I’m starting to think of end of the year gifts for piano, drama and choir teachers. We may do this again because it is so easy and fun. Plus M&Ms are universally loved. From the archives…
Last year, we gave 18 bags of M&Ms to some very special choir and percussion teachers. Using the instructions from Domestically Speaking, we printed the poem. I emailed Hodgepodgedad and asked him to pick up two big bags of M&Ms from Sam’s Club warehouse store.
We simplified the directions and used the 1 cup measuring cup. Filled press and seal sandwich bags.
This morning, I put the crayons, bags and tape on the kitchen table. Four-year-old did some beautiful coloring.
Great practice with matching the color with the word.
Plus, any project with M&Ms is just plain fun.
The cost of the two big bags of M&Ms from Sam’s was $18. So, all together, about one dollar per teacher. Though each of those precious folks are worth far more than rubies 🙂
Click over to Domestically Speaking to cut and paste the poem. (We modified it a bit since we didn’t use a jar). Then go bless some teachers!
Angie W. says
April 12, 2011 at 7:14 AMThis is a great idea – I will forward it on to my co-op-ey friends. I did click into the post thinking selfishly – that the M&M’s would be a good thing to show up in the Workboxes or such this morning and I was ready to drive to the store . . . . ha ha. I did have a hard time one year we were involved in classes to come up with a simple thank you token outside of a bag of cookies, this would be very sweet!
Hodgepodgemom says
April 12, 2011 at 7:59 AMThat’s a great idea to put all the ingredients in a workbox Angie! Nana found this idea last year for us via her Google Reader 🙂 We’re working on a little something else to pass out to choir teachers this week. Will share soon!
Trish says
April 12, 2011 at 8:11 AMCute! I’m going to use this for the boys’ French teacher! Thanks for re-posting a great idea.
Kim A. says
September 19, 2011 at 5:58 PMI would have loved to get this when I was a first-grade teacher! =-)