5 DIY Gift Ideas Perfect For Teacher’s Day
With Teacher’s Day right around the corner, your kids might be yearning to show their favorite teacher their appreciation. Appreciating and acknowledging the hard work of their teachers helps children value their education more and what better way to show appreciation for your teacher than DIY Gifts made from recycled and eco-friendly material!
DIY Stationery Cups– These are made from recycled plastic bottles, by using the bottom half of the bottle. Your kids can get their creative flow going by choosing to decorate these cups as they want to with fun colors and glitter. You can spruce things up by filling the stationery cup with treats like chocolates, caramels, and stationery like pens, staplers, erasers, etc, and spruce things by covering them with decorative cellophane and tying it all together with a ribbon! You can get your colours here and for pens and other forms of stationery to gift your child’s teacher, check out this site to get a wide variety of options!
Pencil Flower Case– A unique way for your child to show appreciation to their teacher is to make a flower vase for them from scratch…don’t worry, it’s quite simple. Just get a pack of colored pencils, a cylindrical jar, a hot glue gun (should only be used under adult supervision), and decorative flowers. Attach the colored pencils close together and neatly around the cylindrical jar using a hot glue gun. Tie the vase with a ribbon to make a bow and place your flowers in the vase. There you go, a perfectly custom DIY flower vase to show your gratitude to your favorite teacher!
Colorful Crayon Frame– What is a way better way to show your appreciation for your teacher than to gift her a DIY photo frame! It is a simple and sweet way to tell your teacher how much you appreciate them by reliving a cherished memory. Just simply take a piece of cardboard and, using a glue gun, arrange and attach the crayons on the perimeter of the cardboard mimicking a frame. After you have added the number of crayons to your desire, add craft paper to the board and personalize it with a message or a favorite picture!
Paper Flower Bouquet– Flowers are always a great way to show someone you appreciate them and what’s better when you’ve handcrafted the flowers yourself! As your kids get older, it is important to let their creativity grow, making a custom flower bouquet is sure to get their creative juices flowing. You will need different colored chart papers, satin ribbons, glue, and scissors. Draw out a 12×12 inch square on the green chart paper, and make alternate vertical folds to emulate the shape of a fan. Take the ends of the fan and tie them together with a ribbon. Start drawing it out flowers on the different colored chart paper and cut them out accordingly and start sticking them on your DIY bouquet. Pretty, creative, and inventive!
Recycled Tin Pencil Holder– A great way to introduce eco-friendly gifting ideas to your child is by reusing things that you have at home and repurposing them! We all have tin cans that are lying around our homes which we never use. By using lace, burlap thread, and decorative fabric, we can jazz up a tin can making it a perfect gift for your teacher! Clean out the tin, and let it dry. By taking exact measurements of the tin, cut the fabric accordingly, and wrap it around using glue, you may opt to go for multiple layers and then use then wrap the circumference of the tin with the burlap lace and the ribbon to make it look pretty!
These are few DIY Gifts made from recycled and eco-friendly material!
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