Cards for Teachers

Totally up to you. You could purchase a "Thank you" card or "Special Person" Card. If you go to a Hallmark store many times they have Teacher Cards.

Most that I have seen the children have taken construction paper or card stock and folded it into a card to do their own art work. Or they print out their own card using a computer and printer, I also like the ones that they have a photo of the child attached to the homemade card so the teacher can remember the child.

For my kids' teachers we made thank you cards with a flower on them. For each kid we traced and cut out one hands 6 times (4 in one color, 2 in green), cut them out and glued them onto construction paper. The 4 of the same color we made into the bloom of a flower (glued palms on top of each other with fingers sticking out to form a circlular bloom) and gluded them at the top of the construction paper (place the construction paper long-ways from top to bottom). The 2 green ones we made into the leaves (placed palms on the bottom, fingers pointing up and thumbs overlapping) on the bottom of the construction paper. They used a green crayon to draw the stem. On the front of the card they wrote, "Mrs. X, Thank you for helping me" and on the flower they wrote "bloom", then signed their names on the leaves. The cards were able to be folded in half easily because the bloom and leves weren't in the middle of the paper.

I was originally going to paint their handprints onto the cards, but we were making them the same day as we were giving them and we didn't have time for the paint to dry. So, knowing my kids would be impatient with all that cutting, I reduced the hand tracing and cutting by folding paper in half, allowing us to trace once and cut once to make 2 hand cutouts at one time.

We gave my son's preschool teachers potted herbs (we painted the pots) and a card that he wrote out saying 'thank you for helping me learn and grow.' He's not much in to arts/crafts, so I borrowed a friend's die-cutter (Martha Steward from Kmart - I think people use them for scrapbooking) and cut out leaves and birds around the edges of some card stock and glued his note to the card.

I prefer homemade, but either is good. Pick a few flowers or make paper flowers with pipe cleaner stems. They can come out very pretty. For little kids, you can trace both hands and wrap the cut out of the hands onto green pipe cleaners. they look like lillys. Have fun!
S.

I saw cards for teachers in Walmart yesterday. I also saw them is riteaid and CVS. Hope this helps