A Clean Teacher Appreciation Gift
December 15, 2009 by Missy
Teacher Appreciation Gifts
We had a few requests for more teacher gift ideas so here you go!
This practical teacher gift idea is always needed! Now you can personalize it for your teachers.
I have seen a few different tutorials out there on how to make these, but Alison had a different spin on it with, of course, vinyl. And, I might add, she took these pictures – is she getting good or what?
1. Buy your soap or anti-bacterial stuff (you can get them at the dollar store). This is a fun way to give something inexpensive, but to make it unique! During this flu season I think your teachers will be grateful:)
2. Peel off your labels.
3. Use a goo remover. If you let it sit for a minute then it wipes off easily.
4. Wash it off with dish soap.
5. Apply vinyl.
6. Add ribbon. The bigger bottle is hand sanitizer.
Don’t have access to vinyl??
Some of the other tutorials I saw said to print your lettering on velum and then put it on the inside of the bottle where it would show through. I liked this vinyl method, however, because then the recipient can re-fill it when it runs out!
Here are some links to other ideas I found:
Post It holder from sistersstuff. She just used a plastic frame from the dollar store, framed a cute piece of scrapbook paper, put post-it notes on the top of the frame, and added some ribbon. EASY - my kind of craft!
A clever way to wrap up some goodies from Family Fun.
Our Best Bites had this fun idea for chocolate turtles.
These are really easy. I have my kids help arrange the THREE ingredients and that’s really all there is to it. I haven’t made these particular ones, but I have made something similar with pretzels, Hersey kisses, and m&ms. You just put the Hersey kisses on the pretzels (I like the square ones for this), bake them until they are soft, put an m&m on top and squish it down (the fun part). They taste like chocolate covered pretzels, but much easier!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I love the hand sanitizer idea and I wanted to do something with vinyl AND I wanted it to be cheap and easy (a lot like me…wait, that doesn’t sound right) but I wasn’t sure what, anyway, love this idea, thank you!!
I absolutely LOVE all of your ideas, but especially the ones that use the Vinyl….I need a Cricut or atleast a vinyl lady….LOL Thanks for this fabulous, yet inexpensive idea!
WOWWW
they are super cute! love the vinyl-stuff! great job
I LOVE the soap! Thank you for such great, inexpensive and creative ideas!
Cute stuff, I love the soap idea, wonderful!
It’s great to see that the world is returning to homemade gifts! I’ve been frugal for a looooooong time.
I spent several years in education, THANK YOU for practical, useful teacher gift ideas!I’ve seen teachers leaving for home with wagons full of coffee cups, more “A+ Teacher” figurines, etc… most of which ends up at a thrift store. FYI: Teachers love/need items that are actually useful,or have nothing to do with being a teacher! (if you’re not going to be frugal… gift cards for a restaurant are great!)
where do i find a vinyl lady?
We use http://www.mytalkingwalls.com
She has been great for us and we love her prices!
Darling idea. I’m gonna try this.
Where do you find the vinyl ???
You can try here, http://vinylwallexpressions.com/
Thanks for the great idea,I plan to make several with different phrases and tie with Christmas ribbon.I will keep them for drop in guests, hair stylist and for quick thank yous.
Sandy
This would be perfect for me, I am such a germaphobe!!
Such a good idea! I included a link to it in my top 23 Fav Teacher Gift Tutorials round-up! Thanks ladies!
i love this idea!!