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What To Put In A Fall Care Package For College Students

It’s time! Your college student is settled into dorm life and working hard on papers, speeches, and keeping up with laundry. You have settled into an empty or emptier nest and are wondering What To Put In A Fall Care Package to let your awesome kid know how much you love them!

We showed you How To Send College Care Packages The Smart Way and now we’re ready to share what to put in a Fall Box along with fun fall printables to use in that box!

Box with printable fall decor on the box flaps.

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Fall snacks and goodies in a Fall Care Package box.

What To Put In A Fall Box For College Students

Preferably, anything you put in a box for your college student should be something you know they will use, eat, or love. Space is a huge commodity for students living in dorms so needless stuff will be a waste and end up in the trash.

Anything you put in a box for your college student should be something you know they will use, eat, or love.

Listed below are Fall Care Package Ideas to get your creative juices flowing. These are the items I sent to my college freshman!

  • Organic Granola Cereal, Pumpkin Seed + Flax – My daughter has said it is much easier to eat breakfast in her room before she heads off to class. This Pumpkin Seed + Flax Granola will be a fun fall breakfast for her!
  • Nabisco Belvita Pumpkin Spice Breakfast Biscuits – These looked festive. I have no idea if they’re any good. I’ll let you know what I hear!
  • Apple CiderA warm drink on a cold fall night. What’s better than that?
  • Mrs. Meyer’s Fall-Scented Hand Soap – They can use it and it’s festive! My daughter requested hand soap so … there you go!
  • Pumpkin Seeds – YUM! What a great snack to munch on as they work on papers, tucked up at their desks, under their loft beds.
  • Lentil Soup – There’s nothing like a bowl of soup on a rainy fall night. Especially when you can’t fathom a walk to the cafeteria in the pouring rain.
  • Kind Minis – We sent a few Kind Bars in our daughter’s first box and had a request for more! This time we’ve sent full-size Kind Bars and Kind Minis!
  • 4X4 Pumpkin – This 4X4 Pumpkin is handmade! If you don’t want to go to the trouble to make a 4X4 Pumpkin, you might want to try your hand learning how to make sweater pumpkins or a mini pumpkin will do! It’s just a little something to put on the windowsill that says Fall!
  • Nerf Football – Because what says fall more than football? Give your college student a reason to take a break and get out and play with their new friends! Here’s another option: Foam Football
  • Miniature Candy – Bite-size candy fills the Fall Care Package in quite nicely!
  • Microwave Popcorn – Get Cozy Fall Popcorn Tags in the Fall Care Package Printables below.
  • Activity Pages – A double-sided activity page and a coloring page are in the Care Package Printables below.
  • Note – It’s always nice to send a note in the care package you create! (Fall Notes are included in the Care Package Printables below.)

You may also be interested in Thanksgiving Care Package Ideas.

Fall Care Package Printables

Print the Fall Care Package Printables on card stock or sticker paper and adhere to the inside flaps of your Fall Box!

View of printable Fall Care Package printables.
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You DID IT! You created a Fall Box your college student will be super happy to have. A box that will take them away from the busy and put a smile on their face! You ROCK!

Frequently Asked Questions

The best college care packages have a good mix of practical items that will get used along with festive and maybe even silly things that will put a smile on your studentโ€™s face! Read more here: What Do College Students Want In A Care Package?

On the Domestic Shipping Prohibitions, Restrictions, & HAZMAT Guidelines on USPS, you will find airbags, ammunition, explosives, gasoline, liquid mercury, and marijuana are prohibited. That is common sense but domestically restricted items are worth taking a look at. From this list, I found it interesting to learn that hand sanitizer and lithium batteries are limited to surface transportation and can only be mailed through USPS Ground Advantage or Parcel Select.

According to Adopt A Platoon, pork products, alcohol, pornographic materials, liquid hand sanitizer, or aerosol cans (they may explode) should not be sent in a care package to military members. Do not send products in glass containers (unless they are bubble-wrapped a few times). Package all food items that may leak in zip-lock bags and put all liquid items in a zip-lock bag. Chocolate should not be mailed during the summer months.

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