{Teacher Appreciation}

Well it's been a year...or more since my last blog entry.  Ugh.  How did I have time to blog more regularly before??
Teacher Appreciation was this week.  I'll admit, just those words sends my brain into creative swirl mode.  I might have been created for this week, among-st any other opportunity to create fun crafts and gifts with my boys. I LOVE it all.  I borrowed some ideas this year from my sis and the almighty Pinterest and came up with a few of my own.  Many have asked to do the same for their teachers and to that I say, copy away!!!

{{DAY 1}}

Teachers favorite coffee drink.  Cool drink beverage holder (Ross 3.99) with Starbucks gift card inside and a sweet little flag note around the straw that reads: Thank you for quenching our thirst for knowledge.  Love your Kindergarten Class.  Stripe the edge near the straw and underlined the words to give the look of ruled paper.

{{DAY 2}}

Another adorable Ross find ($2.99) Mini Gumball machine.  Attach a cute note: Learning is DUBBLE the fun with you!

{{Day 3}}

We only have school Monday - Thursday, so I doubled up todays treats.  Mini rose bushes in darling tin pots (Trader Joe's 3.99).  Attach little flag signs that read: You bloom beautiful brains.
I had stocked up on some cute knee high socks at Target awhile back when they were on sale, so I attached a note to these with twine that read: Your teaching really knocks our socks OFF!  Thank you for all do!
*check Michaels $1 section for cute socks too*

{{Day 4}}

The boys and I had fun painting the inside of mason jars.  We started with turquoise and added a bit of dark blue to each additional jar to make three shades of turquoise jars for each teacher. The finished jars looked like this...so cool, so easy...but then we set out in the sun to dry.  And, we live in Seattle.  Naturally it rained.

So they took on a different look.  So we decided to coat with white paint over the top and chose to dry these over the heater vent this time.  We kind of like the "Seattle rain" look better anyway.  Add a votive and Glassy Babies don't have anything on these beauties. ;)

The note of these read: Thank you for lighting my path to learning.  We also sliced apples and strawberries and dipped in chocolate.  If we had more time I would have dipped the apples in caramel first, then chocolate, yum, yum!!