Not Your Average Cheese and Crackers...

I know it is a tad bit late, but this idea can easily be adapted for any occasion! This fun cheese and cracker tray is super cheap and completely adorable. I took it to a Valentine's party in an elementary classroom. The kids went crazy over the cheese on sticks. 

I got the fun tray at my favorite store for these types of projects, The Dollar Tree. 

I made the heart sticks by cutting out a bunch of small hearts using, you guessed it, my Cricut. The Circut has a great function called "fill page". When selected, the machine automatically duplicates the image across the entire page. No copying and pasting required and your shapes are all exactly the same size. I found packages of 12x12 Valentine's Day paper in the dollar section at Target, such a great deal.

Using my hot-glue gun i glued the sticks between two hearts. When I was at the store, they were out of tooth picks, my original plan. Instead I used coffee straws and cut them to the size a wanted. They worked great. 

For the center piece in the middle i cut out a large hearts and decorated them with writing and glitter. These were also glued to a drink straw. Because the tray is plastic, I hot-glued the stick to the tray. The glue comes off easily, while still holding up To hide this and make it a little more fancy, I cut pieces of ribbon and filled the center compartment. 

Get creative! You can take this idea and adapt it for any holiday or theme party of your own.