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I am looking for some creative ideas for an inexpensive teacher appreciation gift for Christmas. I need to come up with about 80 for Middle school staff. Last year I made the snowman soup and stamped a snowman gift bag and it was perfect! People could easily donate the supplies and it was a cinch to put together. I am looking for something new this year...
Anybody have any cute food ideas?? Santa trail mixes, etc? Would love to hear some ideas--I am in a slump and I need an idea by next Friday so I can start seeking out the donations of food items.
There is a new magazine out, called Paper Made Easy. In the winter issue, there are some great ideas. But the one that comes to mind is called gift drink cups (pg71). They used paper cups (able to hold hot drinks) with lids. The outside were decorated, and instructions (how to make the drink) were hung on a tag. They have 3 recipes listed, the ingredients go in the cup inside palstic bags, one recipe per cup. They seem like they wouldn't be too expesive to make. The magazine is at Walmart and now Michaels. I hope that helps.
oh! I like the drink in a cup idea! I just made some "christmas fudge" ... wrapped up store bought chocolate bars (the nice big ones were on sale this week for a dollar each but you could buy the regular sized hershey bars in quantity) with the poem, a tag and fancy ribbon...also on sale this week at Michaels.
The following isn't mine, but that's where I got my idea from!
If you'd like to follow a similar theme of the Snowman soup, I just saw a Current catalog and they were selling similar types of (premade) bags. Some cute ideas were:
Reindeer noses (Cinnamon candies were inside, but you could use red M&Ms, jelly beans, etc.)
Elf pillows (square peppermints, but you could probably use after-dinner mints too)
Bag of coal (licorice)
[QUOTE=stamper1996]If you'd like to follow a similar theme of the Snowman soup, I just saw a Current catalog and they were selling similar types of (premade) bags. QUOTE]
OMG!! Those were cute and did you see the price?!? $7.99! Thanks for sharing the link though...great ideas to copy!! :o)
How about the Teacher First Aid kit? (I think that's what it is called).
I like Bubble Bath (mini bottles) with Bubble Queen stamp set but you may have male teachers.
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what about 'gifts from a jar'? I have a few books with recipes...similar to snowman soup for different soup or bread mixes, they don't really have cutesy saying to go with them, but if you found something worty, you could stamp a tag with the directions. I've also seen on here (maybe JulieHRR??) had a chai cupshake...I think it was in the Dirty Dozen gallery...
these are cute, and probably pretty inexpensive to make as well...
How about jars of spice tea? You could make a big it in big batches an pour it in small mason type jars - I am sure you could find the smaller ones cheap somewhere or get them donated. Then decorate the lid (ribbon / papper / material / whatever) and stamp a tag
I have heard of other versions but, this is the one I make and so did my mom ( a million years ago in the 70's)
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups Tang
3/4 cup Instant Tea
1 sm package of Wylers' Lemonade Mix
1 sm 3 oz package of Orange Jello (I have heard of friends using Orange - Pineapple jello)
1/4 teaspoon Allspice
1/2 teaspoon Cloves
2 teaspoon Cinnamon
Mix ingredients together and store in a glass jar in a dry place.(If it is not sealed well you get a nice solid brick of stuff.) For a delcious drink use 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 teaspoons mix to a cup of hot water.
SInce this is about 5 cups of dry ingredients it is way more than you need for a single large mason jar filled to the rim - so I am sure it would make at least 4 or 5 small jars (apx 1+ cup each - I forget how much the small mason jars hold)
If you'd like to follow a similar theme of the Snowman soup, I just saw a Current catalog and they were selling similar types of (premade) bags. QUOTE]
OMG!! Those were cute and did you see the price?!? $7.99! Thanks for sharing the link though...great ideas to copy!! :o)
I guess I didn't say in my original message that they are good ideas to copy (not buy)! Yeah, I thought the price was high too for what you got.
All my teacher friends say what they need most is supplies. I normally always give my DD's teacher a jar filled with pens, pencils, sticky notes and paper clips. You could stamp neat tags to put on the jars. Or do it in a gift bag.
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