At my daughter’s school, they have themes for each day of Teacher Appreciation Week. And as room mom, it is my job to take that theme and celebrate our teacher. It is a fun challenge, and I am love coming up with teacher gift ideas for my daughter’s wonderful teacher. My favorite so far is the Thank You Teacher Free Printable I created for the kids to fill out. It would also make a great end of the school year teacher gift too.
Monday – Students’ sentiments
Tuesday – A lunch treat
Wednesday – Bouquet day
Thursday – Something sweet
Friday – Free day
As you can see, some are very simple while others allow for more creativity. My favorite days are the less specific ones. Be sure to check out the Crayon Vase I made for Bouquet Day, each child will bring a flower to fill the vase.
To start the week of strong I decided on two projects for students’ sentiments. The first, a framed photo of the class with autographs from all of the kids. Putting it together was easy. I requested time in class last week and had each of the children visit me in the planning room to autograph the mat. Then I added names of all of the kids and the year to a picture I took on the class field trip (text on image edited for privacy), and created a simple but meaningful gift from the students.
The frame I used is no longer available, but this white frame with a large square matt is perfect.
Thank You Teacher
I also wanted something that showed the students. As first graders, this year has been a big year for beginning to learn creative writing, so I wanted to show off everything they learned. So borrowing an idea from a mom with an older student, I created a Thank You Teacher worksheet. Using open-ended questions for the students to answer, I emailed a copy to all of the parents in the asking them to return it completed.
Oh my gosh, I am LOVING the answers I am getting back. So much personality.
To download the free printable, click the link below. You do not need to install anything to download. Please note any banner ads with pictures that say download are not the printable. The only place to download is the link below.
Download your Thank You Teacher Free Printable.
To download, click the link above. It will open in another window, then right-click on it to save it to your desktop. Once it is saved to your computer, you can print it.
More thank you teacher gift ideas:
Traceable Preschool Thank You Note
Heaven says
May 4, 2015 at 7:56 pmThis is delightful and so meaningful. Pinned! Stopping by from Treasure Box Tuesday.
Brenda says
May 5, 2015 at 9:09 pmVery cute ideas! Love the thank you card!
April G. says
May 6, 2015 at 10:09 amThank you so much for sharing this printable. We loved it and used it for our teacher gift today. http://thepinkiebean.blogspot.com/2015/05/make-it-teacher-appreciation-week-candy.html
jen says
May 6, 2015 at 9:36 pmSo cute! Glad you were able to make use of the printable, I am sure your teacher loved it!
Brandi Clevinger says
May 9, 2015 at 7:39 pmThis is really cute! I’m going to print the Thank You note. My daughter will enjoy filling it out. Thank you!
I found your post at Inspire Me Monday.
Cyndee says
May 9, 2015 at 9:02 pmLots of great gift ideas. Thanks for partying with us at Idea Box! See ya back next week!
Jody @easypeasymom says
May 11, 2015 at 9:03 amI love these! Especially the thank you teacher worksheet, the kids answers are always hilarious. I will definitely be pinning this for end of the year teacher gifts. Thanks for sharing!
Melissa says
May 13, 2015 at 5:53 amThis is such an adorable idea! Thanks for sharing on Wake Up Wednesday Linky Party.
Kim says
May 13, 2015 at 11:08 amThe template is great.
Carrie says
May 14, 2015 at 8:52 pmI love the printable! Such a cute idea for an end of year gift too!
Kelly says
May 25, 2015 at 10:31 amI have a few friends that are teachers. Things like this mean so very much to them. They work really hard, and deal with a lot of silliness (from the kids and the political side). Being thanked, by the people they care for the most, is very rewarding.
Lindsey says
May 28, 2015 at 11:38 amThank you so much for sharing this printable! I’m not sure why I spent time getting another teacher gift ready….this totally stole the show! And rightfully so! My son is only three, so I had to write down what he said and changed the questions just a bit, so he would understand them, but his answers were so cute. This is priceless. Thank you!
jen says
May 28, 2015 at 2:24 pmPrecious!!! So glad to hear it was a hit! My daughter’s teacher loved hers too!!! 🙂
TR says
June 11, 2015 at 4:57 pmSorry! Will never visit again. You requirement to download useless software BEFORE being able to get the free download is ridiculous.
jen says
June 11, 2015 at 7:40 pmFor the record, you don’t have to download anything – nothing. The printable is a jpeg, just save it to your computer and print. I don’t ask anyone to download anything, ever. Scroll to the bottom of the post (before “More thank you teacher gift ideas”) and click the link that says, “Download your Thank You Teacher Free Printable.” That will open a jpeg in another window, save and print. That’s it.
