TUTORIAL: Teacher Appreciation Gift And FREE Printable!

Need an easy gift to show those teachers you know how much they are appreciated this week?  You know, for Teacher Appreciation Week all week long (May 6-10, 2013)!

I thought a fun gift for Noah's teacher and his classroom teacher's helper would be a fun jar full of goodies with a cute printable attached telling them how much we like them.  This way they could use the goodies inside at their leisure and once they are done they have a cute little jar to use for whatever they want later.

If you want, you can just copy and paste this printable (below) onto your desktop and print "scale to fit". That should give you 4 tags for the smaller pint-size mason jars that can be cut with a 2 inch circle punch and then two larger tags that you will need to cut by hand but will fit a larger quart-size mason jar.

Teacher Appreciation Gift

mason jars

spray paint

miniature toy dog figurines

hot glue, e-6000, or strong glue dots

burlap strips or twine

free printable (found above)

First thing you want to do is take the lid(s) off your jars and spray paint just the outside of them whatever color you want.

Next, take your toy dog figurines and spray paint them as well.  Aren't these little guys just soooo cute!

Once both the lid and the dogs are dry, use your adhesive of choice and glue, hot glue, or glue dot them onto the lid of the jars.

So easy, right?

Fill each jar with whatever little goodies you think your teacher would like.  Noah's teacher happens to use those fun Mr. Sketch scented markers to grade their papers so I thought I would get her a new supply of them.  And then what person on earth doesn't like chocolate? ;-) I filled the rest of her jar with chocolates and I also filled the teacher's helper gift full of chocolates too!  Of course, each teacher will also get a gift card cause I just think they all deserve a lunch/coffee out on the town for their hard work all year long.

Then, hot glue the burlap strip around the middle of each jar and glue the printable onto that....

Or take some twine and wrap it around the center of the jar a few times and hot glue the printable to it!

So simple and versatile...I love gifts that keep on giving!

And really, who wouldn't want a sweet little puppy looking up at you from your desk all day long!

Thanks for stopping by today!

XOXO,