Budget Friendly Teacher Gifts

I wanted to share what my girls and I did for our end of year teacher gifts.

We had 2 teachers and 5 EAs to give Thank you gifts to for all their hard work this year in the classroom. I needed something that would fit in our budget so we made our own vases and made little flower arrangements.

I picked up 2 bunches of flowers from Costco. They were $12.99 each and divided them up.

We reused glass jars and bottles for our vases. I had saved some floral paper that was wrapped around a bouquet of flowers that my friend gave me for my birthday, so I cut out appropriate sized strips to wrap around the jars. We tacked the paper down with a little glue from a glue stick, then I wrapped some green twine around the paper and tied it into a little bow.

We gave the bigger jars to the teachers and the smaller bottles to the EAs.

I attached a little thank you note to the top of the bottles with some twine that the girls signed.

Our school is a Jane Goodall school which encourages youth to be Environmentally friendly and participate in conservation efforts and sustainability. 

I love any little effort taken to be more eco-concious and reusing these glass jars and paper make these little teacher gifts even more special in my eyes. You know the old saying, "reduce, reuse, recyle"! These gifts are both budget friendly and earth friendly.

Don't forget to thank your kids teachers for all the time and effort they've poured into your childs life this year! 💚