Teacher Christmas Gifts

Do you struggle with teacher gift ideas at Christmas time & the end of the year? I sure do.

I always want to do something nice & thoughtful at these times, since they do so much all year. Like a lot of people, I try to avoid the typical mugs & chocolates (although now I wonder if teachers never get those things & miss them? Teacher's comments welcome!!). I also prefer to give something personal, although that isn't always possible depending on how well you know each teacher.

This year I came across some great ideas on the internet. These book page ornaments specifically intrigued me (found here) since one of my child's teacher TRULY loves books and loves to read.

Each one of the ornaments I used:

pages from old books

(provided by my VERY good friend Shelley- you should check out her blog, she is AMAZING artist!)

glass ball ornaments

modpodge

various accents (ribbon, twine, eyelets etc)

For this ornament I used pages from an old torn up  dictionary - I thought that was appropriate for the teacher that LOVES books & to read.

This one I used pages from an old Dutch or German? book. Perfect I thought, for the teacher that teaches my child a second language 

The two ornaments below were from each child to their music teacher:

I then wrapped them in white boxes I had left over from my wedding, and found these really cute FREE tags  to top them off (found here): Voila, hand made gift as unique as each teacher!

Let me know what you think!!