Teacher End-of-the-Year Gifts

If anything that Pinterest has taught me, is that there is nothing new under the sun.  The following post is all stolen from someone else - in fact, if you look at my decorating in my home, barely anything is my own idea (and even the ones that are mine, I've seen pinned on Pinterest by someone else...so apparently I'm not as creative as I think I am...)  :P  But, I wanted to share my girls' gifts for their teachers this year, even if I can't take full credit for them!

Bus Drivers:
My little girl rides a special bus to preschool and they come right up to my door to get her.  Besides the driver, they also have a helper that helps buckle the preschoolers into their seats, so I wanted to thank them as well!  My older girl just has the one bus driver, so it was easy to copy and paste this for her.  But since Emmie is picked up by one bus in the morning and dropped off at Grandma's house in the afternoon by a different driver/bus, I had to double the gifts for her!!!  Sigh.  Thank goodness this gift was only a couple of bucks a piece.

A bottle of Mt. Dew with Mounds candy bars attached.  Tag reads: Mounds of thanks for all you Dew!  Thanks for getting me to school safely this year!

Teachers:
Emmie goes to a special ed preschool for her speech, so besides the main teacher, she also has 3 EAs in her class.  Well, of course I have to get all four of them something!  I just picked up a large bag of M&Ms and some little spice jars from the Dollar Tree and was inspired by this post for the poem, but I changed it a bit to add the color brown and changed the wording so the poem flowed freely.

Green is for the inspiration you give me each day.

Blue is for your patience in showing the way.

Orange is for your warmth and caring style.

Yellow is for the way you make me smile.

Red is for the love you often show.

Brown is for the learning you give as I grow.

You place knowledge in my hands that melt into my heart and live forever! You're a "Magnificent" & "Marvelous" Teacher! Thank you for being my M&M!

For my older daughter (she, fortunately, only has one teacher, so I spent a little more on her), I got her a tumbler and stuffed individual servings of different flavors of iced tea around a tube (made out of a used toilet paper roll).  This gave the packets stability and created space inside for Ashers to make a personal note/artwork to put inside.  I told her to make something that reflected her favorite memory of her teacher and she's going to draw about the 100th day of school.  The tag that will be on tumbler will say "Thanks for quenching my thirst for knowledge".  I got the idea here.

 And that's it for 2013!  I love Pinterest for the ideas and I feel bad about stealing other's great ones and then blogging about mine (but I do credit when I can).  However, as my drama teacher always told me,

Imitation is the Best Form of Flattery!