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| frannie |
Posted - Nov 10 2009 : 12:47:42 PM
i know it might be early, it isnt even thanksgiving yet, and well as the omie, i think the greatest gift is that they get to teach my grandchildren, but i do like to adknowledge the great job that teachers do. so i thought we might share our ideas for homemade teacher gifts.
i have two ideas today, and well of course they involve acorns, cause as some of you know i am NUTS for acorn crafts.......
1. felted acorns with sprinkles of glitter. several in a bowl are just tooo pretty. these same acorns can be adapted to be book marks with a beautiful ribbon, and also adapted to be a small ornament. the larger acorn caps can also be made in to ornaments.
i can post pics if necessary,,,but i would also like to hear about crafty gifts that you like to make as well.
love
frannie in texas
home of "green"crafts,
where no scrap is left behind
(http://abunnystale.wordpress.com/)
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| frannie |
Posted - Nov 16 2009 : 10:06:13 AM
i really love homemade gifts too, and really grew up with that concept. i do however wonder about the volume of things that teachers get, and in this day and time, i think the idea of donating a book in honor of the teacher to the library is a wonderful idea.
i love to make journals as well, and have started some this past week.
love
frannie in texas
home of "green"crafts,
where no scrap is left behind
(http://abunnystale.wordpress.com/)
www.angeltree.etsy.com |
| tea_lady_tammy |
Posted - Nov 14 2009 : 4:47:35 PM
AS a teacher I love homemade gifts. I thought the stray teacup idea and journal idea were great ones. You make lovely things.
blessings,
Tammy
Tea is like being in the stars with God.
http://breathsoffaith.blogspot.com |
| StarMeadow |
Posted - Nov 14 2009 : 04:17:04 AM
Books for the classroom library. As a teacher and a Mom, I've been on both sides... Food items, mugs, coffee coupons, and christmas ornaments are sweet and endearing, but a gift for the classroom goes a long way and benefits everyone. Or how about a lovely note and a donation to the local food pantry on your teacher's behalf? (Although, I must admit...a lovely jar of jam is never turned away!) Oh and that journal....way cool.
After more than 20 years...it's that one letter from a student that is in the back of my desk drawer and the box of misc photos that I treasure.
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| SheilaC |
Posted - Nov 13 2009 : 1:06:16 PM
Jam! We always give the teachers jam--by the time the 3rd child comes to their class, they're asking what kinds of jam will they get this year? :) |
| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 7:27:14 PM
My daughter is a middle school teacher, and one of her favorite gifts was a journel type book that all the kids in her differant periods wrote something to her (one child started this on her own), some of it was sappy sweet, some were funny, and some were comicaly critical of test scores and essey grades. Some drew pictures or just doodles. Either way she absolutly loves it, it is very presious to her. You see it was her first year teaching and she was sooooo very worried about the job she was doing (which of course I told her was silly), and whether or not she was making a differance, I believe she did.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
| frannie |
Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 7:08:11 PM
that sounds like a great gift!
love
frannie in texas
home of "green"crafts,
where no scrap is left behind
(http://abunnystale.wordpress.com/)
www.angeltree.etsy.com |
| coffeemom |
Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 1:29:22 PM
How about rescuing a stray tea cup and saucer from a thrift store and filling it with handmade soap or something and tying it up with a beautiful ribbon. |
| frannie |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 09:18:06 AM
aunt jenny, it is very hard to keep a good farmgirl down. so glad your recovery went well.
love
frannie in texas
home of "green"crafts,
where no scrap is left behind
(http://abunnystale.wordpress.com/)
www.angeltree.etsy.com |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 08:32:35 AM
frannie..I am doing just fine. Yes..had total knee replacement on my left knee in August. I am doing well..healed up pretty good and done with Physical therapy now, although I still am working on getting my knee to go real straight and stairs still hurt. I am back to work...substitute teaching at the elementary school.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| frannie |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 08:31:08 AM
kelly, good to kmow that you like the gifts, i have wondered before if teachers have to have a special room or something to keep all their keepsakes. hehehehe.
love
frannie in texas
home of "green"crafts,
where no scrap is left behind
(http://abunnystale.wordpress.com/)
www.angeltree.etsy.com |
| 4HMom |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 07:25:28 AM
As a teacher, I SO apprecieate gifts that are made and come from the heart! Maybe not all teachers are like this, but I know a lot of us are. What a great thing to teacher your kids.
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
| frannie |
Posted - Nov 10 2009 : 9:18:25 PM
thanks for the post, so good to hear from you both. i am LOVING feeling good and getting back on this site.
aunt jenny, i love your idea with the knit dish cloth and homemade soap with the rafia and cute tag. also the pillows with the class picture is very sweet. i have made ornaments for christmas with an antique pic of santa in the middle but an ornament with a pic of the class would be sweet as well.
how have you been feeling, jenny. it seems to me you had a surgery this year.
love
frannie in texas
home of "green"crafts,
where no scrap is left behind
(http://abunnystale.wordpress.com/)
www.angeltree.etsy.com |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Nov 10 2009 : 5:18:40 PM
What great ideas!! I have given homemade soap with a hand knit dish cloth and tied up with raffia and a cute tag, or homemade ornaments, pillows with the class picture on them (that cool photo transfer paper that will put them on fabric) and of course fudge or other homemade candies..especially when the teacher is a man.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Nov 10 2009 : 1:16:19 PM
Frannie,
You make such beautiful things I just know those book marks would be so cute. Yes we would like to see pictures of the acorns in the bowl.
Nancy Jo
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
