With our movers arriving in just a few days, I was all about making my teacher gifts easy this year. I headed to Target and came up with an easy teacher appreciation gift I love and wanted to share with you! The gift started with finding these checked soft coolers for $3 each – so cute! Target and dollar stores are great places to look for similar ones but you could also just use a cute gift bag too! (post includes affiliate links – see my full disclosure statement {here})
At the back of the store, I found a display with all the makings of S’mores (marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate bars) and some great extendable forks that are perfect for roasting them ({these} roasting sticks are perfect if you prefer to do your shopping online!). Finally, I made a stop in the stationary aisle – are these cards not the cutest?
It took less than 5 minutes to turn my pile of loot:
into a fun teacher gift:
I simply stuffed some tissue paper in the bottom of each cooler, added the S’mores fixings, punched a hole in the corner of the thank-you card, and tied it on with some red and white twine (a past Target dollar bin purchase).
All but one of my daughters’ teachers have young kids so I thought it was a fun teacher appreciation gift that they are sure to enjoy this summer. For the other teacher, I bought a Target gift card and used one of my simple tricks for dressing up gift cards that I blogged about last year:
My girls are now officially out of school – let the summer begin!
Becky {This Is Happiness} says
June 12, 2013 at 8:21 amSuch a really cute idea!
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
June 12, 2013 at 9:12 pmThanks Becky!
Amanda Harmon says
April 16, 2015 at 1:53 pmWhat a cute idea! I saw a cute card on Pinterest with a Teacher Appreciation card that said, “The world could use S’more teachers like you. 🙂 My daughter is in 1st grade, and I think her teacher would love this gift.
Kris @ Driven by Decor says
April 28, 2015 at 10:48 pmLOVE that idea as a saying for going along with this gift! Thanks for sharing it Amanda!!
Kim says
May 28, 2015 at 9:21 pmThanks for this idea! Just put together something similar today after seeing your post, and was happy that it only took going to target and dollar tree to make a cute basket for under $10 each! Totally necessary with 3 kids/6 teachers.
Mackenzie says
March 30, 2018 at 8:15 pmDo you have the brand name for the cooler bags. Or where I could get one because I’ve looked everywhere?
Kris Jarrett says
April 14, 2018 at 12:49 pmUnfortunately I don’t know the brand since I gave all of mine away as gifts. I don’t know where to get them currently – mine came from the Target dollar section.
Anonymous says
August 31, 2018 at 5:27 pmAwesome!!