127. I love the fruit flavored Hershey’s kisses – but have no self control – just can’t leave them for anyone else.

  130. My favorite memory is my boyfriend giving me a heart-shaped box filled with Hershey’s Kisses!

  131. My Grandmother always had the red and green wrapped ones around for Christmas
    annabella @ centurytel dot net

  139. For Valentine’s Day in my high school, we put Hershey Kisses on tables, but noone ate them, so we (the Student Council) just took them home and ate them. 🙂

  141. My favorite KISS memory is lifting up the mattress in my sons room and seeing all the shiny silver wrappers he hid there while sneaking candy at night.

  142. We didn’t have hershey kisses where I grew up so no memories. I really like the white/milk choc swirl kisses though.

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