Lucky to Have You {Teacher Appreciation}

 

We had time to do one more little idea for our teachers for Teacher Appreciation Week.  Again, simple and easy.  And a free printable.  Bonus!

We printed out the tags from 3 Boys and a Dog (or you can find it here too.)  I bought some of the Lucky Charms Bars but you could buy the little cups of cereal or make fun, Lucky Charm cookies too. 

Print out the tags. I added a layer of purple cardstock behind them and tied them with ribbon. 

 

 

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Brownie Points for the Teacher {Teacher Appreciation}

Here's another fun and simple idea to do for your kid's teachers. We made some brownies and printed out these tags from Happy Home Fairy.

I wasn't quite sure how to wrap up the brownies since it's been pretty warm here lately and the brownies had a chocolate, fudge type topping (of course.)  So we went with a plastic container and taped the tags on.  Then added a little ribbon.  I'm sure a celo bag would have been "fancier", and if we would have made plain brownies it would have worked.  But I don't think the teachers are going to complain.

If you're looking for other Teacher Appreciation ideas, click on the "teacher appreciation" label on the left side of the page.  There are lots to chose from =o)

Enjoy!

 

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Hands Down Best Teacher {Teacher Appreciation Gift}

Next week is Teacher Appreciation Week. What are you doing for your teachers?  Are you in need of some fun (and simple) ideas that tell that special teacher that you are thankful for everything they do?  We have a few that were big hits with my kid's teachers.

Here's one of the gifts we're doing this year.  It's simple and fun and I love how they turned out.  

The printables can be found on Eighteen 25 or here.  They are perfect!  I printed them out and then on my Cricut machine, I printed out hand prints.  You could also trace your child's hand print and use that.  Attach to a bottle of liquid hand soap (or even hand lotion) and voila! 

Tell your teacher that they are Hands Down the Best Teacher Around!

Other great Teacher Appreciation Ideas

Thanks for a Tea-Riffic School Year

You're the Star of Our School

Giant Pencils (from Pringles Cans) Filled with Goodies

We Just Want to Espresso Our Thanks

You're the Write Teacher For Me

I don't know a teacher out there who doesn't want to be appreciated.  What will you do this year?

 

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Money Bouquet

 

We needed another birthday idea for one of my daughter's friends. My daughter wanted to make another candy bouquet because it was such a huge hit. But you know me. You can't make something twice because where is a blog post in that?! Right?  And what do you give the little 8 year old girl who has everything?  Seriously, everything!  Why, cash, of course!

Seven Thirty Three had such a cute idea, we had to do it.  And I think it turned out so great!  And it was a giant hit!

You can make it as elaborate as you would like - using $5's and $10's, etc.  Or smaller and still equally unique.

Supplies needed:

* dollar bills (as many as you would like to use)

* sticks (I just used wooden skewers)

* tape or glue dots

* chocolate gold coins

* vase or mug

* floral foam

* tissue paper

Directions:

Fold each bill accordion style.

 

 

Fold the accordion in half and tape the 2 sides of the bill together.

 

 

Do the same to the other side.

 

 

Tape onto a stick.  Glue dots work great, or you can use tape.

 

 

Use a glue dot and glue a chocolate coin to the front of the dollar "flower".

 

 

My daughter was a great helper!

 

 

Wrap the floral foam in tissue paper and insert into the vase or mug.  Insert the sticks into the floral foam.  Add tissue paper between sticks and there you go - a Money Bouquet.

 

 

I don't know about you, but I'd take one for my birthday =o)

 

 

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Spring Time Candy Holders

 

I saw this idea years ago and thought it was pretty cute. Simple (which always catches my attention) and different. It's a candy holder. Cute, right?

 

I bought these little feeders at Wilco. Yep, you read that right. Feeders! They are chicken (or chick) feeders. At least I think that's what they are called. I'm not really a country, farm animal girl. Don't get me wrong.  I'll take a good looking cowboy anyday =o)  But knowing my way around a feed store is totally foreign to me.  So you should be proud of me for knowing what these bad boys even are.

 

Back to the candy holders...  You can buy them in plain metal (or is it aluminum?  Dang.  See?  I know nothing.)  And then you can spray paint them all sorts of fun colors.  Or you can buy these plastic ones in fun, Spring time colors.  We went for the plastic ones.   

 

 

They come with a plastic container thing.  (It's all so scientific in my house.)  But you can also use a canning jar if you want it smaller and/or clear. 

 

 

Take them home and clean them.  (You never know what strange farm animal nosed their way around them.  It's a feed store after all.  And then fill them with your favorite candy.  We went with Easter M&Ms because they were so pretty.  My daughter, of course, wanted hers to be filled with gum balls.

 

 

Mine is going on my desk at work.  The kids at my work will love it!

 

 

 

 

 

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Edible Easter Baskets

I'm always looking for fun ideas of things to make for teacher gifts.  Nothing huge, but little "you are awesome" type gifts so they know how much we appreciate them.  This was perfect.  Easy (super easy) and fun and made of candy.  Is there anything better?

Edible Easter Baskets

Source: Mrs. Happy Homemaker

* glue gun

* card stock

* 4 boxes (or bags) of Easter type candy

* Easter "grass" or shredded paper

* Easter candy to fill baskets with

You can either tape the boxes together or use a hot glue gun.  I opted for the hot glue gun because it's so darn strong.  If I had used bags of candy, though, I might have used packing tape.

Glue the boxes together.  When the glue dries, flip over the box and tape a piece of card stock on the bottom.  You don't want everything falling out =o)

I cut a piece of card stock to use as a handle and glued that in place as well.

Now fill with whatever you would like.  You can make it as full and elaborate as you want.  We just wanted a little Happy Easter Basket (nothing huge) so we just did this.

What do you think?  If one of my students brought me something like this I think I would probably feint.  My students don't bring me treats =o(  The joys of being a school counselor.

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Candy Bouquet

My daughter was invited to a birthday party last weekend.  The little girl said she didn't want any gifts.  Instead, she wanted money to help out the local pet store that recently burned to the ground.  What a sweet thing!  So we put some money in an envelope and my daughter used one of our Birthday Cake Postcards as the card (which was a huge hit.)  But we wanted to give her something.  

After searching through Pinterest, we decided to make her a candy bouquet.  Perfect, right???  There are a ton of different ones out there but we thought the tutorial on Thrifty Fun looked fun (and easy.)

You will need:

* 4 large boxes of candy (all the same size)

* Styrofoam 

* tissue paper

* hot glue gun

* card stock

* skewers

* candy bars (assorted sizes)

To make the "vase", glue the 4 large boxes of candy together.  I used a hot glue gun to make sure they wouldn't fall apart.

I cut out a square piece of thick card stock to glue on the bottom.  I was a little worried it would all fall out the bottom when we picked it up.

Glue the skewers on the candy bars.  We bought the skewers that were flat on one end and then pointy on the other.  Perfect for this project.

They should look like this.

Put a piece of tissue paper around your Styrofoam piece and slide it into the "vase".

After the glue has cooled, insert the skewers into the Styrofoam.  I added a little more tissue paper in between the skewers to cover up the Styrofoam.

Voila!  A candy bouquet. 

My daughter's friend loved it!

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