I'm sorry I was holding out on you with a Teacher Gift Idea, but you see, my preschooler's teachers read my blog (Hi, C and R!;), so I had to wait. Her last day was today, so here you go...hopefully it's not too late;)
My daughter has two (AWESOME) teachers. I did a little research and asked one of the other teachers that I know, if she had any idea what colors the teachers had in their homes. I didn't want to go all bright and yellow for someone who loves neutrals, nor did I want to go all neutral on someone who loves lots of colors, know what I mean? So she helped me out, saying that one had blues and would probably like more neutral things, while it'd be safe to go brighter with the other teacher. I decided to go with my new favorite quickie gift idea - stamps and pretty paper:) I picked up some frames and scrapbook paper, and decided on the quote "to teach is to touch a life forever" to stamp on the paper.
(See this post for the tutorial).
Then I wanted to make them sisal vases and fill with fresh flowers. After I did
my blog post on the one I made for my mom, her teachers commented that they thought it was very cool, so I thought, PERFECT! Then the day before the last day of school, one teacher shows me pictures on her phone of the sisal vase she just made for herself! Uh oh! So I still went ahead and made one for the other teacher, and decided to spray paint a large mason jar for the one who made the sisal vase. I used my favorite spray paint ever, Krylon Ocean Breeze. Just a few quick coats - literally, takes 5 minutes - let it dry and done.
Check out the sisal vase before:
I have a collection of old glasses just for this kind of thing - I'm pretty sure this was an old spaghetti sauce jar!
Some sisal rope, hot glue, and here it is now...
I was hoping my hydrangeas would cooperate and be large enough to fill these vases, but they're just starting to bloom.
So there's the scoop on the teacher gifts this year! Hope you can find something useful for the special teacher(s) in your child's life!
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6 comments:
How adorable! Those are some lucky teachers!
So cute and inexpensive! btw..i tried to spray paint a mason jar with the same color before and mine just didn't come out quite right.. any tips??
Thanks, guys! Kelly, make sure you are spraying from the distance it says on the can (10 inches maybe?), and do very light, quick coats - be sure you don't stay in one spot too long or it'll drip. this jar took about 3 light coats, waiting just a few minutes in between. Good luck!
You just reminded me that I need to think of something more than what I have for my kids' teachers this year. My daughter is leaving the school for the Junior High! (not ready for this!) My son's has been inspired by his teacher to become one! What do you do for a teacher like that? Help!
Love the blog - so maybe we can follow each others blog!? ;)
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I literally jumped (yes all 8 months preggo with twins and JUMPED)off my couch and drove to walmart. I bought fake daisies bc I don't grow them. I may have to now! THANK YOU for sharing this easy project!
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