"I purchase pencils, erasers, stickers...and place them inside of empty paper towel tubes and toilet paper tubes... I cut the paper towel tube down to the length of the pencils...so each kid at Halloween or Christmas...gets the same thing and I don't have to hand out tons of candy. I wrap in leftover christmas paper scraps from the previous year...or paper that I stamped designs onto...and then wrap/roll the tube like a tootsie roll with curling ribbon tying off the ends. For the classroom need about 30 for Halloween handouts...I usually need about 75 tubes....and we are recycling"