It’s time for happy teacher appreciation week and you can wrap up fun teacher gifts with these cute sayings! Just pick the perfect teacher appreciation quote from this long list, pair it with a small gift, and you’ll have them appreciating your thoughtfulness.

If you need more inspiration, check out these great Teacher Gift Ideas! From clever gifts and fun tags to decoration ideas, you will find loads of ways to say thank you.

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Teacher Appreciation Week is the first full week in May, but you may want to check with your school to make sure they are using the same dates.  Teacher Appreciation Day 2022 is Tuesday, May 3, 2022.

Cute Sayings for Teacher Appreciation Gifts

Here is a long list of cute teacher puns. These thank you sayings and funny puns work for a variety of small gifts and are a fun way to say many thanks.

flower gifts

  • “Thanks for helping our child ‘bloom'” or “grow” tag with a bouquet of flowers or growing plant
  • Put this “Thanks for helping me grow” tag with flower seeds or a plant

cute Sayings for Teacher Appreciation Food Gifts

  • “You are ‘souper’!” soup mix, custom decorated soup bowls, or homemade soup
  • “We are fortunate to have you” tag with Chinese takeout box filled with fortune cookies
  • “You are one smart cookie” tag with homemade cookies
  • “Thanks for giving me a hand” tag attached to work or garden gloves filled with candy
  • “You rock!” tag with pop rocks, rock candy, Rock Star soft drink, or painted rock for a paperweight
  • “We are ‘nuts’ about you!” tag attached to some nuts
  • “You are the apple of our eye” with a basket of apples (Construction paper leaves with notes of appreciation are a nice touch)
  • “I couldn’t have ‘picked’ a better teacher” tag attached to a fruit basket, or cookies in a berry basket
  • “Shooting for Brownie points” tag attached to a box of brownies
  • “We need ‘S’more’ teachers like you” tag attached to S’mores supplies
  • “Here ‘s a little extra ‘dough’! ” Thanks for all you do!” package with cookie dough or dollar bills
  • “You are the sweetest teacher! Thanks for making me a smart cookie!” plate of cookies
  • “Here’s the scoop… you are the best!” attached to Sundae supplies or gift card for an ice cream shop
  • “We ‘flippin’ love you” with a spatula and cookie, brownie, or cake mix
  • “I am bananas for you” attached to banana bread
  • “You are a joy!” tag attached to an Almond Joy candy bar

Cute Sayings for Teacher’s Appreciation beverage gifts

  • “You are ‘tea’rrific!” tag with a selection of teas
  • “Thank you for quenching my thirst for knowledge” tag attached to a reusable drinking cup
  • “You are an AW-esome teacher” tag attached to a six-pack of A&W root beer
  • We are ‘Soda’ lighted you were our teacher” attached to a favorite soda
  • “You are a ‘Fanta’ stic teacher” tag attached to a bottle of Fanta

Cute Saying for Teaching Supply Gifts

  • “There is no “sub” stitute for you!” tag attached to a gift card from the local sub shop
  • “You wrote the book on being a great teacher!” attached to pencils and books or a gift card from the bookstore
  • “Thanks for holding everything together” tags with fun paper clips
  • “You are ‘sum’ body special” tag with a calculator or math game for the class
  • “Just a note to say you’re special” custom note pads, purchased notepads, or post-it notes
  • “You really measure up” tag with a cool ruler, yardstick, or measuring tape
  • “Thanks for making our school year bright” tag with highlighters for a brilliant teacher
  • “You have been the ‘bright’ spot in our year” tag with a package of highlighters
  • “We are your biggest ‘fan’!” with a cute desk fan, handheld fan, or paper fans
  • “You have been just ‘write’ this year!” package of nice pencils or pens in a case or container
  • “Thank you for making our students bright!” attached to highlighters
  • “You are the ‘highlight’ of my day!” attached to highlighters
  • “I have to ad ‘mitt’ you are one great teacher” oven mitt filled with teaching supplies or other small gifts
  • “You are a cut above” attached to scissors
  • “From my calculations, you are the best teacher!” attached to a calculator

Cute Sayings for gift card gifts

These cute quotes make a gift card extra special!

  • “There is no “sub” stitute for you!” tag attached to a gift card from the local sub shop
  • “Your teaching is right on target” attached to a Target gift card
  • “Thanks a ‘latte!” tag with a gift card from the local coffee shop, special coffees, or travel mug
  • “Here is a ‘pat’ on the back for doing such a great job!” tag attached to a gift certificate for a massage
  • “Thanks for a ‘picture’ perfect year” tag with a movie gift card or nice picture frame

Fun and Thoughtful gifts

  • “Thanks for giving our child a hand” tag with hand lotion
  • “You have been the ‘key’ to our child’s success!” tag attached to a key ring or pretty handmade key chain
  • “Thanks for lighting the way” or “You light up our world” with a flashlight or nice candle
  • “You ‘float’ above the rest” tag attached to a balloon or fun pool float for the summer
  • “Thanks for ‘time’ you spent with me.” tag on a cute clock, fun watch, or pretty appointment book
  • “I am so lucky to have you for a teacher” attached to a lottery ticket or Lucky Charms cereal

Candy Puns

Because every teacher loves a good pun, these thank you teacher sayings are an easy way to take a simple candy bar and make it a fun gift. Incorporating cute phrases will give both your child and their teacher a good chuckle!

