Teacher Gift

Hello hello!! How was your summer? I'm sad to say that the last week of our summer was filled with throwing up, laundry, throwing up and more laundry. We all took our turn with the flu bug except my little 1 year old (hallelujah!). But thankfully we are all feeling better, just in time to send my oldest off to 1st grade!! I can't believe it!

I couldn't pass up the chance to make a fun gift for my son's teacher. My inspiration came from Amanda over at Shindig Parties To Go. She made Oreo Apple Pops, and put them in a cute vase covered with pencils. So I used her idea, and made it my own. Please forgive me for the horrible pictures! I still can't find my camera, so these were taken with my ipod! :)
Ok, here's my version

I used Amanda's tutorial to make the apple pops, so check it out HERE if you need a tutorial. Do you want to see how I made the super cheap version of the vase? Well, I started out with this

I didn't want to spend anything on the container, and was lucky enough to see the Parmesan cheese container in our recycle pile! I just washed it out, removed the packaging,
and cut it just a bit shorter than a crayon. The crayons I got at walmart for less than $1,
and the Styrofoam ball was in my craft stash. $1 for the vase? I can handle that!!

I just started gluing the crayons to the outside of the vase. I was going to use my hot glue gun, but ended up using E-6000 glue instead. This turned out to be a very good thing when I got to the last crayon and realized it wouldn't fit. Since the E-6000 stays wet for a while,
I was able to go back and space them better so there wasn't a huge gap.
I tied a ribbon around and glued the bow to the crayons. Then I glued the Styrofoam ball
to the bottom of the container. I first tried the E-6000, only to find out it made half
of the ball disintegrate! So use hot glue to glue the Styrofoam to the bottom! I also lined the inside of the vase with white paper....I'm not sure why. I just did! :)

I used raffia to tie the bags around the apple pops, as well as to hide the Styrofoam in the vase.

Here's my sweet 1st grader (ahhhh!) ready to give the gift to his teacher!

What do you think?! Did you do anything fun for your kids first day of school? If you need more ideas, Jess made some adorable cards for her kids teachers, found HERE.  Or Jacki did a whole week of teacher appreciation gifts HERE.  I also made a supply box for my sons teacher last year that turned out really cute.  Check that one out HERE!

Thanks for reading!!

Juli

Linking to THESE fabulous parties!

Teacher & Birthday Cards

It is the last week of school here so I made this card for my oldest's preschool teacher. He loves worms so I thought it was fitting.

He wrote her a cute note too.

It was also my other son's 3rd Birthday on Saturday and he looooves Emus. So I made him an Emu card. He loved it and carried it around with him for a while showing people. I think he is one of a kind!!!

Teacher Appreciation Week!

It's Teacher Appreciation Week,

so I figured I would share what I did for our six teachers.
(1 5th grade teacher, 1 3rd grade teacher, student teacher, speech teacher, 2 kindergarten teachers.)

Monday- My Teacher is AW-some!
I found the idea over at Eighteen25.
I loved it because I had all the ingredients already.





Tuesday- You are one smart COOKIE!
I found this at Nothing but Country
This was also nice because I just had to make the cookies.
(Wish I hadn't over cooked the no bake cookies, I ended up making a
different cookie because they were too dry.)


Wednesday- You are o"fish"ally the best!
Found this at Eighteen25 as well! They have such great ideas!

This was my favorite.
Mostly because of the little Swedish FishI stuck out of the top.
Isn't it cute!

Thursday- Thank you for a "Bliss-ful" School Year!
I found this over at Crissy's Crafts.
So cute, huh?!


Friday- Cupcakes in a Jar
This deliciousness is over at Skip to my Lou.
I am still in the process of making mine for tomorrow,
so I don't have a picture.
I will post one tomorrow though.
Go to skip to my Lou and see for yourself though. Delicious!

So there you have it. Hopefully you could use a few of these ideas.
There are so many different ideas in blog land that I
had a hard time deciding what I wanted to do.
I know my childrens teachers and others in our
school loved the little surprises.
And I know our teachers could use all the
support and love we can give them
for doing such a great job with our kiddos.
These would also be good for church teachers, coaches,
piano teachers and anyone else who you
feel needs a little thank you.


Hope everyone enjoys their Mother's Day weekend!

Jacki :)

Teacher Gift

So for my first post, I thought I'd share a craft I made last month for my sons student teacher. She was only his teacher for a couple months while his teacher was on maternity leave, but she was amazing! My son is very quiet (at school, not at home :) ), and often times gets overlooked. She paid attention to him and made him feel so special. So I needed something amazing for her, and I found it on one of my all time favorite blogs! Eighteen25 has some of the best ideas for all things creative! You should definitely check out their site. So, here's my version of their awesome idea.

A box full of goodies that any teacher would love!!

And what could be better than a personalized message for his favorite teacher to see each time she opens it?

This project was so much fun, and his student teacher loved it! I think I might just have to make this again for his actual teacher at the end of the year.

Thanks for reading!!

Juli

Linking to
Funky Polkadot Giraffe 
Sisters Stuff 
Gluesticks