PTA Teacher Appreciation Gift - Soap & Febreeze in the Teacher Bathrooms

Friday afternoon, after all of the teachers' doors were decorated, I slipped in to all of the teachers' bathrooms and left these on the sink.   They're not much, but it was definitely something the teachers noticed!

 

Here's a close up of the tags.

If you would like to use these tags for your own PTA,

CLICK HERE.

 

To see a post of some of the Teachers' Doors

CLICK HERE.

Eat, Drink & Be Merry (Again!)

It's that time of year again...time to show our awesome teachers how much we appreciate them!

Last year we picked up some great insulated cups at Wal-Mart, filled them with candy and passed them out to our teachers.

 

This year, we did it again...but chose the blue snowflake cups.  Thought they could use them a little longer since they are not so Christmas specific.

 

If you'd like the FREE PRINTABLE for the Eat, Drink & Be Merry Blue tags,

CLICK HERE.

 

If you'd like the FREE PRINTABLE for the Eat, Drink & Be Merry Red & Green tags,

CLICK HERE.

 

What are some of your favorite Christmas gifts for teachers?

 

Smiles!!!

 

Will share these tags with some of the parties found in the side bar--->

 

 

 



Old School Sack Lunch - PTA Hospitality

This year I plan on sharing some fresh ideas for your elementary PTA hospitality team.

If you are involved with PTA (I highly encourage you to get involved if you have children in school,) you know that most of the budget is spent on programs and items for the school.  We also know that a happy teacher = a happy school.  Hospitality is an important team that has to be creative, often counting on donations and time from the parents at our school.

This year we had about $4 to spend per gift on the 70 teachers & staff at our school.  I started brainstorming ideas, then went to different sites that sell promotional corporate items.

At this site, I found these insulated lunch bags on sale.  The minimum order was 100 but it worked out perfectly as we had a plan for the extra 30 (more on that later in the year!)  It also worked out well  that they only had the navy bags left (our colors are blue and yellow.)

They printed them and shipped them in a timely manner so I was able to get them to the teachers the first week of school.

Now, I don't know about you, but I have a hard time giving someone an empty bag.  There was a little money left in my budget so I priced out some food ideas and came up with an old fashioned peanut butter lunch.  (The teachers' lunches were actually made with white bread, but I didn't want to use one of theirs for the photo op!)  The cookies were fresh baked but from refrigerated cookie dough (it was the most cost effective way.)  I used the small cellophane treat bags from Hobby Lobby to wrap them.  A drink and a banana rounded out the meal.

 

 

 Our theme this year is an old school, vintage schoolhouse theme.

I made these tags to tie on the bags.  The back's were labelled with each teacher's/staff's name.  If you need a label, CLICK HERE for your own free printable.

 

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Oh, I almost forgot.  The bananas got a little label, too!  It says, "We're bananas for Carroll!"  The monkey graphic comes from The Graphics Fairy.  CLICK HERE for the link to the monkey.  Not sure if any of the teachers or staff saw them or not, but I know they were there!

 

If you have any fun, cheap, cute, wonderful ideas for PTA Hospitality, I would love to hear them!

 

Smiles!!!

Sharing with some of the awesome parties found in the sidebar!

Book Labels for Borrowed Books

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but it warrants being said again,

we have great neighbors!

Wonderful, fun, helpful, kind, sweet & generous neighbors.

One set of such fabulous neighbors shared about 20 something books with my son.  

Now, Sweet Neighbor, (SN,) is well past this reading level, but SN has a Sweet Little Sister (SLS) that will be wanting to read these in a few years.

To help ME keep up with which books were SN's and which one were our's, I quickly made some labels....cute, huh? (I made these a while ago, but I'm pretty sure I found the graphics at Graphics Fairy.)

Now, placement in children young reader's books can be tricky.

My guys like to look at ALL of the info availbale in the book...which books do we have...which books do we need, etc.

Making the book labels on standard address labels (Avery 8160) seemed to be the perfect size.

I threw this picture in just to show you an idea of where to place these little labels.

Would you like to create some of these?

Use my template and insert your own name!

For the Bee click HERE!

(I think I was in such a hurry, I forgot to save the butterfly ones to SCRIBD...so sorry!)

Easy peasy!

Would love for you to stop by and share your little lovelies at the Tuesday To Do Party!

Smiles!