(Another) Teacher Appreciation Week Free Printable!

I'm sorry to be posting this at 3:30am! Question: does Teacher Appreciation Week always fall on the same week as Mother's Day?

Because I wasn't as on top of things as I wanted to be (as previously mentioned), so tonight found me potting and prettying 2 flowered plants, creating and packaging SIX Mother's Day gifts that needed to get in the mail now, finishing up one bow & headband holder to start on another, and cutting/packaging/shipping half a dozen card orders for JJD. All tonight, after we got home from church at 9pm. So yeah, 3:30 here and I am just now sitting down to work. Hoping I can be in bed by 4 and that Jory lets me sleep past 7.

Ok but as promised, here's a quick & lovely Teacher Appreciation gift.

The pots were on clearance at Michael's for $1 each (I saw similar ones in the Target Dollar Bin if you don't have a Michael's close), soil was $1.20 for a gigantic bag, and the plants were 99 cents each. I had the plastic pinwheels on hand in my party planning stash, but those were from Dollar Tree and came in a pack of 6. I used a couple wooden skewers that I had for the little label, which you can print off for yourself. :)

For items that I glue to skewers, I generally like to stick a back on there, so that's what the blank ones are. But you could totally let your little learner draw a picture or something on them too! (click to enlarge & right click to save!)

Teacher Appreciation Week - FREE Printable!

If you're anything like me, you may not have known that this week was Teacher Appreciation Week. I'd love to be one of those moms who is on top of every "appreciation" holiday and giving credit (& giving back) where credit is due (in my defense, after meeting Jax's teachers I totally looked up when Teacher Appreciation Week is, because I wanted to do something!), but between the move and the sickness, this year was not my year, as it totally snuck up on me.

However, we do love Jax's teachers. They're so beyond patient with him and constantly keeping me updated on his progress and struggles and they're basically sweet as pie.

So I was trying to come up with something we could give them that wouldn't be super expensive but would still be a nice little treat.

We just so happened to have made these cookies last night (thanks Allison for the yummy recipe!), so we had a huge batch of them just sitting in the pantry. I filled a couple wide mouth mason jars with cookies, stuck a circle scrap of vintage fabric on top, and tied a tag I made onto each with some pretty ribbon. Voila, teacher gift!

It's nothing fancy or extravagant, but I hope they know that we definitely do appreciate all the hard work that goes into their day! I used to teach Pre-K and corralling over 20 four-year-olds and trying to actually teach them something is no small task!

Click on any of the above files to see it larger, then right click and save it to your computer for printing.
The sheet with 6 tags is formatted to print on 8.5x11" paper. :)

I am planning to send Jax with a couple little potted flowers for them on Thursday, and I'll be making a printable for that on Wednesday, so if you like that idea too/better, be sure to check back then for a printable for flowers or a plant!