You could also write these cute sayings onto a piece of poster board, attach the candy, and give a giant size “sweet” appreciation gift to your teacher! What a great way to make a chocolate bar special.

  • “You are out of this world” tag attached to a Milky Way or Mars candy bar
  • “You deserve an extra Payday” tag attached to a Payday Candy bar
  • “We appreciate the ‘mounds’ of work you do” tag attached to a Mounds candy bar
  • “You are ‘extra’ special” tag attached with a pack of Extra Gum
  • “You are o’fish’ally the best!” tag attached to Goldfish crackers or Swedish Fish
  • “Thanks for helping me become a real ‘smartie’ pants!” tag attached to a package of Smarties
  • “You are worth more than a 100 grand to us!” tag attached to a 100 Grand candy bar
  • “You’re a ‘treasure’ “ tag with Treasures candy
  • “Thanks for all your hard work. You deserve a ‘break’ today!” tag with a Fast-Break candy or McDonald’s gift card.
  • “You ‘mint’ so much to us this year” tag attached to some mints
  • “You’re an ‘amazing’ teacher” tag attached to an Amazing candy bar

How Sweet It Is to Be Taught by You!

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Teacher Appreciation Gift Tags and Printables

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If you liked the funny teacher quotes above, here are 20 of the most popular puntastic sayings for teacher gifts. They are ready for you to download, print on cardstock and attach to a small gift.  This will be your easiest Teacher Appreciation Week ever!

Don’t forget the middle school and high school teachers. The english teachers, the math teachers, the history teacher, and the science teacher. They definitely could use a special thanks during teacher week!

20 Printable Teacher Gift Tags
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You will find tags for books, markers, note cards, candles, pencils, flowers(plants), candles, candy, scissors, duct tape or stickers, oven mitt, coffee, tea, tote bag, calculator or math game, picture frame, flashlight, highlighters, and Sharpie markers. Get the 20 Printable Teacher Appreciation Gift Tags as an immediate download.

Thank You Sayings for Gift Cards

Teacher Appreciation Day quotes are also good for parting gifts on the last day of school, or any time you want to show how much you value all your teachers do. Here are the cutest printable gift card holders for teachers. They are clever gift card message ideas and a cute way to give your teacher a gift card. I have done my research—teachers love gift cards!

More Teacher Gifts Ideas

Don’t miss these other cute ideas for the end-of-school-year teacher gift-giving. These thank you teacher quotes pair a nice saying with something a teacher is sure to love.

This idea is perfect for gifting plants and flowers. There is Thank You for Helping me Grow and Bloom flower puns.

Make this darling plant stake at home and then grab a plant at the grocery store on the way to school for a super cute last-minute gift!

Maybe you just want to say thanks with a handwritten note from your child. This free printable note will help you do just that.

These printable gift tags work on any gift!

These short teacher quotes get to the heart of teaching and will make teachers feel special and appreciated for their hard work. Attach to any gift to express your feelings.

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So many great ways to say thanks to a teacher who is indeed making a difference in the lives of our children and inspiring a love of learning. I hope these teacher appreciation week quotes and gift ideas will help you express your gratitude!

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  1. To # 4 Sarah…are you really a Teacher? If so you apparently are in the wrong profession…so happy you are NOT my Grandson’s Teacher!

  2. This Note is for Sarah. Thanks God you are a former teacher and I feel so sorry for the 30 children you took care in your years of service; as a parent the worst thing is to have an arrogant and careless teacher for my kids. I truly hope teachers like you be smarter and instead of choosing teaching as a career choose a more profitable profession like Engineering or Medicine, but I guess that will also be too hard for you. For all those teachers out there who really love their jobs a huge appreciation in all ways, let me say thank you for making my kids life important and teaching them that good knowledge and good people is what this world should be full of, because teacher are an extension of the parents at school.

    Sarah I hope your retirement be happy and not even your grandsons or granddaughters bother you too much!

  3. For someone like, who has a hard time coming up with things to say to a teacher without coming off too mushy(lol because my child’s teacher this year really has made a huge impact on her) I think these sayings are cute and say thanks in a different and lighthearted way 🙂

    My child’s teacher lives snapple so I got a six pack of snapple and attached a little not that said ‘ thanks for making this year a snap’.

    Anyway thanks for sharing you ideas with all of us 🙂

  4. Thanks so much for this great website and ideas. This year our PTO gave little surprises each day to the teachers and we all LOVED them. It isn’t the size of the gift that matters. It is knowing that your hard work is appreciated. So to all you parents out there who do things like this for your kids’ teachers-Please continue to do so. We really are happy that you appreciate us.

  5. So happy I found this on pinterest today! I think it is important to thank your child’s teacher whenever possible. I don’t think it’s important that the gift be expensive, but something that your child can be involoved in to learn about giving thanks.

