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Other Thoughts for These Teacher Appreciation Week Ideas

If you think the tags are too large for your gift, you can always print them out at 75% or even 50% by selecting scaling on page print out properties page.

If you don’t want to send in fresh fruit, you could always send in something that has bananas or pears in it. It would be a baked good, a scented soap, or even a candle.

Teacher Appreciation Week Ideas- Printable Tags

Teacher Appreciation Gift- Class Thank You Flower

This past year I have been one of the room moms for JDaniel’s class. Sometime during the winter one of the moms came to me and said she had a great time for the teacher appreciation gift. She had found it on Pinterest. While I was searching for the idea she had found, I came across a class thank you flower shared on Hillside Elementary Library The Hillside Elementary Library blog suggested flowers be given to each teacher in the school by her students. It would be hung on the the teacher’s door. Each petal of the flower had a picture or a message written on it by one of the students in her class. I love this teacher appreciation gift of a class thank you flower and pinned it so I would not forget it.Last week I sent home two flower petals with each student in JDaniel’s preschool class. I asked each student’s mom to help them decorate and place a message one petal for their teacher and her teaching assistant.

Yesterday I collected all the petals and put together the class thank you flowers. The teacher at Hillside Elementary had taped the petals of the flower in place. I wanted the teachers to be able to spread the petals out and fold them back in.

Each petal received a hole from a hole punch at one end. I then cut out two pink felt circles and cut small slits in their centers. Next I placed on pink felt circle on the the brad. After the circle was in place, I added the decorate petals from the class. Finally I added the other pink circle.

I did the same thing for both teacher’s thank you flowers.

Why did I construct the teacher appreciation gift this way?

Felt CirclesMany of the students decorated or had messages that went the full length of the petal. By using felt instead of cardboard the teachers could lift up the circle to read the full message or take in the full picture.

Folding Flowers

I chose to have the flowers fold so the teachers would be able to store them easily. I wasn’t sure how they would store a large flower.Two Circles Two felt circles were used to help the petals stay on the brad. I was worried over time the petals in the back might slip of the brad.

The teachers received their teacher appreciation gifts last night. Both loved their class thank you flowers. I watched as they read over some of the messages. They were really touched by them.