Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas

Get ready for Teacher Appreciation Week (May 7th-11th) with these fun teacher gift ideas!

May is such a busy month, but I am here to help you plan ahead and hopefully make Teacher Appreciation week a little bit easier for you!  We all know how great teachers are, and how important they are in the lives of our children.  I think that we can all agree that teachers work hard and deserve a little recognition!  I have some great teacher appreciation gift ideas that teachers love, and that your child will be excited to give! My free printable teacher gifts and free printable tags make for easy teacher appreciation gifts! I want to make this stress-free for you, so I have also rounded up these teacher appreciation ideas and these fun teacher gifts from some top bloggers.

Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas

Teachers love lip balm and these free EOS Teacher Appreciation cards make this simple gift very special!  Choose from different sayings, simply punch cut the circle, and insert the EOS lip balm!  This is a sweet way to appreciate the support staff too!

For those of you who love a practical gift, providing extra school supplies can make a teacher’s day!  This cute free printable for Sharpie markers can be added to any size package of Sharpies, and makes the gift extra special!

This Di-Vine Teacher appreciation gift is super simple, and a plant is easy to find/purchase and makes a wonderful gift for the classroom, or for the teacher to take home.  The plant stake is a yellow No. 2 pencil and gives the gift an extra special touch!

Some years I am on the top of my Pinterest game and I have bought carefully selected gifts for each teacher, or even better, I have handmade personal gifts for each teacher.  Some years….well, a gift card is all my brain can manage.  We’ve all been there (at least, I hope I’m not the only one!)  These free printable gift card holders save the day!  They are super cute, and they make your gift card look extra special, and well thought out.  You’re welcome–I’ve got your back busy mama!

Teacher Appreciation Gifts

How about a fun candy gram! My daughter and I did this for a special 6th grade teacher and we really enjoyed making this crazy little project together. We thought about the candy available in the candy aisle and then worked out a fun story telling how much we love out teacher using the candy.  When we got to the store, we found a couple of more fun candies to use, so we added to the story.  It was so much fun to see how creative my daughter was at story telling! Check out  Shauna and she will show you some great ideas to help get you started! You can find more candy puns and  candy gram sayings here.

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For those of you that love stamping Nichole Heady has some great teacher gift ideas like this basket full of a journal jar, embellished notebook and beautiful card. She also share links for many other ideas!

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Embellished hand sanitizer is a useful gift. Learn how from Lisa Johnson

Michelle Rodgers has a darling candy bar cover.

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Every teacher could use some cute sticky note covers learn how from GreetingArts!

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Sewing is such a personal gift, an teachers appreciate the time that you spend on such special gifts.  At our school teachers must now wear a badge. Cute2Carry offers an easy tutorial for making a pretty lanyard for those badges.

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A cute coffee cozy along with a coffee shop gift certificate would also be an appreciated gift. Pink Milk and Fairycakes has a quick and easy coffee cozy tutorial.

If you knit or crochet try these coffee cozy patterns:
knitted Coffee Cozy pattern
Crochet Coffee Cozy with finger pocket pattern

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Help your teacher take their lunch to school in style with this simple oil cloth lunch sack —filled with a gift certificate to a local sandwich shop would make it extra nice!

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Every teacher could use a bookmark —-attach a note that says, “You wrote the book on being a great teacher” and enclose a gift certificate for your local bookstore to make it extra special!

How About Orange shows us how to make some pretty bookmarks from your favorite fabric.

You can find more handmade bookmark ideas here

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I made these fabric covered steno pads for my children’s teachers. On the first page of the notebook I wrote, “Just a note to say…………………..” You may find the pattern in the shop.

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Little Birdie Secrets has a tutorial for a fancy notebook.

I love these Mod Podge clipboards from Marta.

How about this cute paper cake with a saying, You take the cake!” Heather has a great tutorial.

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More homemade gift ideas can be found here

More teacher appreciation ideas can be found here.