According to my calculations, we have only one more week until Teacher Appreciation Day/Week. You know those hard-working teachers need a boost, especially at this point in the school year (anyone starting to get as excited for Summer as I am?!), and it’s kind of fun to put together a little something for the kids to take to school. I made Countdown to Summer blocks for my children’s teachers this year, which is one of my favorite ideas. For those of you that may want something a little more simple/easier to put together (the blocks aren’t hard, but they do take a bit of time and prep) I thought I’d do a quick round-up and recap of the teacher appreciation ideas I have used in the past few years.
In 2011 I put together a little kit of office supplies and candy for the teacher. The PTO at the school had a standard gift idea list – one day was a card, one day candy, and one day was a flower. I went along with those too, but wanted to add a more personal gift as well.
Original inspiration (and instructions) for the project found here. I chose a smaller size bead organizer from Walmart and grabbed a few coordinating office supplies, which I divided between the two kits (one for the teacher, one for the assistant), and of course added a little sugar to finish it off. I was shopping with both kids for the candy and couldn’t concentrate, or I would have made sure the wrappers were blue or green to go with my color scheme too. 😉
2012 followed much the same format from the school – cards on one day, chocolate on another, flowers on a third, then I did a little something on my own that wasn’t part of the suggested list.
I picked up a bunch of yummy smelling hand sanitizer (in pocket sizes) and holders at one of Bath and Body Works big sales knowing it would come in handy for something like this. The tag says “you are scent-sational.” The printables for this one and the chocolate came from the Eighteen25 blog and can be found here.
2013 was once again cards, chocolate, flowers and I added in a set of countdown to summer blocks in fun black, white, and red patterns.
I added the option to count down to the beginning of next school year – just for the fun of it. These were an absolute hit with the teachers and I have repeated the idea again this year – see earlier post).
Last year (2014) – chocolate, cards, flowers (tiny pots with seeds this time) and the personal gift was altered clipboards.
I found the owl printable card first (Printable found here) and decided to go with that as the theme.
I modified the printable water bottle labels found here and used that for the tags on the rest of the items. The tag on the flowers reads “Thanks for helping me grow. Love, ___ ”
The chocolate: The tag reads “you deserve chocolate! Love, ___”
And finally, a more personal gift from the kids. I like to get a little creative with these, not only to give the teachers a little variety but hopefully they also get the message that we participate in Teacher Appreciation week not just because we are asked to, but because we really do appreciate their contribution as teachers to the lives of our children.
I took Plain Jane clipboards
and turned them into something fun, pretty, and personal.
The tag reads “You’re just write, teacher. Love, ____”
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