Teacher's Gifts

Today is the last day of school around here. Unbelievable that I will have a 4th grader and a preschooler! And still one in tow to go ;-)

I've been busy this week putting together some teacher's gifts that were 1. inexpensive and 2. easy to make. I thought about these bags I had seen from The Digi Chick and all the big scraps of patterned paper I had and off I went to printing. I printed 10 bags on different cardstock. I found working in an assembly line worked best for this project as I was doing so many.

Simplicity was the way I went with these, no stamping, no elaborate decorations, just paper and a ribbon. I did stamp and decorate the cards that were included with coordinating paper from the scraps leftover after cutting out the template. I think they turned out well and only took me 2 nights to finish them up. I filled them with candy. These bags were for my 2 little one's teachers at daycare.

After finishing these bags I needed something a little more for my son's teacher who has been fantastic this year. I had already made her a gift for teacher's appreciation week so wanted to do something a little different and has some left over candy to use. I mean, I can eat some good chocolate, but I can only eat so much in one day ;-)

This bird house was the perfect choice and I already had a template printed and ready to cut that my wonderful friend Pam had put together for me with the instructions in case I hadn't already seen it. Of course Nichole's work is superb and her bird house looks so real. I like mine a lot but it doesn't look as good as hers but that's okay, I am different and I like that.

Hope all the teacher's enjoy the goodies! And here's to starting off the summer with an active 9 yr old with a broken arm.