Calming jars teacher gifts with poem

I have seen lots of tutorials on how to make these calming jars... so I tried it out on my kids and it works!  Having spent many hours volunteering in my kids' classrooms, I think it would be helpful in the classrooms as well.

They are super easy to make. . . basically you get a water tight bottle or jar of some sort, pour in about half a bottle of Elmer's glitter glue -OR- Elmer's clear gel glue and your own glitter. I prefer this method, as clear gel glue and glitter are cheaper than glitter glue, and then you can mix colors, and add as much glitter as you want (the more the better in my opinion!) Then you fill your jar almost to the top (leave room to shake) with warm water. I also add a few drops of food coloring just to make the water more fun when the glitter is all settled.  Then glue the top onto the container and shake like your life depends on it.

I also composed this little poem to explain how to use the glitter jar which I will attach with a ribbon to make it more "gifty."  Feel free to use this poem on your own glitter jar gifts!

Happy Secretaries day!

Today I made these for the secretaries at my son's school. They are recycled spaghetti sauce jars that I put stickers I cut with my Cricut on. The stickers say 

"You're so awesome that you are worth your weight in jelly beans!" (My new favorite saying.)

Super cute and fun, and super easy to make! 

Happy Secretaries to all you hardworking administrative assistants. Thank you for all that you do!

Cute printable tags for Easter (or visiting teaching) gifts!

I created these to attach to jars full of jellybeans for a gift to the ladies I visit teach.  Feel free to print and use!

Baptism gift

My friend's son was baptized recently and since this is the time of year to get sparklers, I made this cute little gift. The tag says "Thanks for being such a 'sparkling' example of 'chewsing' the right!" I thought it was pretty cute! Follow me on Pinterest!

Spiritual advent

I wanted to make an advent that had meaning, I found this article at LDS.org and I knew I had found my advent. I made a bunch of 3" envelopes on my Cricut, hand cut the tags, and printed the quote, scripture, activity, and song idea from the article. I created a PDF of these, which you can find here. The quote goes on one side of the tag and the scripture/song/activity on the other.  I mounted them on a board, and viola! I got the general idea for the boards from from this pin. http://pinterest.com/pin/285204588871581878/ I actually ended up making 4. One for my family, and some for ladies I Visit Teach, and one for my bestie. The quotes and activities are truly inspired, making each day until Christmas focus a little more on Christ. I really really love the way they turned out!

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End of the year Teacher Gifts!

This was really fun to make. I printed notebook paper onto card stock, and then printed the teacher's initial in very light gray and their name in black at the bottom. I cut the crayons to size, and then hot glued them on! Simple but oh, so very cute! I got this idea from this pin. http://pinterest.com/pin/11653619/

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