Class & Teacher Treats

I made my card class a little treat for St Patrick's day, and made a few extra for the boy's teachers and staff. I stuffed each pouch with a bit of tissue and 3 rolos for the "pots of gold".

I stamped my image (with Stayz-on ink) onto pretty gold paper and punched the image out with a label punch. Fastened it with a golden brad. Easy-peasy!

Last-minute teacher gifts

What a great summer we've had! Lots of sunshine, but not too hot and lots of good fun with my 3 boys. I had thought I'd have some time to craft while the little one napped, but that plan flew out the window and I spent most nap times cleaning in-between homework and acting the referee.

We also received our class assignments a bit late this year, so I made a non-gender specific gift of pencils in a homemade paper box.

It was looking fairly plain and I thought I'd have to scrap (ha-ha) the entire project, but then I remembered I had this cute owl punch from Stampin' up to use, and it turned out stinkin' cute, IMHO. I replaced the paper eyes with googlie eyes. the tag reads: "Hope your first day is a Hoot!"

I can't wait for tomorrow...first day for my 4th grader, 1st grader and preschooler. And I get 2.5 hours of alone time. What ever am I going to do with myself??

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More Teacher Thanks

Our baby is moving to "real" preschool and has completed his pre-preschool Fridays only class. Because we have so many teachers to thank ever year and we are on a limited budget, we get creatively cheap here in our house.

I bought 2 buckets in Target's dollar spot and then filled them with a cute little Gerbera daisy and printed a simple thank you on card stock, glued to funky little forked toothpicks from the dollar store.

Total cost (which is in no way reflective of how we feel about our teachers!) was $4.50 each

Pretty darn cute and the teachers loved them, too.

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Teacher Gifties

We have 3 teachers to give a big thanks to, so we are big on creative-and-thoughtful-on-the-cheap.

I made these cups and the boys made cookies to fill them with and we tucked a $5 coffee card inside. I debated on giving more, but then realized that if every kid gave a coffee card (and most will) then there is no way they'd be able to use them all up in a year. Oh, to have that problem!!

I used Dixie hot cups and some scrap Christmas paper. I used Scor-pal tape to secure the paper on the weird foam cups (no Styrofoam here in Portland-not sure what it used in it's place.) I glued a layered tag on the lid then embellished the cup with a ribbon and glitter snowflake. I glittered the snowflake with ultra fine glitter and Mod Podge. I LOVE the little snowflakes with the buttons. Very cute!

Enjoy the last 9 days of Christmas!