2 Easy Cards for Teacher Appreciation Day
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This year it feel like our family won the teacher lottery. Goose is in school 5 days a week now with a fantastic Montessori teacher while Nugget goes to a twice a week preschool with staff that love him like their own. It can be so difficult to hand over the care of your children to someone else and I feel so very blessed that we ended up with amazing teachers that I can trust implicitly. To celebrate Teacher Appreciation Day I wanted to design personalized cards that really show how much we care.
I created the first Bumblebee design for a teacher with a sunny personality who loves flowers and time spent in the garden. The second card features a camping theme for our teacher who loves to spend time in the great outdoors. I feel like both ideas could be so easily adapted for Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, so go ahead and knock out a few of these while you have the supplies out and you’ll be set for the next 3 months!!
Bumblebee Teacher Appreciation Day Card
Isn’t this card adorable? I’m completely in love with it! I think I may try to replicate the design on a canvas to display at home. If it turns out well the grandmothers in our life may be seeing this design soon too!
Supplies:
- Acrylic Paint
in 2-3 Shades of Yellow
- Black Staedtler Triplus Fineliner
Pen or Sharpie Ultra Fine Point
- White Cardstock
in 2-3 Shades of Yellow
Pen or 
Instructions:
- Begin by downloading the card template from my Digital Resource Library – If you aren’t already a member, just click the link below to sign-up and get your access code. It’s completely free and I promise not to spam you 🙂
- Print the card template on your white cardstock and fold the card in half. You may need to cut down your cardstock if you wish to place the card in an envelope.
- Apply a small amount of yellow paint to your child’s finger or thumb and assist them in creating a variety of fingerprints around the text on your card. I like to use 2 shades of yellow to give the card some variety but you can make your bees any shade you like :).
- Allow the card to dry. I’d use this time to scrub Nugget’s hands clean and hide the paint before I find my new cream colored sofa has yellow stripes.
- Now it’s your turn to get artsy (although if you have older children they could definitely manage this step on their own). Get out your fine tip markers and give your bees a couple stripes, some wings and antennae.
- Once your bees look like bees, go back and add a few dotted lines trailing behind them.
- Admire your beautiful card and pat yourself on the back – it looks like you worked way harder than you really did. Everyone is going to hate you (in the best way of course! 😉
Campfire Teacher Appreciation Day Card
Ok, so this card ended up being quite a bit trickier than the bumble bee card but I was very happy with how it turned out. I ended up drawing most of it freehand on a piece of construction paper, but I have a handy template for you to use that should save some time. So gather your supplies and let’s get crafty!
Supplies:
- White cardstock (8.5×11)
- Black Cardstock or Construction Paper
- Acrylic Paint in Red, Orange and Yellow
- Scissors
- Glue
Instructions:
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- Begin by downloading the card template from my Digital Resource Library – If you aren’t already a member, just click the link below to sign-up and get your access code. It’s completely free and I promise not to spam you 🙂
- Print the card template on your white cardstock and fold the card in half. You may need to cut down your cardstock if you wish to place the card in an envelope.
- Print the second page of the card template and cut out the pieces. You should see 2 logs and 1 stick with marshmallows. You can either use the pieces as printed or create your own design using my drawings as inspiration.
- Cut out the rectangular window on the front of your white cardstock.
- Using the front of your card as a template, cut a piece of black paper to line the inside cover of your card. (pro tip: since only a portion of this sheet will show through the window, it may be helpful to trace the window location with pencil so that the campfire design will be in the right spot.)
- Now for the
funmessy part. Convince your toddler to hold their hand perfectly still and flat while you spread red, yellow and orange paint all over it. I guarantee that no matter how many mud pies little darling has made this will be the one day that he decides that he absolutely CANNOT stand to have his hands dirty. - Chase your little one down and tie him to a chair while you clean up the red hand prints that are making your house look like a crime scene. Reapply paint to his hand and hope that threats of bodily harm and the promise of a new BMW will get him to cooperate. Make a hand print on the black paper and hope that it somehow resembles a campfire. (Don’t worry – we can take care of that part later.)
- Clean up your child’s hand and the rest of the mess while the paint dries.
- Once the paint is dry, cut a small slit right at the bottom of the ‘fire’ (where the wrist would be) and slide one or two (or go crazy and add all three!) of the logs you cut out in step 3.
- Secure with glue and tape the entire piece inside the window in your white cardstock. Glue the 2 marshmallow roaster sticks on the front of the card and sign the inside.
- Buy stock in Hallmark because you’re never doing this $%*#$& again.