Bring On The Crafts!! ;)

Well, summer's over & time to get crafty!!  ;)  My 3-yr-old is keeping me busy with preschool (you can see that blog with the link to the right!), so I don't have a ton of extra time, but manage to find time here & there!!  ;)

Last week, we passed out little treats to the primary teachers at church.  You could easily do this for a school teacher, just change the wording!!  This is what I came up with:

I've seen the "fall to pieces" (using Reese's Pieces) idea before, but just added my own twist!  :)  I looked at about 3 stores & could NOT find individual bags of Reese's Pieces, so I just bought a few of the "party-size" bags & put a scoop full into clear party bags!  Not rocket science, but I think they turned out cute!!  :)

Hooray For Teachers!!

Being that this week was teacher appreciation week, I managed to get around to a few little projects!!  :)  I was lazy & didn't start my "appreciation" until Wednesday, so the teachers each got 3 gifts.  ;)  For Wednesday, I made each of our teachers (3), a notebook (totally simple - just covered a spiral notebook with scrapbook paper & added their initial!!), but was really bummed when I realized I forgot to take a picture!!  :(  I also gave them a flower pen (wrapped in floral tape with a silk flower on top)!!  For Thursday, I personalized cups, filled them with my new favorite popcorn & wrote a little note on a new notepad!  (The notepads were leftovers from some free stuff I was given, but they had the word "Nice" at the top & a red border at the bottom. . . so they worked!!  ;)

 Wrote their names with a Sharpie - totally simple!  I think the cups were 4/$2 @ Wal-Mart!

 Very addicting popcorn!!!  :)  All packaged up in a simple lunch sack!!


For today, I gave 2 of the teachers a bag of Flipz, with a note that said, "I've been doing Flipz all year with you as my teacher!"  - Kinda corny, I know - but again, it worked!! ;)  For the 3rd teacher, I knew she liked Twix, so I got her a pack of them & attached a note that said, "To a GOLDEN teacher!"  ;)  The last treat went to my daughter's orchestra teacher - a Symphony bar with a note: "Thanks for helping my begin my journey to the symphony!"  (Get it - "Symphony. . .  orchestra. . . again, corny I know!! ;)

I wasn't a teacher for long, but long enough to know that they truly appreciate the thought & it doesn't have to be elaborate!!  Everyone likes to be appreciated!!!  ;)

Teacher Treats

A few weeks ago, we wanted to give the primary teachers a little something just to thank them for all they do!  (This could totally work for school teachers too!!)  So, I baked some cookies & came up with a little poem to go along!  I gave each teacher 3 cookies - an M&M cookie, a chocolate chip cookie, and a chocolate-white chocolate chip cookie - put them in a bag & tied on the poem!! 

Super simple!  (However, baking 90 cookies & assembling 30 poems & bags took some time!!)  ;)  This was my poem:

Here are some cookies, that were baked especially for you.

This is a simple "thank you" for everything that you do!

You'll notice one is different and more colorful than the rest - 

that cookie's just like you, 'cause our teachers are
THE BEST!!!

Besides the M&M cookies, the others were made using cake mixes!!  SO EASY!!  Check out my recipe blog for the recipes!!  If you didn't want to use M&M's, you could use a Funfetti cake mix & it would still work with the poem!! ;)