Great idea for a teacher gift

When my daughter Ally, age 5, finished preschool, I came up with a cute teacher gift that’s fast, easy and can cost as much or as little as you would like.

I started with a small clay flowerpot and stuck in tufts of green tissue paper. Then I had my daughter make a flower-shaped card, which we attached to a green craft stick stem. On the flower card, Ally wrote, “Thank you for helping me grow! Love, Ally.” Then we stuck the card into the flowerpot with a gift card to a local garden store.

Both of Ally’s teachers loved the gift. And it was so simple to put together.

And it would be easy to change this idea into a gift from a whole class. Each student could make a flower-shaped card to create a whole “bouquet” from the class. A garden store gift card from the whole class could be tucked inside or a bunch of garden-themed gifts, like gardening gloves, clippers, spade, seeds, etc.