Teacher Appreciation Crafts
- Take a piece of Manila paper and put it on top of some newspaper (to keep the paint from bleeding). Put red paint on your child's palm and press it onto the Manila paper. Then dip the child's thumb into green paint and press the thumb pad on the top of the palm print to make the apple stem. Write a special note to the teacher expressing your appreciation for him.
- Bake a tasty treat for the teacher. Make brownies or cookies and put them in a decorative basket or tin can. If you want to be extra creative, make sugar alphabet cookies and ice them in bright colors such as red, blue and yellow. You could also make rice crispy treats and wrap them in pretty tissue paper.
- Instead of buying your teacher real flowers, make her a pot of flowers with pens so she can actually use them. Decorate a plain flower pot using paint or permanent markers. You can put her name on the pot or write "Number one teacher." Add coffee beans or dried legume beans to the pot. Take several pens (Bic pens work the best) and remove the end of the pen. Wrap the pens tightly with green floral tape. Pop the heads from silk flowers and glue them to the tops of the pens. Stick them in the pot so it looks like a potted plant of flowers.
