“Our Year Looks Bright” Teacher Gift Idea

This afternoon when I got the mail, I had two little bills waiting for me.  Back to school fees.  Eek!  It is hard to believe, but we are already in July and my children only have about 5 more weeks of summer break left!  Where did the summer go!?  I am both excited for them and sad for me but I know that next year will be full of new adventures and great things.  So today I am sharing a really fun and simple teacher gift idea!  And of course I have included a free printable so this is really simple for you and your kiddos to create and to give to their teacher on their first day of school.

This teacher gift idea was inspired by my back to school Colorable Teacher Cards that I created HERE.

I updated the design a little bit and made it the perfect size to fit into these cute chalkboard frames!  But the concept is the same, you can print this off, let your child color it, and create a cute little teacher gift with it!

Supplies needed to make your own teacher gift idea frame:

• 3.75″ Chalkboard Frame
• Our Year Looks Bright Printable
• Chalk Marker
• Scissors
• Markers/Highlighters/Colored Pencils/Crayons

Be sure to snag this free printable:

First I printed my printable and cut out around the black square.  Then we colored in the word “bright” with fun colored markers!  Highlighters, colored pencils or crayons would work too.

Isn’t that pretty fun!?

Then we placed the card into the frame and secured it in place.

And finally, we used our chalk marker to write our teacher’s name on the front of the chalkboard frame.

The best thing about it being a chalkboard frame is that you can erase and redo until you like how the name looks!  We won’t discuss how many times I wrote this name before I was happy with it! Haha.

This teacher gift idea would be cute to package with a new set of markers or highlighters to give to your teacher on the first day of school!  Or it is cute by itself. The options are endless!

What’s your favorite teacher gift idea? Share below!

Ashley

Ashley is an interior designer turned DIY / Craft Blogger located in the Indianapolis area. Her passion for interior design grew into a love of creating and one day she just decided to start blogging about it, at Simply Designing! Ashley loves power tools and her hot glue gun, but her sewing machine slightly scares her. She loves life, finds joy in the simple things, and is a firm believer that a good cup of hot chocolate or ice cream cures most things.