Teacher Appreciation Mexican Fiesta Luncheon

Hello,

Teacher appreciation week is over. For the final day of Teacher Appreciation week, we invited the teachers and staff to join us for a Mexican Fiesta Lunch in the library. If you want to see what we did earlier in the week visit here and here.

Somehow, there was some miscommunication and the first lunch started 40 minutes earlier than expected. Needless to say, myself and some of the other parents and a staff member scrambled to set up as fast as we could! It certainly wasn’t set up as I had envisioned. There were decorations that didn’t get displayed (Such as giant inflatable cactus) and some food that didn’t get placed in nice serving dishes. We did the best we could in a very short amount of time.

However, the teacher’s loved it!  Some even said it was their favorite week of the year. 😀

Upon entering the library, the teachers were greeted and helped to get in a festive kind of mood by hearing fun fiesta music playing.

This was the main table where our teachers ate their lunch.

We did set the tables with bowls of chips & salsa and wrapped silverware. I forgot to take a picture after it was completely set. It looked pretty cute.

The menu:  Shredded Beef, Shredded Chicken, Mexican Rice, Cheesy Corn, Refried Beans, Festive Fruit Salad, Stuffed Peppers, Taco shells, tortilla’s, chips & pico de gallo,  salsa and a ton of toppings. (4 different cheese, sour cream, spicy sour cream, green and black olives, lettuce, tomato, jalapeno, cilantro, white, red and green onion and guacamole).

This was part of the food table…..

Kills me to see the sour cream in their original containers. And the fresh guacamole in that bowl. BTW, the guacamole went fast!

Chips and Pico de gallo (recipe here) served in giant margarita glasses.

The local Mexican bakery was happy to donate a tray of cookies and one of the parents made these little cakes.

We had two buckets filled with drinks. One with Iced Tea and water and the other with several different kinds of soda.

It turned out to be a great lunch!

My brain is already filling up with some ideas for next year. Shhh… don’t tell my husband.

Happy future teacher appreciation weeks to you!

~Betty

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Teacher Appreciation Week – Fruit Baskets, Snack Trays & More

Teacher Appreciation Week 2015 – Day 2

Snacks for the teachers.

I delivered this tray full of snacks and a basket of candy to the teacher’s lounge.

By the next morning. most everything had been devoured. 🙂

Day 3 –

Theme: “We Couldn’t Have Picked Better Teachers!”

Gift:  Fresh fruit and flower pots.

Up close…

And the fresh fruit…

I added little signs to the baskets…

“You’re the APPLE of our eyes”

“ORANGE you glad summer is almost here?

“You’re awesome to the CORE”

“You’re all just PLUM PEAR-fect!”

“We’re BANANAS for you. You’re loved BUNCHES”

Inexpensive and fun!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to you all!

~Betty

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Teacher Appreciation Week 2015 – Superhero Breakfast

Good Morning!

To kick off Teacher Appreciation Week 2015, we started with a Superhero Teacher Breakfast.

Table set and ready to go…

Breakfast Menu:

Sausage & Egg Muffins, Pastries and Muffins, Fruit Salad, Yogurt, Energy Balls and Juice.

Yep, the juice containers wore capes 🙂

Here is a poster we made to welcome our teachers…

Super way to start the week!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to you!

~Betty

Teacher Appreciation Week 2014 – Day 5 Breakfast

Teacher Appreciation Week is over… what a great week for our teacher’s!

We kicked off the week with a Popcorn Bar and mid-week we provided a delicious Chili and Salad Bar Luncheon.

To end the week we treated our teacher’s to  breakfast and a gift.

Good Morning!

A yogurt bar with lots of toppings, including homemade granola…

Even added some bling to the spoons ;)…

Jenna made these cute little loaves of bread…

You’re simply the best juice!..

We gave each of the teachers a gift card (donated from parents). I added the gift cards to these basil plants. I covered aluminum cans with scrapbook paper and embellishments…easy and adorable!

And Nancy put together these sweet Thanks a latte cups…

We truly enjoyed making Teacher Appreciation Week  special for our deserving teachers.

Until next Teacher Appreciation Week!

~Betty

Teacher Appreciation Week 2014 Day 3 Chili and Salad Bar Lunch

We kicked off Teacher Appreciation Week 2014 with a Popcorn Station set up in the Teacher’s lounge.

For Day 3 we provided a delicious Chili & Salad Bar for lunch!

Check it out…

This sign greeted our teachers

I failed to get a picture of the Chili – we had a few different kinds. White Bean Chicken Chili, Vegetarian Chili and a Meaty Chili.  Here are the chili toppings…

And the salad bar…

After our teacher’s reached the end of the salad bar line they were very thankful they weren’t paying by the weight of their plates! Free Salad piled high!

We had dessert and drinks too…

Delicious Banana pudding cups!

Jenna also made these adorable chocolate dipped Oreo “Apples”…

We used those Oreo treats as part of the table centerpieces…

Along with these apples that I added little notes to the scrapbook paper leaves…

So much fun treating our incredible teachers to a special lunch!

To end out this special week, we are providing the teacher’s with breakfast and a gift on Friday.

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week Luncheon to you!

~Betty

Teacher Appreciation Week 2014 Day 1 Popcorn Station

Teacher Appreciation Week 2014 – Day 1

Popcorn Station

We made a cute sign to go with our popcorn theme:

We provided a few different popcorn flavors and a plain popcorn that the teachers could season with their choice of several different popcorn seasonings.

And some movie theater size boxed candy and soda.

A “pop”ular start to their special week!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

~Betty

Teacher Appreciation Week -Day 3 Chocolate Covered Pretzels and Day 4 BBQ Theme Lunch

Teacher Appreciation Week Days 3 and 4

I’m combining Days 3 & 4 of Teacher Appreciation Week. To see what we did for the first 2 days click here for Day 1 and here for Day 2.

