Blog Hoppin': Teacher Gifts

Hey y'all! I'm Michelle Hudgeons from Smitten With First. This will be my 7th year of teaching. I have taught Pre-K, Third, and First. Out of all of those, first grade is my absolute favorite. When I am not in the classroom, I am spending every moment I can with those two cuties you see below. They make my heart all kinds of big!

When the girls at Blog Hoppin' asked me to join them I just about did 5,000ish flips down my driveway! Thank goodness we live out in the country where not that many people had to witness that! Whew.

Ok, let's get to it shall we?! I have a few back to school freebies for you all.

I am always trying to change up my back to school gifts that I give my team each year. I try to keep it very simple and cheap because we all know how much money we spend during those summer months. Lots! Can I get an amen?!? This year, I went with gum. Our grade level work room has a "choose joy" theme, so I made these tags that say "CHEWS Joy". I also made a few that say "Here's to a POPPING good year".

Fonts by KG Fonts and DaFonts

You can download both tags here. These tags by Sweet Metel Moments are perfect if you are looking for gum tags that your child can give to their teacher.

When my daughter was in Kindergarten two years ago we made this pink basket for her teacher.

She wanted to do the same thing for her teacher this year, so we grabbed a few pink items at Target and put them in a basket to let her teacher know that she is "tickled pink".

Fonts by MTF Fonts and DaFonts

You can download the tags here.

This year our school is doing "Fired Up for Learning" with dragons and a medieval times theme. I like to have some type of a treat for my kiddos to take back home with them from Meet the Teacher, so after finding this idea of using jelly beans for dragon eggs, I made these tags to staple to Ziplock bags.

I also found this idea of using Doritos for dragon scales on Life is a Party. I will probably put these in our main workroom for all the teachers to have as a treat on the night of Meet the Teacher. These could also be a fun parent gift. Who doesn't love to eat chips?!

Fonts by Cara Carroll and MTF Fonts

Dragon clip art by Creative Clips

You can download these tags here.

Today is the first day back for teachers. I'm excited to get back to it, but I sure will miss wearing pajamas and no make up all day. Our students start back next Monday. How about you? When do your students start back?

Hi all, it's Erica from Erica's Ed-Ventures. Are you stumped as to what to get your child's teacher? We have all seen this pin:

To help you out and of course as a public service to teachers everywhere, I asked my Facebook teacher fans to share with me their favorite end of the year teacher gifts! Click on the images to find the sources!

The consensus of my face book pole...It does not have to be some sort of Pinterest inspired crafty master piece. The most coveted gift: a letter of thanks from the heart! If you are so inclined to write a letter of thanks, it would be wonderful if you could send a copy to the building principal and/or the school superintendent. Teachers are modest people and would not share the letter on their own. I have made these letter templates for you to download for FREE, just click the image below!

The second most favored gift: gift cards!

Two years ago, I had a reading teacher's daughter in my class. She made me this fabulous end of the year gift card book.

I asked her mom if I could make a version to share on my blog and she said yes! Click the image to download and create your own gift card book. I have included a black line version and color.

Another clever way to display gift cards is in bouquet form:

This idea was shared by a lovely fb follower!

It's no secret that Teachers Pay Teachers is THE favorite site of teachers everywhere. So, why not give the teacher in your life a gift certificate to TpT?