Teacher Appreciation Week –Teacher Survival Kits

I know this post is a *few* days late. Last week was a hectic week of planning for both my House Party Singer Sewing Machine Party and Cody’s 5th Birthday Party. Pictures from both events to come soon! :)

This project was probably the easiest one out of the bunch.

Here are the supplies:

• One cardboard pencil box (purchased at Michael’s)
• Starbursts
• Decorative nail file (purchased at Bath and Body Works)
• Antibacterial gel (purchased at Bath and Body Works)
• Colorful paper clips
• Band-Aids
• Advil (travel size)
• Decorative scrapbook paper

Since the boxes had colored lids, I selected scrapbook paper that coordinated with the colors. The above sets are old sets from Close to My Heart.

Arrange the products neatly inside the box. If you want to ensure that they don’t move around in the box during delivery, then use the Zot dots to glue the items down.

Cut the paper just slightly smaller than the box lid. For these specific boxes, the paper was cut down to 6” x 4”. Attach the paper to the box.

I then created a tag for each of the boxes. You can download a PDF of the tags here.

Once the tags were printed, they were matted onto solid color cardstock. A flower-shaped eyelet was attached to the corner of the card. Coordinating ribbon was then looped through the card and wrapped around the entire box.

The completed Teacher Survival Kits….

Get creative and think of any items that might be helpful to a teacher.

You can even modify the box contents and make it a survival guide for pregnant women, new moms, new dads, babysitters, etc.

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Teacher Appreciation Week–Wednesday–Sweet Treats - Cake Pop Style!

My name is Michelle….and I have an addiction….

TO CAKE POPS!

I’m not even a sweets person (except for one week out of the month heehee), but I have yet to meet a cake pop that I didn’t like.

The first few times I made them, I melted the chocolate in the microwave. Then I met this bad boy and my life was changed….

The chocolate pro is now my cake-pop-makin’ best friend!!

You just add the morsels and in a few minutes, it is melted to a smooth, even consistency. No more racing time to get everything dipped. OH THANK YOU WILTON!

Okay…enough of my gushing…and let’s get on with the project.

Here is what you need to create this project:

Refrigerated cake pieces

Edible decorative embellishments

Dip the cake into the chocolate (sorry, I wasn’t coordinated enough to take a picture of the actual process). :)  I only did a partial dip, but a typical cake pop is completely covered in chocolate.

These are technically called “cake balls”, but I have an issue with calling it that. ;)

Sprinkle the decorative topping onto the cake pop.

You can put them in mini cupcake liners for added presentation.

Speaking of presentation – packing is an important factor in cuteness. For this project, I chose mini Chinese takeout boxes.

For the label, I printed the phrase “A Sweet Treat for Someone Sweet” on regular white printer paper then punched it out with a 1” circle punch. The decorative background paper was punched using a 3” circle punch.

I found these cute stickers in the dollar section at Michael’s and added them to the tags.

With the handy dandy Paper Tagger, the labels were attached to the boxes.

The finished product…

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Teacher Appreciation Gift–Tuesday–Sticky Note Pads with Pen Set

Another cute project I have been wanting to try is a sticky note pad holder thing - at least that’s what I call it :).

Here are the goods for creating this project.

3x3 Sticky Note Pads

Decorative 12x12 cardstock paper - I suggest using cardstock so it is not so flimsy.

Colorful Buttons…

Ribbon

After you have cut the decorative cardstock into 3 1/4” x 7 3/4” strips (you can get 4 from a 12x12 cardstock), turn the paper around and score it at the following measurements:

3 1/8”
3 1/2”
6 5/8”
7”

Fold the paper on the score lines then attach the sticky pad to the center square on the paper. I used snot dots (aka Glue Dots for those that want the official name).

Though you can choose from a variety of tools (fasteners, eyelets, brads, etc) to fasten the covers together, but I opted for buttons because I have an over-abundance of buttons in my craft room from a Christmas ornament project that never came to be.

Attach one button to the the smaller flap. Then attach another button to the larger flap.

I glue dotted the ribbon to the button then wrapped it in a figure 8 between the two buttons.

Voila…you now have sticky pad holder things.

Presentation is everything so these little guys were paired up with a colorful pen and packaged in a spring cello bag and sealed with curling ribbon. You can never go wrong with curling ribbon! 

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Teacher Appreciation Week–Monday

This week is Teacher Appreciation week. I have to admit that I was last minute on even planning the gifts, but with a little brainstorming, Monday’s teacher’s gift is popcorn with a custom wrap. I have always wanted to make these and never had the chance so it was a fun excuse to make these easy to make gifts.

The card says “Just popping in to say Thank You for all you do”.

Do you have any ideas to share for Teacher’s Appreciation gifts? I have a 4 more days of creativity to come up with! :)

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Welcome to my new blog!

I am a big fan of all things crafty, cooking-y and new so I decided to dedicate a blog to those topics.

Here, you will find a smorgasborg of my crafts, cooking (trials and errors, too!), and anything cool and fun to share!

Please feel free to leave a comment anytime! I would love to hear from you!

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