I am having so much fun making teacher gifts! These are for my son's enrichment teachers... Spanish, Music, PE, Art, and Librarian. I wanted something nice but affordable.This is how it happened:
Hobby Lobby has glassware on sale (they do this week too! Until June 4th!) so I grabbed some of these ADORABLE jars! I thought I was going to use baby food jars but when I saw these, I couldn't resist. On sale for only $1 each made it even sweeter! :0)
next I measured the top of the jar. I used my Silhouette to cut out a circle and a pawprint that I thought would fit on top. I first cut them out on regular white paper to make sure the size was right. You don't have to use a Silhouette..you can trace something the right size (such as a little cup, the lid itself...) and print out a pawprint and then trace that. :0)
Once I knew they were the right size, I loaded the yellow/gold cardstock into my silhouette and had it cut out enough circles.
I modpodged the circles to the tops of the jars. I let it dry and did a couple more layers of modpodge.
Then I cut the pawprints out of blue vinyl. (the school colors are blue and gold) I simply placed those on top.
I also cut out blue circles (a bit smaller than the ones for the lids) and yellow/gold tags that say "Just for you".
I modpodged those together and did a few coats of modpodge. After they dried I wrote "Thank you for a great year! Love,...." on the back of each one.
A few strands of curling ribbon and some M&Ms and they were finished!
I LOVE how they turned out!
Cost breakdown:
$1 jar
$1 worth of M&Ms (I got the party size bag for $7, filled all 5 jars and still have some left)
approx. .75 cents in paper and vinyl...(vinyl being the most expensive part but I got mine with a coupon for half off)
around $2.75 each
Super sweet!
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These are stinkin' cute. SEriously.
Thanks! :0)