Lisa Storms

teacher appreciation treat with printable tags

Teacher Appreciation Week is finally here!  Today we sent in a little treat to start off the week.  We made "candy apples" by covering Ferrero Rochers with red tissue paper.

I stuck a couple into a little treat bag and simply topped with a paper doily and tag.  I figured someone else might be able to make use of the tags, so I am going to try to attach them here as a pdf for download.  Let's see if I can figure this out lol!

pdf download: Download Class_act_tag

I punched the tags out with my 2" Fiskars circle punch.  They can be used on any teacher gift you give this week.

So here's how to make the apples:

1. Cut out a 6" circle of red tissue paper (I traced a Fiskars Super Sized Circles template).  Since tissue is so thin, you can cut a bunch out at once if you are making multiple.
2. Place a mini glue dot at the bottom of a Ferroro Rocher and stick down in the center of one circle.
3. Wrap the sides up around candy and twist at top.
4. Twist a small piece of masking tape colored brown with a Sharpie marker around the twisted top to secure and serve as a stem.  Trim off excess.  You may want to color in top of stem with your Sharpie if the red shows through after trimming.
5. Punch a small circle of green cardstock and feed back into punch partially to create leaf; attach with mini glue dot.

I'm busy planning the next "thank you" and will post when I'm done!  In the meantime, don't miss the teacher cards I posted last week here.

teacher appreciation week

The past few weeks have been insane around here, but I wanted to pop by to share a few card ideas for Teacher Appreciation Week since it's coming up next week.  I should have some gift ideas to share Monday, too, as I plan on having time this weekend to do a few more things I have rattling around in my head.

You can find all of the directions with full photos here at the Fiskars site.  From adding a super simple leaf to an apple for creative presentation ...

... to crafting up an award ribbon that doubles as a card ...

... or getting extra creative with an apple core card.

paper fortune cookie valentines

We are finally ready for Valentine's Day!  We just finished up the teacher Valentines, and they turned out super cute.  Today I had a change of plans as my original idea just didn't seem very "valentiney" ... so I'm saving it for Teacher Appreciation Week or an end of school gift and will share later. Had to come up with something last-minute with what I had on-hand.

We made paper fortune cookies with an "I'm fortunate to have you as a teacher" kind of filling.  I won't bother with instructions on making these as they are all over the internet already much better than I could explain. 

The kids were amazed how cool it was to make these out of a circle of paper.  So once we were done, I couldn't figure out a way to address them that I liked.  So I ended up cutting out take-out boxes using my Silhouette.  If you have a Silhouette, the box I used is called take_out_box_c00698_18816.  I mention it specifically because I highly recommend it.  Went together very easily. 

I printed the boxes just big enough to fit a cookie inside and added a simple label using a font called Bonzai.  These were easy, and I just think they are the cutest.  =)

rudolph cake pops

I've been wanting to try Bakerella's cake pops that I am seeing everywhere and thought adding some to teacher gifts would be a good excuse!  I did them kind of "upside-down" as I envisioned adding little tags and plopping them down individually onto desks (like in the front office) to stand up on their own.

I used red M&M's for the noses and little pearl sprinkles with food marker for eyes.  I have to admit these are kind of addictive to make ... and eat.  What a fun way to eat a bite of cake without a mess.

I wrapped them in lollipop bags and cinched close with a brown chenille stem.  I formed a kind of "heart" at each end and them flattened them and twisted to secure to form simple antlers.  I twisted one onto each of the gift bags for the teachers using the antlers without realizing this would make the bag fall right over.  So I just added another pop inside to balance it out.  Twice as yummy I guess!