Depends on the time I have 1 term I made fruit skewers with cut out shapes of different fruits drizzled in chocolate, took a while to make and the kids loved them. Last time girls had to take savoury so I bought 2 big bags of pop corn and the kids enjoyed that and it all went too! This term Im doing mini mars cars with teddy bear biscuit drivers, quick but cute.
Do what you feel like on the day the kids will enjoy anything if its a treat. This time of year there is normally a heap of other baking and things to do. I have to remake my shortbread as DD2 dropped the box on the floor and now we have short bread chunks not biscuits! I might turn them into hedgehog slice or something lol
I usually bake my most basic, simple and quick to make bickie recipe or cut up a watermelon and oranges. Both usually go in about 10mins! Neither cost very much and neither take too much time. As for the tupperware issue, I use disposable trays. I don't care if I get it back or not.
depends what it is for - we're not up to school yet but for playgroup i will bake because it's a close group & only say 12 of us. DS also goes to a music playgroup that is much larger & the first time i baked cupcakes & not that many got eaten so now i just buy something to take. i wasn't sure whether it was because they didn't look tasty () or whether it was just people don't know each other very well & didn't want to eat things made by people they didn't know...ITMS?
i don't think you have to make something - because baking isn't everyone's 'thing' anyways.
I usually bake. I kind of figure I am a SAHM so I have no excuse and I also enjoy it too.
Upon saying that this year for both class parties I did something a bit slacker which I knew would go down a treat. It is the easiest thing and only takes 10 mins and looks like you have gone to so much effort!
Buy 2-3 packets of royal chocolate biscuits (arnotts), pack of jaffas, pack of spearmint leave lollies and a tub of betty crocker icing. Cut spearmint leaves in half. Place a dob of icing on top of each biscuit, a jaffa in the centre (almost like a nipple effect) and a half spearmint leave kind of attached to the jaffa. They look like mini christmas puddings and parents and kids alike love them! And sometimes, just sometimes I don't care that for once my kids are eating processed stuff. They look good and they are easy, thats all I care about it!!!
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) or whether it was just people don't know each other very well & didn't want to eat things made by people they didn't know...ITMS? 
) and a half spearmint leave kind of attached to the jaffa. They look like mini christmas puddings and parents and kids alike love them! And sometimes, just sometimes I don't care that for once my kids are eating processed stuff. They look good and they are easy, thats all I care about it!!!
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