Teacher Appreciation Door Decorations 2014

Finally as promised~Teacher Appreciation

 Door Decorations for 2014!

This year I got to do 3 doors, one for my daughter's teacher:

                                        

This year they have been learning all about Idaho State History~so Cowboys, Indians, Pioneers and all things cool about Idaho the famous Gem State and producer of Potatoes!  Mrs. West has been phenomenal and I'm glad that my girl got her for a teacher since she is retiring. I found an old movie poster for my inspiration and painted a version of her.  It's really quite hard to do something~paint, paper~whatever on a scale this size.  I've learned to "GO BIG OR GO HOME"!  My daughter helped me paint and I cut all the letters out with my Cricut.

One for our Librarian:

This one was easy~just the idea since we were seated near our favorite librarian when we went to go see Wicked a few weeks ago.  Can I just say~WE LOVED IT!  There is no other music played in the car or house right now except Wicked music.:)  I cut everything out of paper and painted on the skin color for Glinda and the facial features.  Letters I cut out with my Cricut.

One for our Head Janitor/Mr. Does Everything for our school:

I painted this one again.  Paint sounds crazy right~it actually is a lot easier than trying to cut all that paper to scale.  I cut him out of paper first and then painted him.  Mr. Ernie collects all thing Ernie, as you can imagine, and knew this would be perfect for him.  I was delighted to hear that he was going to have it laminated to hang up later.  Cool!

Here are the other doors this year~some really fun ones!  I especially liked the Rock Star one, The Minion was hilarious and still makes me smile every time I walk by it and of course the Taco's for the Lunch Ladies.

We decorate every staff members doors for the week and they keep them up until the end of the year.  It doesn't seem like a very big deal but our teachers absolutely love it!  I have offered to do all the door decorations next year~sorta like my parting gift to the school as my daughter will move on to Middle School~oh, that sounds like a curse word to my ears!  I'm thinking I'm a bit crazy and I didn't think the PTO would take me up on it!

I'm always loving to hear what everyone else does for Teacher Appreciation Week.  We provide a potluck lunch every day for our staff, usually with a theme like Baked Potato Bar, Soup, Salad Bar, stuff like that.  We do gift card drawings each day for our teachers.  We decorate their doors and then each class has their own list of things to do each day~anything from a sweet treat, bringing in a flower or even just a thank you card.  It's really a tender week for all involved and it feels so good to give back.

What do you do at your school?

Teacher Appreciation Door Sign

This week has been C*R*A*Z*Y!!!!
We've gotten such great feed back from our school on how
spoiled the teachers all felt!
I love hearing that!
Our final gift this week was a door sign for my daughter's teacher.
I made one a couple of years ago for her other teacher
who had just gotten married.

I cut out a cute pencil shape and decoupaged papers and letters onto the front.
I think this one turned out fun too!
I'm going to list them in my Etsy shop if anyone is interested for end of year teacher gifts.

The funniest thing about this week was yesterday as I chatted and confirmed that I had the sign all done with my Co-Room Mom Meghan~who also teaches at another school, she said that she wished that one of her students would make a sign for her!  I could barely keep a straight face since I had just finished making one for her too!  I hope all of the wonderful teachers out there know how much they are loved!  Thank you for all you do to help our little ones!

Teacher Appreciation Door Decorations 2013

I promised you door decor and here it is!
This year my daughter and I decided to do a Harry Potter themed door for her classroom.
Her class of friends have all started reading the first few Harry Potter books
and they have their own version of Harry Potter tag they play at recess, so it seemed fitting.
Her teacher is dressed up as Professor McGonagall casting a "Smartify" spell!
I personally think it's hilarious and so does my kid~so that's all that matters.
Her teacher said it filled up her Happy Well for the day~and that made my day!

I always beg to do the Librarian's door because she is one of my favorites at our school!
I have a thing for paper fringe right now and new it would work great with this Lion!  Yes, the lion has apparently been snacking on a few too many zebras, my daughter scolded me when she got home and saw it.  I guess it was supposed to look more like a Littlest Pet Shop lion....

Here's all the other doors!

I personally loved the scrubbing bubble door for the janitors~so cute!

The ice cream cone is completely 3-D, with Ikea kid plates wrapped in cellophane to mimic candy!

Didn't they turn out cute!?!

We celebrate all week long at our school.  Our PTO and volunteers provide a potluck lunch, each day with a different theme, all week long.  I'm in charge on Wednesday with "Finger Foods"~so all things appetizers.  I thought it would be a fun twist for this year.  We do all sorts of raffles and prizes for the teachers all week long as well as each individual class doing their own list of things.  Tell us, what do you do at your school to celebrate Teacher Appreciation?