The most fabulous week as a teacher! And my favorite this year as well as being part of administration. As an administrator, the appreciation is really limited, it's really what comes with the job and I have no bitterness towards it. However, my teachers really benefited from all of my craftiness! And rather than splitting this up into 3 posts, I figured I would group them together.
#12
The first is kind of a thorn in my side. A month prior to Teacher Appreciation Week (which is beginning to mid May for those of you that might not know), I started looking for different ideas. I found a cute idea for a cup filled with candy or teacher items and an adorable tag reading "A cup of thanks for all you do!" Now, did I bookmark that page, no of course not! So fast forward a few weeks, and there I go looking for it again, and wouldn't you know, I can't find it. I searched for a week straight, my co-worker tried to find it for me and it just completely vanished!
After realizing that I wasn't going to find it, I had to get creative and make my own label (which I was still so bitter about because I loved that pre-made label!) Label made, now onto the cup and contents. Our company loves it's branding and the price of these stadium cups wasn't too bad. I threw in some candy, put it into a clear party bag, added some ribbon and the tag and called it finished.
#13
I started the week out with a breakfast. Come on, who doesn't love a free breakfast on Monday morning! Bagels & cream cheese, some "Simply" juices with adorable tags that read 'You're "Simply" the Best!' and a balloon bouquet.
Free Printable Tags for the juices: http://befickle.blogspot.com/2010/05/teacher-appreciation-gifts.html \
#14
Finally, my piece-de-resistance. I had seen the wedding thank you ideas where the bride and groom each hold an end of the thank you banner. Well, I couldn't really enlist 2 children to stand in the front office all day long to hold the banner. So I decided to print out 1 letter per page to spell out THANK YOU! (in different colors of course) and then take picture of different children holding the letters.
The excellent part was that there were 9 letters/character and we have 9 classrooms. So I took a boy and a girl from each classroom and had them hold a letter while I snapped a picture (I made 2 banners). For the !, I reserved that for our newest infant because I knew that I could just put her on a boppy and prop the ! in front of her (I couldn't imagine having one of our older ones try and hold it, this was easier.) I strung and hung them and everyone loved it! The extra greatness of it was that we had a Parent Advisory Meeting that week and the parents were able to see some of their children in the banners. Kudos to me!
For more teacher appreciation ideas for next year, go here: http://craftibilities.blogspot.com/2012/10/hi-there-first-post.html
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