Homemade holiday gifts for teachers?

[Suzy Mouse]

Anyone here make there children's teachers their gifts? Any good ideas you wish to share?

 

[WDWMom]

Here is a great idea for preschool and kindergarten teachers.

Buy some card stock and fold for a card.
Ink your child's hand and make a handprint for the front of the card.
Then stamp "Thank You" in the palm.

Instant thank you notes for a teacher. DS made these a couple times and his teachers loved them.

Easy and the kids make them with little time.

 

[JulianneP]

I'm a former teacher and really loved some of my homemade gifts that students made me. Especially some of the Christmas ornaments. Now that I'm not teaching (miss it dearly) I love taking out the ornaments and remembering all my former students and telling my kids about them.

Now that my son is in pre school I try to make one homemade gift and then I give a gift card somewhere too. Last year I made them a bundle of homemade note cards and put them in one of those craft pails with a candle. They loved it! This year I got these paper mache snowmen buckets and I'm making snowman soup to put in it. Snowmen soup is packets of hot chocolate, marshmellow, hershey kisses, and a candy cane. It has a cute poem to go with it. I got it from another post here. Let me know if you want it.

 

[pattyT]

If you do a google.com search for 'recipes in a jar'
there are a lot of websites with a million GREAT ideas from 'homemade' bath salts to Flavored Coffee and soups!
Hope that Helps!

 

[Rebecca12345]

Suzy

Here is an idea I have in my file - haven't tried them yet but look nice - Message Tiles - the kind you write notes on...


http://www.klompenstampers.com/id376.htm

 

[yummy72]

Here's the thread Julianne was talking about....It had lots of great ideas for homemade gifts on it:

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=468076


This year DD's main teacher (4th grade) is getting a jar of home-canned apple pie filling with a really cute angel pin attached to the bow, plus a holiday picture frame (printed a "card" and put it in the frame)

Her other teachers/librarians/etc... are getting jars of home-canned jams, apple butter, pear honey...


good luck,
Candi

 

[DiznEeyore]

My ds and I are decorating candles using an idea from the Designing With Words book. You stamp words in pigment ink (using different fonts) on white tissue paper. Cut them out, attach them w/a glue stick to a white candle and then melt them onto the candle. The tissue disappears and just the words remain. You can either use a heat tool or a hairdryer but I found that the wax melted too much.

I ended up using a metal spoon heated on the stove burner to rub over the words and that worked fine.

We made sets of 3 candles -- two small pillars and a medium. One small has the word "Joy" in gold, the other has "Peace" in green, and the larger candle has "Love" in red. (I figured the "Love" one was Christmasy but could also be used for Valentine's Day.) I tied matching raffia around the candles to finish them off.

They were pretty simple, I think they turned out pretty well, and my ds is excited to give them to his teachers.

 

[Suzy Mouse]

Here are some ideas I have done in the past...

~I bought those small chalkboards at ACMoore. I hot glue the little wooden treasures around the corners and attach a crayon ribbon at the top so this can be hung in the classroom. Them with a paint pen I write the teacher's name on the board. It comes out really cute. I've given them to so many teachers they are everywhere throughout the building.

~I buy the galvonized tins and paint their names on them and fill them with homemade candies.

~I do the same thing with glass jars. Paint their names on them, add stickers and filler up!

I love giving gifts that have their names on them. Has anyone done anything with personalizing?