Teacher Appreciation Week

It is teacher appreciation week around here.
Most years there is a theme for every day....bring in a flower, bring in a card.....and so on.  This year there was no theme.  
But I knew I wanted to do something special, for those people that teach and keep my children 5 days out of the week.

I had tons of ideas pinned on Pinterest, but none of them appealed to me.  I did a quick search, scouring more ideas, and this one 'spoke to me'.

So this is what me and my girl "A" made:

Apples & Caramel Dip in a jar
( It really needs a more creative name)

****disclaimer (a big ooops, I accidentally left the main ingredient of caramel out of this picture.  But, then again, I was out of caramel as I had made the goodies the previous night, and this picture was taken the next day)

~ apples (1for each person you are making it for)

~ 8 oz Mason Jars (1 for each person you are making it for)

~ 15 oz Caramel dip

~ 8 oz cream cheese

~ Heath toffee bits

~ clear cellophane bags (big enough to fit the jar, mine are from the gift section at Target)

~ twine or ribbon (I used strands of burlap)

~ tags (as shown below, not pictured in supply picture - oooops)

**optional - I added these cute little pencils I found at TJ Maxx

  

These are the tags I used

As I was taking a picture, my oldest daughter, "J" grabbed her owl ipod case and put it on the "branch"

These are the 8 oz jars, my daughter "A" hand washed and dried.  Thanks girlie!!

~ Mix 8 oz of softened cream cheese with more than half of the caramel dip

~Put several scoops in the bottom of each jar

~ Add a layer of caramel on top

~ Sprinkle toffee bits on top

~ Put each jar in the bottom of a cellophane bag

~ Add an apple on top

~ Tie with your choice of ribbon or twine

~ Add a tag & Voila!

Here is the original link:
http://www.eventtrender.com/blog/2011/11/a-is-for-apple.html

Teacher Appreciation Ideas

Teacher Appreciation is coming up in May.  Here are some items that I made for my girls' teachers last year.

My friend, who has one school age child, was gracious enough to help me make these for all 3 of my girls teachers.  She really went the extra mile.  They weren't the easiest to make.

mini Oreo cookies

red candy melts

pretzel sticks, broken into little pieces (for stems), about 1/2"

watermelon or apple Airhead for the green leaf

(to make the leaves cut the Airheads into small pieces.  Pinch and round            the sides with your fingers to get them in the shape of a leaf)

toothpicks

**optional - foam block to dry

Melt the candy  (I sometimes add a little bit of vegetable shortening)

Insert a toothpick in the mini Oreo

Dip Oreo into the melted chocolate

Placed them into a foam block to dry.

While still wet, place pretzel piece into the top of Oreo

Add in a tiny piece of the green airhead shaped into a leaf at the top.       

      (use a little bit of icing to make it stick)

Let dry on its own or put in fridge to speed up the process

Remove the toothpick.

Package as you desire.

             We put ours in these cute little boxes

original source:

http://www.skiptomylou.org/2011/04/28/mini-oreo-apple-pops-teacher-appreciation/

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We stripped down some hand sanitizer bottles - (we are talking W-D40 baby) , stripped them down clean, 

the kids then helped us add stickers to personalize each teacher