Teacher Gifts

What do you do for your day-care provider during the holidays?

Our day-care does an Elf Box that families can donate to, then the Parent Advisor Council (yes, we have one of these at day-care!) goes and buys the teachers/aides /floats gift certificates so that not only the main teachers get recognized. I loved this idea and it made it so much easier than trying to figure out what to get each teacher.

But I wanted to still do a little something for Ellie's main teachers, nothing big- just a thank you for their extra hard work. I checked with the teacher gift expert, my sister Megan, and she gave me a super cute idea that I used. Here it is:

The gifts were based off of this quote-

Thanks for your commit-"mint"

Thanks for your encourage-"mint"

Thanks for your involve-"mint"

Thanks for your invest-"mint"

Thanks for making each day an enjoy-"mint"

Thanks for creating a nice environ-"mint"

Then I put together a variety of mints, package them up with the quote and I was good to go. How easy is that! I included Andes mints, peppermint patties, regular hard mints and those Christmas tree mints that are only out around the holidays.

For Ellie's 0-9 month teachers (she is no longer in the room with them, but they took care of her for the majority of the year) I put the mints in little boxes that I punched out using a die cut at our local scrapbooking store, http://www.heirloomsbydesign.com/. I love Heirlooms By Design and as long as you buy the paper there you can use the die cuts for free! I printed off the saying and matted it to the leftover paper.

For Ellie's current teachers I picked up some tins at Jo-Ann Fabrics for 70% off (it paid to be a little behind in finding something to put the mints in). Then I made cards and matted the saying to cardstock that matched the cards. The design for the cards came from a class I took at the scrapbook store above.

I think they turned out pretty cute. The teachers liked them a lot (one even said she would keep it forever!), so I will call it a success.

Only problem, what do I do next year???