Preschool Teacher Gift

Just about two weeks ago was Smiley's last day of preschool.  She has had the same two teachers for the last two years.  These are also the same two teachers Action had when he was in preschool.  Since we don't have any more little ones in our house signing up for preschool, I wanted to do something special for these two wonderful women who have played such a huge part of our children's lives and instilled a love of school early on. 

Every year these teachers ask our children questions and somehow present their answers to us parents in some sort of gift ~ there have been cookbooks, end of the year books, pictures or simply door displays.

I wanted to turn the tables and have the kids answer questions about their teachers.

I created a questionnaire (Here is the one I made for Smiley to fill out).

Handed them out to the parents along with instructions on what to do and when to return them to me. Sent out a few reminder emails :) as well as a request for pictures from any of their time spent at school or on field trips.  

I created one binder for each teacher.  Each binder contained a filled in questionnaire from each child along with simple collaged and scrapbooked pages of pictures (I put all pages into clear 3 ring binder sheet protectors).

A few examples:

They LOVED them!

Here are Smiley's finished questionnaires:

And I ended the books with a poem.  I found a poem on Pinterest, but some of the wording wasn't pertinent to our kids, so I changed some of the wording and created a chalkboard like design.  Currently, I can not find the original online, but I never saw an author listed.  

Here is my version:

Need a teacher gift idea?  I would definitely recommend something like this!

Linking up at:
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A bowl full of Lemons

Red, Pink and White

We are ready.

Valentine's cards are addressed and stuffed with candy.

Treat jars for the teachers have been made. And small treats for the bus drivers are ready do be delivered.

A few decorations here:

(felt ball as seen here)

(easy twine wreath made with a foam wreath, glue gun and craft jute ~ I first saw it here)

A few decorations there:

(pom pom tutorial here)

Some delicious sugar cookies baked:

And some of that cold white stuff played in:

Valentine's day

WE ARE READY!

Teacher Gift

Sassy wanted to make an end of the year gift for her teacher. This is what we came up with:

Tissue Paper flowers (in a handpainted "vase" filled with chocolates):

Supplies:

colored tissue paper ~ you use 9 circles for each flower

cup or bowl with about a 4 inch diameter do trace

pipe cleaners

empty can (whatever size you want)

acrylic paints

paint brushes

chocolates (or whatever you want to use as filler)

Directions:

1. Trace your cup or bowl onto the tissue paper (since you need about 9 circles for each flower we stacked them so we only had to trace one).

2. Cut out your circles (leave them stacked so you only have to cut once).

3. Take one pipecleaner and poke a hole through the center of your 9 circles. Then fold the top over so it doesn't slip out of the tissue paper.

4. Loosly gather your petals up and wrap pipecleaner around the bottom of the flower.

5. Gently seperate the "petals" and twist a bit to form your flower.

6. Repeat for as many flowers as you want.

7. Paint any design or pattern you want on your can (Sassy painted bees ~ as her teachers theme for the year was "busy bees") using your acrylic paints.

7. When the can is dry, put your flowers in and fill with chocolates (or whatever you wish to use) to hold them in place.