Teacher Appreciation

This week is Teacher Appreciation Week! My district, administrators and families, always spoils us this week.  We are being fed like kings and queens! Just today I had a Chick-Fil-A lunch and a fresh fried pie from a local BBQ restaurant.  And a student brought me a lemon Nothing Bundt cake.  I'm telling you - Like. A. Queen.

I try to do something nice for the boys' teachers during this week. The trouble is that I'm usually totally beaten down by this point in the year. I have great ideas in February but no follow through in May.  And I have a weird thing about making things for their teachers.  I like to give food at Christmas and a handmade gift for teacher appreciation.  But, we don't always get to do what we like ;)

I wouldn't say I'm beaten down this year.  It's been a great year.  But I am tired.  And I didn't have any good ideas.  Then I was looking for something in my Google Drive and came across something I had done in the past...S'mores Kits.  I had repackaged graham crackers (very frustrating because they break so easily), marshmallows and chocolate bars into a paper bag with a cute little tag. 

I didn't want to do kits again for a couple of reasons.  1. I couldn't deal with the graham crackers again. 2. the big boys didn't want to deliver anything.  That's when I hit upon the idea of a S'mores Snack Mix. 

I am for sure I've seen this on Pinterest 1000 times.  I did, I just looked it up. There are a 1000 variations of it.  I am not the originator of this idea. 

I mixed 2 large boxes of Golden Grahams cereal, 2 bags of mini marshmallows and 1 large bag of chocolate chips together.  That filled about 3 gallon ziploc bags.  I made 3 batches because I wanted to 2 gallon bags for the middle school, 2 gallon bags for the high school, 1 gallon bag for the HS coach's office and 1 gallon bag for the elementary school office.  I bought 6 super cute square bowls from Party City to serve the mix in. Then I filled 8 paper bags for B's teachers - he still likes delivering. 

Since I'm a 'special'/elective teacher, I always make sure to send things for B's specials teachers - art, computer, library, PE, his behavior specialist.  I also like to keep the office ladies happy!

I printed tags for the bags and table tent style signs to but with the bowls.  Here's a link to the Google Slide for those. 

There ya go! A cute, easy, inexpensive teacher appreciate gift idea.  Go forth and appreciate!