It is time.
With the field trips, summer camp sign ups, permission slips, and year-end performances it’s easy to forget the people who are most excited about school ending: the teachers.
I usually stick to consumable items – like gift cards and food.
- We made Brownies In A Jar for Valentine’s Day.
- Christmas gifts were restaurant gift cards, but we’ve also relied on their tasty cousin, Chili In A Jar. Easy. Perfectly acceptable.
- As a class gift (that can easily be tossed in the trash once the ‘artists’ have gone home for the summer without guilt), we’ve made Tissue Paper Flowers too.
- I’m back in a ‘kit’ mood this year; much like my Grilling and BBQ Kit from a few years ago.
- And before that; Ice Cream Party Kits.
Writing this post is really bringing to light the excessive amount of time I have spent putting together Teacher’s Gifts in the past four years.
It’s just kind of…what I do. I saw this idea somewhere that I can no longer recall, and decided it would be this year’s project. If I were a teacher, I would start looking forward to laying on the beach or by a pool and reading a nice book starting in about, oh, October. Beach towels are not consumable, of course, but how often do you think, “Man. I really have to do something about all of these beach towels? They’re simply taking over my house.”
First, I went to Tuesday Morning which doesn’t happen that often because on my side of town is kind of nasty and the people are grouchy. It’s a shame. But they have very, very nice, expensive beach towels for $15. I also grabbed some ribbon while I was there too, for about $3.00.
Then I found some sunscreen samples. I was going to put a full sized bottle with the towels, but I am on a budget (you can see that I need limits, yes?) and that would have cut into the next part of the gift; Family Christian Bookstore gift cards. Yes, my kids go to a Charter school. Yes, it is a public school. Unlike regular public schools though, students and teachers are actually allowed to talk about their own faith so I know that this choice of bookstores will not be any problem whatsoever 
Here is the end result:
Do you ‘do’ teacher’s gifts? What are you getting your kids’ teachers this year?
The Spoon Man
We had a fantastic Spring Break, right here in Grand Rapids.
