Teacher Appreciation! Cupcakery

This is it! The last of our 2011 Teacher Appreciation Week gifts.

On Friday of last week, W&O took cupcakes to their fabulous teachers. When I had the teachers fill out their "Favorites Forms", I found out their favorite types of cupcakes. I had them made at Cakehead Bakeshop, a specialty bakery here in town.

The bakery packaged the cupcakes in a small box and I tagged them with cute toppers and labels. The topper is stamped with a digital stamp from Garden Party and the cupcake image is from Cupcakery, both by CD Muckosky.




So there you have it! Five fun days of goodies for our teachers!

Thanks for sticking with me and I hope you've enjoyed all the teacher appreciation ideas for this year!

Love and hugs everybody!

Teacher Appreciation! "Take Note"

Okay, so I got a little overwhelmed at the end of the week last week and never got around to posting our last two days of Teacher Appreciation Week gifts.

So here I am.

Ready to post!

On Thursday, the kids took these journals to their teachers.




I love journals and hope our teachers do, too!

I created the tag and wrap using Between the Pages by Kaye Wineicki and Re Kniepp. I also personalized them with a small cardstock initial at the bottom.

It wasn't until I saw my sweet friend Mel's post that I figured out how to word the tag! Mel is so fantastic and her gifts and designs are TO. DIE. FOR! Serious cuteness! And SOOOOO EASY! Love that! If you haven't checked out The Domesticated Lady, you totally should! Mel rocks!

Only one more day left to spoil our teachers! Stay tuned!

Teacher Appreciation! "We're bananas!"

Whit and Olivia took homemade banana pudding to all of their teachers today. We usually choose one day during Teacher Appreciation Week where we take a little something to everyone who teaches my kiddos (art, PE, Spanish, etc.). We even took them to our favorite nurse, lunch lady and office personnel! I just can't tell you enough how much these people mean to my kids!! Every single person they come in contact with at their school influences them daily. This was just our small way of saying "Thanks!"

So, we whipped up our famous banana pudding and we sent it to school in containers like this:


Actually, I didn't have enough of the brown ribbon, so I tied the spoons on with twine. Here's the final product, sitting in my fridge, ready to roll this morning:



Here is the topper. I used Cuties Elements and Kraftly Papers both by Val Wibbens.



I used rub-on transfers to label the spoons with their initials. It was a nice little extra touch, I think!



So there, you go! Another day down and only two more to go!

Happy Teacher Appreciating!

Teacher Appreciation! Have a Coke and "Take 5"

Today, the PTO peeps left these little treats on the desks of our teachers and staff.




I created the tags using Scrapping 9 to 5 by Kate Hadfield and My Favorite Thing (retired) by Jady Day Studio. We tied cute little paper straws onto Cokes and attached the tags to Take 5 bars.

Totally sweet!! :)

Teacher Appreciation! You ROCK!

Today my kids took these to school with them for their teachers.




I found each of the teachers' favorite candies and added an iTunes gift card in the basket.

I used Child of the 80's by Kate Hadfield and Piccadilly Paper Pack by Gina Miller to create the tags.

Teacher Appreciation! Mints

Here is the PTO gift for our teachers today.



I created the tags using Cookies for Santa by Kate Hadfield.

We stuck the tags onto Altoids mints for each teacher and left them on their desks.

Fun, fun!

Teacher Appreciation! Strawberry Baskets

LUCKY YOU!

Not only will I share my personal gifts for Teacher Appreciation Week, but also the gifts from our PTO (since I helped coordinate them).

Here is the gift we left on the teachers' desks for Teacher Appreciation Week today at Spartanburg Charter School.




I created the tags using Fruit Stand by Kate Hadfield and Shabby Miss Jenn's Designs. The strawberry baskets came from a local strawberry farm and we threw in some sweet strawberry candy.

Just a simple little way to say "we care about you!"

Come back tomorrow to see more gifts for Teacher Appreciation Week!

Teacher Appreciation! Subway Art

Today my kids took a small token of appreciation to school for their teachers.

They will continue to do this every day this week.

It's just a small way we show our teachers how much we love and appreciate all the hard work they do throughout the year.

Today we took these:



Subway art is all the rage right now. You can find it all over the internet for each season. As soon as I saw this version on eighteen25, I knew I wanted to do these for our teachers.

I wrapped them with cherry red twine and a cute chalkboard tag.


Then I let the kids sign the tags and off they went.


Be sure to grab the subway art from eighteen25. Even if you don't use it for Teacher Appreciation Week, you can certainly use it as an end of the year gift or even a back-to-school teacher gift!!

Happy Teacher Appreciating!

Spring(ish) Break Day 5

Last day!

Today I leave you with one last idea from Martha. It might just be my favorite idea yet! In fact, it wasn't originally a Teacher Appreciation idea at all. Martha thought these would make great Bridesmaid Goodie Boxes. But, I think they'd be perfect for your favorite teacher! We have these little differences of opinion every now and again! Pfffffft.

