Teacher Present

I decided to go ahead and give John's preschool teacher a gift the first week of school. I really don't want to be a brown-noser, but I thought John's teacher might like to feel appreciated the first week of school. Plus I used materials I had at home so it just took up a little of my time to put together.

I saw a monogram made of buttons on pinterest and thought it would be easy enough to make. Here is how mine turned out.



This is how I made it:

1. I took a piece of cardboard and used spray glue to cover it with a scrap piece of fabric. I know cardboard is kind of weird to use, but when I was teaching I always hung things on my wall with pushpins. (My principal wouldn't even allow staples in the walls so think he would crap his pants if he knew I used nails to hang some heavier frames!) So I thought it would be good to use something light to hang in the classroom.





2. I printed the outline of an L, cut it out, and traced it onto the fabric. I eyeballed the center which means of course it was off center.



3. Then I used my handy dandy glue gun and went to town gluing buttons in the traced area.





4. I used a piece of scrap ribbon to tie in a bow and hot glue to the back of the board for hanging.



See, I knew this would be easy to create! I think it is pretty (minus the glue everywhere. I was kind of sloppy). It also reminds me of something you would find in a baby nursery so this project is quite versatile. Hopefully John's teacher likes it. If she doesn't, we can just pretend John made it instead of me.

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Teacher Appreciation Day 2

Today was our day to give something for 'pampering' the teachers at John's daycare. Personally, I would much rather be pampered with yummy candy then a random bottle of lotion. I mean, how many bottles of lotion does a lady really need? Plus, it helped that I had left over candy from the craft show available and no bottles of lotion on hand!

I made this on photoshop. Don't judge- I just learned how to use the program last week so I am still figuring it out!



My original thought was to print them on card stock and make little plastic bag toppers. But when I got to work (yes I made them at work today!) I found these little favor boxes left over from a bridal shower that I threw and glued the picture on the front and filled the boxes with candy. I thought they needed a little something extra, but being that I was at school, all I could find was some yellow crepe paper. I cut some strips, tied them to the box, and crinkeled them up to make them look a little festive.




So, this turned out to be one of those projects that looked better in my head than how it actually turned out. The teachers seemed to like them though and probably needed some sugar at the end of the day!

Teacher Appreciation Gift

This week is Teacher Appreciation and at the daycare, we have a little list of gifts for each day. This year I am not doing as much as I did last year mainly because John John switched classes this week and I don't know his new teachers at all and then I feel bad leaving out his old teachers. So, I decided just to give gifts for two or three of the days to both sets of teachers (that is SEVEN teachers!) and not every day. But I digress. Since today was simply writing a note of thanks (easy!), I decided to share one of the gifts I gave last year when we were supposed to bring flowers to the teacher.



I got the tins in the dollar section of Target, and even though this is from last year, I saw something similar at the store just the other day. Then we just got some flowers at Walmart and planted them with notes attached to BBQ skewers. The note said 'Teachers are the sunshine, Students are the flowers, Sunshine helps the flower grow!'. I saw that online somewhere so I totally stole it! :)

Check back tomorrow for the next gift!