Jess says
June 13, 2015 at 9:17 pmI love this teacher worksheet! Just wish it didn’t repeat the question about a favorite memory.
I still plan on printing it out and using it.
Great stuff! Thank you for sharing:)
jen says
June 15, 2015 at 8:53 pmIf you print it out you will see the questions are different. I did it slightly different for my daughter’s class.
kaela says
June 18, 2015 at 3:38 pmCame it be edited when it is downloaded? I notice ‘my favorite memory’ is on there twice and I would like to change it to something else.
jen says
June 18, 2015 at 7:22 pmThe download is different.
Jen says
November 11, 2015 at 6:13 amHi Jen
I love your teacher printable on what they love about their teacher,
are we able to personalise it at all or is it all one graphic ?
Kind regards,
Jen
jen says
November 18, 2015 at 12:28 pmThanks Jen! It is a single graphic, so it is not editable. Although the download is slightly different than the one in the image. The only personalization is your child’s notes 🙂 Enjoy.
Natalie says
May 9, 2016 at 2:42 amHello! I love your free printable idea! I’m am trying to print it and for some reason the font is extra extra large and it’s printing on three pages… wondering how I can get it to print on one page like the one shown on your site. Anyone else have problems like this? How did you fix it? Thank you!
jen says
May 9, 2016 at 9:00 amWhen you click the link to the printable, it will open in a new tab. Right click on the image and save it to your computer. Then you can print the printable directly from your computer. (If you print from the preview screen, it will come out all funky.)
Karen says
May 23, 2016 at 5:58 pmHow do you suggest presenting all the kids completed forms to the teacher? Did you laminate each page? Put it into a photo album? Put it in a 3 ring binder or folder of some sort? This will be a gift from each student in the class to the teachers. Thanks!
jen says
May 24, 2016 at 12:39 pmI had the kids return the pages to me, then I used 3-hole punch to punch holes in them and placed them in a simple paper folder with prongs. I made a cover page and the kids presented it to the teacher. A binder would work, but the paper folder was nice since it is a typical school supply, it felt very appropriate. Have fun with it!
Stacy says
April 26, 2017 at 7:12 pmAwesome in 2017!! Thank you!!
Shannon Younkle says
May 3, 2017 at 12:54 pmI’m so glad I found your awesome printables! My “non-artsy” four-year-old LOVED drawing a picture of her teacher in the little box and answering my questions to complete for teacher appreciation week. Thank you, again!
jen says
May 8, 2017 at 9:43 amI am so glad you guys had fun with it!!!
Kara says
May 3, 2017 at 3:24 pmThank you for the free teacher appreciation template! We personalized it with our teachers name! So cute.
Thanks again!! I love all of your ideas! So creative. Thanks again!
jen says
May 8, 2017 at 9:42 amAwe! Glad you liked it.
Lindsey says
June 5, 2017 at 8:15 pmHow can you personalize it before printing? Do you need Adobe software for that?
jen says
June 7, 2017 at 10:27 amHI Lindsey – No, this one is not customizable. All it needs is your kiddo’s touch to make it custom 🙂
Bonnie says
May 15, 2018 at 4:54 pmHello, would there be any way for me to print this in a larger size without using Word (I don’t have that). My son writes large and it prints fairly small at least not as large as the ones in your examples. Either way thanks for a cute idea!
jen says
May 16, 2018 at 9:46 amThe printable doesn’t use Word. It is a jpeg. To print it, click on the link to open the image in another window. Then right click the image to save it to your computer. From your computer, print the file. Be sure you select fit to page so it fills the whole page. You won’t be able to print it any larger than that, but that should give your son plenty of room even if he writes over some of the text. Enjoy!
Jacqlyn Nowinski says
May 8, 2019 at 12:23 pmHi!
I downloaded the file, but it has the prompt
My favorite subject is …
I was wondering if you had the file that was pictured in your post with the prompt
My favorite memory …
instead.
Thank you for your help!
jen says
May 10, 2019 at 10:49 amHi – My favorite memory is there, it is the last prompt on the printable. 😉