Day 3: Chocolate Covered Pretzels.

My sister made these yummy chocolate covered pretzels dipped in different delicious toppings, and I added these cute little tags that I found at Michaels.

I put them on a tray in the teachers lunch room. 

For Day #4, which was a Friday we did a BBQ Themed Lunch for all the teachers. For the lunch we set everything up in the school’s library so we would have more room.

I wrapped all the plasticware with these cute BBQ theme napkins:

We covered the tables in the school library:

Menu:

Smoked Pulled Pork:

Three Different Homemade Sauces:

Mac N Cheese – One of the mothers made two crock pots full of Mac N Cheese and it was Delicious!

Coleslaw

Broccoli Salad:

BLT Potato Salad:

Corn and Black Bean Salad:

Greek Pasta Salad:

Watermelon:

Lemonades & Iced Teas – Simply Lemonade has a new flavor: Blueberry Lemonade…simply yummy!

And Jenna, one of the mothers that worked with me on Teacher Appreciation Week made these lovely

Sunflower Cupcakes!!

I used them as centerpieces on the tables because they were just so darn cute!

Jenna also made the incredible Smoked Pulled Pork and the homemade sauces. Talk about YUM!

We gave every teacher a cute little care package that included a toothbrush (donated by a local dentist), lip balm, hand sanitizer from Bath & Body Works, Tissues and some gum.

 

It was a good week that ended with a delicious BBQ lunch.

All of the teachers were so grateful for everything we did for them. For us moms, we are so very grateful for our hard working teachers!! It was a pleasure to make Teacher Appreciation Week a Special One for them!!

Happy Teacher Appreciation to you!

~Betty

Teacher Appreciation Week – Day 2 Snack and Gift Certificate

Teacher Appreciation Week

Day 2 – Snacks and Gift Certificates 

For day 2, I put together a basket full of wrapped snacks.

Granola Bars, Peanuts, Cereal Bars, Fruit Ropes, Crackers, etc.

We bought a Gift Certificate for each teacher from a local Teacher’s Supply Store.

Simple and Easy but very well received.

For Day 3, my sister is making chocolate dipped pretzels.

Happy Teacher Appreciation to you!

~Betty

If you missed Day 1, we did a Tropical Luau Breakfast. Fun!

Teacher Appreciation Week – Day One: Luau Breakfast

Teacher Appreciation Week

Somehow during last months WOW (PTA) Meeting, another mom thought is was a good idea to volunteer me to organize the schools Teacher Appreciation Week. So me along with two other mothers worked together to make the week very special for the hard working teachers.

There wasn’t any classes on Monday so I had to come up with something for Tuesday – Friday only.

The plan:

Tuesday: Teacher Appreciation Luau Breakfast and a Gift (Box of Chocolate Covered Cherries)

Wednesday: Snacks and a Gift Certificate to local Teacher Supply Store

Thursday: Chocolate Covered Pretzels

Friday: BBQ Themed Lunch and Little Care Packages

Our first day, was the Teacher Appreciation Tropical Luau Breakfast

We decorated and set up the teachers lunch room:

They enjoyed fresh fruit, a basket full of pastries and juice.

We had leis for all of the teachers to wear that had a tag on them that said: “I’m a Teacher What’s your Super Power?”

Each teacher went home with a wrapped box of chocolate covered cherries.

What a great start to the school week! All the teachers were so grateful for what we did for them.

Happy Teacher Appreciation to you!

~Betty

Click Here for what we did on Day 2 of Teacher Appreciation Week

Teacher Appreciation Gifts

How do your kids show appreciation for their teacher(s)?  Show up to school every day?  Pay attention in class? Complete their homework on time?  These are all great ways to show their appreciation but are expected from them too.  Sometimes it’s nice to do something unexpected for the teacher(s).  A little gift is unexpected and most appreciated.

The first full week in May is officially Teacher Appreciation Week.  However, any time during the school year we can surprise the teachers with a gift.  Something homemade, a gift card or a purchased gift are all nice ideas.

The kids wanted to give their teachers something special for Teacher Appreciation Week but we were short on time so this is what we came up with:

Gift Baskets for the teachers…

The gift baskets included some office supplies, mini picture frame, nail files, nail polish, candy & tissues.

Some of the contents for the gift basket

We wrapped it all up and added a flower pen that the kids made. The middle of the flower said:  Thank you for helping me grow. (I would have printed a tag for the flowers but my printer was down.  Still looked cute with the kids handwriting…)

All wrapped and ready to go…

Their teachers LOVED the gift baskets and then I remembered….

What about the Teacher’s Aide?  My daughter has two and they really deserved a little gift too, so this is what we did for them:

We put together little flower pots with a basil plant.  Made little markers one that said “Basil” and the other a flower and the leaf said: “Thank you for helping me Grow.”

How cute are these?

I used foam flowers and butterflies and just glued them to a popsicle stick.

A closer look…

How easy is that?!   Oh, and the cost about $1.50.

It’s nothing super fancy  but I think they are cute and useful.

My daughter was so excited to take them to school today.

These pots would make great hostess and or housewarming gifts, wouldn’t they?

Well, summer vacation is right around the corner so it will be time for us to give the teachers their End of the School Year thank you gifts.  I’m thinking of making these Summer Relaxation Gift Bags that I found on Skip To My Lou, they’re very cool check it out here: http://www.skiptomylou.org/2012/04/21/fun-in-the-sun-summer-relaxtion-kit-teacher-appreciation/

The kids and I will also come up with something for their classmates…. Hmm, what will we make for 70 kids???

Happy Teacher (& Student) Appreciation Gift Making (or purchasing) to you!