Teacher Gifts

I try to make and give things to my kids’ teachers all year round. Nothing extravagent or pricey, but something that I go buy a few supplies, give a little of my time and badda boom, badda bing, I’ve got something heartfelt that the kids can take to say “thank you” to those special teachers for making a difference in their lives.

Here was one of the things I did this year, I got plain old clay flower pots and painted them in various designs in our school colors and painted their names on with paint pens. It took me a couple hours to do several, getting a couple coats of paint on, then I got some nice little flowers to put in them. All the teachers loved them! I may do this again for some other small gifts to give somebody special, it was fun to do.

Magnetic Memo Boards

This is one of the things I made for the kids gifts to teachers.

Go to your local sheet metal place and have them cut some pieces custom for you. I had them do, I think, about 9 x 11″. Then you bend back a couple inches on the bottom for it to stand up. Get your glue stick and some complimentary scrapbook papers, hot glue embellishments to a couple of magnet and voila! You’ve got a useful and attractive memo board the person can keep on their desk or work area. Everyone that got ‘em loved ‘em!