How. Cute. Is. This??


Seriously, I can't stand it!

You could fill it with your teacher's favorite fresh snacks and goodies or even a takeout lunch.

If I were doing this gift, I would probably get them takeout from a local specialty shop (Sparkle City peeps - I'm thinking Ice Creams and Coffee Beans or Gigi's Cafe). Then I'd re-wrap it in a cute container with a sweet tag and ribbon. {You know me, right? You should've seen that one coming.}

Or don't re-wrap it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thought lunch that counts!

Whatever you do, make sure you get something your teacher likes. You could give them a takeout menu and let them choose what they'd like to order. And, make sure you know what time of day is best to bring it, if you choose to bring them lunch. There's nothing worse than having a nice hot/fresh meal sitting there getting cold and stale while you wait an hour and a half for your planning period. Nothing.

I have a little something for you today. It's just a quirky little form I like to use to find out all of our teachers' favorite things. I use this every year so that I can make choices for things that they really like and I don't have to guess. I mean why buy your teacher an iTunes gift card if they'd rather have new books or movie tickets, right? Get them what they want!

To get a copy of the My Favorites form, just click here.

You can change it, re-write it, make it your own.

I hope you've enjoyed this little series of Teacher Appreciation Week ideas and I hope you've been inspired to do something nice for your teacher!

I may have a few more ideas between now and TA Week, but as of now, I'm moving on!

Happy Spring, people!

Spring(ish) Break Day 3

Today I bring you some fun, FREE printables to package up your Teacher Appreciation Week goodies.

They are totally cute and totally FREE!! You have NO REASON not to visit The Tip Junkie and download these right away! Did I mention they are FREE?




Head on over there and download the goodies! Don't forget to leave her a comment to show some thanks and gratitude! {And, tell her I sent ya, if you don't mind!}

Happy Wednesday, people!

Spring(ish) Break Day 2

I love this idea from Bee in our Bonnet.



Even though it is a First Day Survival Kit, you could easily change it into an End of the Year Survivial Kit and it would be just as cute!

Happy Tuesday, people!

Spring(ish) Break

Hey Lovelies!

It's Spring Break around here and I'm going to take the week off to get caught up and {*gasp*} possibly even ahead!

For the next few days I'll leave you with links to some of my favorite teacher appreciation gifts, since that's the topic we left off with on Friday!

The first is my post on The Girl Talk Blog with the freebie Sonic drink holder tag.



I hope you enjoy!

Happy Spring Break, people!

{Funtastic Friday} Teacher Appreciation!

I love Teacher Appreciation Week.

Love.

Love.

Love.

Love.

Love it.

It is probably my favorite week of the whole school year. I love spoiling our teachers and making each and every day happy for them.

Have you ever been in your son or daughter's class for a whole day? Not just an hour or two here and there. And, not just for a holiday party. A. WHOLE. DAY.

If not, you should give it a whirl. Trust me, you'll be on the Teacher Appreciation bandwagon afterwards.

TA Week is right around the corner (May 2-6 ~ write it down, people). So, for the next few weeks, I'll be highlighting great, fun gifts for teachers. It never hurts to be ahead of the game and ready when TA week rolls around. The gifts don't have to be extravagant or expensive. Just a simple little something to let your teachers know you care and appreciate them and all of their hard work!

Here are my first few fun quick and easy gifts from the girls at eighteen25 (they even provide the labels for some of their projects to download as a freebie - *yay*):


"So fortunate to have you" take out boxes.


"O'fish'ally the best!" candy treats.


My teacher is AW-esome" drink and candy set.

My friend Mel is a pro at teacher appreciate-ing (hey - I think I just made up a new verb!).

Check out the s'more goody bags she whipped up last year (complete with a printable tag freebie).


You might also remember her "Popular Teacher" treat toppers that I used last year.


I just LOVE Mel's work. So cute, clever and FUN!!

Here is an idea from Cute as a Fox: a fun jelly bean apple.


And, finally (for today), I love this idea for a candy gram pail. If you have a teacher that has a sweet tooth, this could be the way to go! Be sure to use the little poem, too!


I'll have ideas o' plenty featured here over the next few weeks to get your creative juices flowing. And, PLEASE link me up if you find any more fun ideas floating around the ol' world wide web. I have about 400 ideas already logged in my idea folder (i.e. my teeny tiny brain), but I'm sure there are LOTS more that I've yet to discover! I'd love to add yours to the line up!

And, here's my best advice for Teacher Appreciation Week: DON'T WAIT!!!! For crying out loud, start planning now! You can pick up a few things here and there and be ready to roll when it comes around (remember - May 2nd thru 6th). Take it from me, the last thing you want to be doing the night before is scurrying around trying to get all of your items together and packaged nicely. Believe me when I say that will be *the* night your printer decides to run out of ink and you'll be left with a cute gift and no tag (and we all know the CUTE factor begins with the tag, right?).

Happy Friday, people.

And, happy teacher appreciate-ing!