It's teacher appreciation this week! I find it to be somewhat ironic that I am a teacher.... yet I am doing all of these fun things for my kids teachers... maybe I appreciate what they do so much because I truly know what they do!
Here's the thing about
Pinterest. Sometimes, I just repin something without re-visiting the original pin site. So, I bought my cups, made my cute little signs for the top, bought my drink packets, ya know... the usual. Well, just now, when I was typing up this post I thought I would visit the
site so I could give the original pinner the credit she deserves... and I found that it also has a free printable!!! That would have saved me some time... so, always visit the site with the original pin! Thank you
Lisa Storms for the cute
free printable and idea.
I made these for the teachers of my boys in Preschool and Kindergarten.
I have an aide that works with me at school so I also made one for her.
Teacher Appreciation... take 2
I volunteered to decorate a door for teacher appreciation. The door I was assigned was my son's 2nd grade teacher. I happen to know his teacher a little better and I know her daughter. So, I asked her daughter what she liked and she told me Home Depot... and working on projects. I love Home Depot too, so I thought it would be fun to go with the whole tool, building theme.
I found clipart online and used my best artistic talent to make a paper tool box. Then I enlarged the various clipart and cut and traced the clipart on patterned paper to make the tools. For the letters I used my trusty cricut.
To go with the tool theme, I spray painted an old tool box I had bought at a yard sale. I printed off paper tools from the internet and took them into the school to have the kids color them and write messages. I had parents donate money to give her a gift card to Home Depot. Then, I stuck some plants in there for filler. In the back is her favorite candy bar... a symphony with toffee and almonds!
I truly appreciate all of my kids' teachers and all of the work and effort they put into teaching my children!!!