    @ Sarah, I was disappointed to find such a negative post on a site designed to give praise to YOUR profession. If you don’t like your job then you are the only one to blame; not the 30 kids that drain the energy out of you. Really? I hope you don’t have kids of your own with that attitude.

  6. I too, debated and mulled over what to do for my teenagers’ teachers. They have truely been a blessing to me. So as I walked around the store, I thought I wanted to give them something special that doesn’t go bad, doesn’t make you fat(since so many of the teachers are health concious. I went with a short vase with the colored blue and green glass stones. I then took pens and bought artificial flowers and floral tape. I attatched the flowers to the pens. The pens stand up in the vases like a bouquet of spring flowers. But I was at a loss for what to write on the plain gift bags. These ideas were GREAT. To Sarah, it’s a good thing you DON’T teach at my kids’ school because you wouldn’t have been given the option to retire. With an attitude like yours, you would have been fired!!!! When teachers are trying to teach kids attiude is one of the hurdles teachers must overcome. You however are not being a very good role model. So how can you honestly expect a classroom of 30 kids to act accordinly if you yourself can’t keep it together. In addition to the cutsey note or tag, I am having MY CHILDREN to hand write a THANK YOU note, depicting why they appreciate them.

  7. Great ideas for appreciating teachers or anyone who makes our lives a little easier. As a current teacher Sarah’s posting was rather disturbing. I am glad that you are a “recently former teacher” because teachers like you give the rest of us a bad rap. Yes, having little notes from students and parents ARE wonderful and I treasure the ones I have gotten in the last 21 years. But(!) they are few and far between. I appreciate ALL the little “rewards” I receive from my students and their parents, even the candy bars with the goofy puns. Sometimes it might just be the comment as they leave the class, “Wow! I can’t believe class is over already!” Or “I really like this book!” Most days it IS just the little things…

  8. @SARAH why do you even teach? You went into this profession knowing the pay is little, and that it’s very hard work. You touch lives everyday and that should be PAY enough. The mini treats and puns are just extra…and should be appreciated. I’m very disappointed in your comment:( I hope your poor attitude doesn’t carry over into your classroom.

  9. I forgot…my son’s teacher is wonderful! he lost his tooth in school, she emailed me and was upset that SHE forgot her card for her camera and couldn’t take a picture right then, for the initial “reveal”! Always a smile, quick replies if emailed, and Ry LOVES his class and her!!

  10. Oh my goodness, I just found this site this morning and LOVE IT!! I am a now, stay at home mom, but before the kids and once they are grown, I will go back to teaching middle school! Love that age! My son just started school this year and my daughter preschool…so I sell Longaberger and got some of their Bloomin’ flowers to attach the “bloom” note to, and did an Longaberger wooden apple (hahaha, won’t go bad!) w/ the apple comment! then the kids signed in a hidden spot also! I am starting w/ PTO this year, so this will be a GREAT site to follow!! Also, I may have missed it, but a star plate or cookie cutter or something starry w/ a “Super Star” or “out of this world” tag might be neat!! Thank you again!! 🙂

  11. Wow Sarah….I’m seriously disgusted by you! If my child were to ever get a teacher like you I’d yank him out of your class so quick!

  12. Teacher, Sarah needs a new profession. Sounds like she’s burned out. Is that truely what she thinks when anyone student or parent makes a kind gesture giving a cute little something, that says we are thinking of you! What, you are expecting something with monitary value $$? Sarah, you knew before going into the profession,that it entailed, including pay…we all have choices. With an attitude like that how effective can you be?

  13. I normally do not post comments on sites but I have to agree with others, Sarah obviously should have retired a long time ago. Sarah must not have appreciated things parents did for her. I have been involved with PTO for years. When you have a limited budget to work with, the PTO cannot go out and buy lavish gifts/gift cards. Maybe she would have preferred that but your ideas are great. It is difficult to come up with ideas because I know teachers receive so many gifts. I would think receiving a small token of appreciation would be mean so much. Sarah needs to remember that parents with PTO volunteer their time and don’t get paid. I have been in my kitchen for almost 4 hours cooking for teacher appreciation week along with making goody bags for 75 faculty/staff. I do PTO because I appreciate all that teachers do in educating our students. Teachers do not get enough respect or appreciation for all that they do but when you have one sour apple like Sarah make ugly comments to you, it makes me upset. I have put hours and hours in planning for teacher appreciation week at the school where my child attends but thinking a teacher has negative comments to make like Sarah honestly makes me not want to do PTO. I feel I am wasting my time and energy in trying to make a special week for everyone if that is how teachers feel (I think Sarah is an exception). If you have negative comments to make, leave them off this site because I think the ideas that have been shared have been ‘GREAT”. Thanks for sharing!!!

  14. Thank you very much for these cute ideas. As a teacher myself, I always appreciate any little gift of thoughtfulness that comes my way. I too pan to use one of these ideas to brighten the day of my fellow teachers. Your sight was exacty what I was looking for today. Thank you for helping to bring a little sunshine into the classroom.

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