Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Teacher Appreciation Gift

While shopping at Michael's this weekend my mother dearest and I came up with a wonderful idea for a gift for our co-workers. This was so cheap because we had almost everything on hand! And what is so awesome is this could be used for SO many things! Not just teacher appreciation week!

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All you need is:

hot glue gun
scrapbook paper
paper flowers
gemmies [jewels]
post-it notes
clear plastic picture frame



Take your handy dandy picture frame and take out the insert
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Use the insert as your guide to cut your scrapbook paper. [I got 6 out of my paper]
Then slide in the paper like so
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Flip the frame so that it is leaning like a long division sign [can you tell we are teaching division right now? hahah!]

Take your glue gun and glue on that post-it note stack
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Glue one the flowers
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You can tell I tried to choose what would match my post-its:]
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Add your gemmies
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Add a sweet note to the top post-it
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And pass them out!
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I'm quite proud if I do say so myself:]

17 comments:

Kami @ Sweet Charli... said...

Very, very cute idea! I would have never thought of it but what a great gift! Thanks for sharing! I think I will post this on my blog sometime this week if you don't mind! I will let you know when! :)

Liz said...

You are genious!

Shelly said...

I am a "Helping Hand" Volunteer for three 1st grade teachers. I was looking for something simple. I think this is it!

ter@waaoms said...

great idea! thanks for sharing.mu

Jennifer said...

Great idea...I am going to have to make these for the other teachers I work with ...they'll love 'em.

Stephanie said...

Love these!!

Jana said...

So Clever....useful and cute. I'm in love :)
Jana

Julie said...

I LOVE this idea. After finding your blog I ran to HL and picked up some supplies. I've made a few for the Teachers at my daughters school. (I made one for me too!)

Thanks for sharing this fabulous idea!

Julie
(Hope it's OK, I linked to your blog)

nitzan said...

great idea..i really like it

Carol, The Answer Is Chocolate said...

This is so creative! I love it. I'm headed to Michael's later today so I know what I'll be getting :)

Chaz said...

Okay those are so cute. It is exciting because even my craft-handicapped self could do that!

Aisyah Helga said...

Neat idea! I've linked this tutorial to my blog to share with my readers. Thanks for sharing!

Alissa said...

I was in charge of our VBS last week and I did this with the older kids and called them "prayer Boards". They loved them! Thanks!

Debbie Corbari said...

BRILLIANT!

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Kary said...

But how does the teacher put a "refill" post-it note on there once it has run out?

J+K said...

Hi kary,

The teacher would just hot glue a new pad to the base!

Thanks!
Jk