Dear Friends,

As teachers’ day draws near, I remember my school days and a big hello to all my school friends & teacher’s 🙂
On teacher’s day, the teachers were all given a rest and the older kids from standard tenth came dressed as teachers and conducted classes. As a child we used to enjoy this a lot as the older students would make us play different games from hangman to guess the word or Dumb charade. It used to be fun and at the same time, we used to always look forward to when we would also be “one day teachers”.
School was school and a teacher was a teacher. We were in awe of our teachers. They were to be respected, even feared to some extent, loved and appreciated and it was a constant endeavor to be teacher’s favorite.

Teachers’ day is a celebration in the memory of one such wonderful teacher – DR. SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN. I loved reading about him on this link here : http://pib.nic.in/feature/feyr98/fe0898/f2808981.html

On this teacher’s day, I wanted Aruja to learn to appreciate all that the teachers & mavshis do for her in school. She is yet quite small but I guess, there is no age to start appreciating the people who care for you.

Here’s what we made for her teacher. We generally try to make something which can be used. Mostly done by me but, at this point, I am happy that she wants to sit and rummage through all the crafty stuff and is excited to gift something to her teacher.

TEACHERS’ DAY CRAFT

What you will need:
Scissors & Cutter
Glue
Buttons
Puffed stickers & foam Flowers
Printed card paper & colored card paper
Crop-a-dile for the rivets (you can also use paper punch & brads if you don’t have rivets)
Ice cream sticks
Kitchen scrubbers – we used pink and green
Border punch
Big Flower punch
Compass and pencil to draw a circle.

Method for the Teacher’s writing folder.

Color coordinate the card papers you have and use the border punch for the lovely lace cut effect. If you do not have a border punch, cut strips of the contrasting card papers and glue them on the bottom as borders. Then rivet the top of the page such that the card papers hold together really well. As mentioned above, you can use normal paper punch and brads too. Cut a green or brown card paper into a small pot shape and stick the flower stickers onto it to look as if it’s a plant growing. On the right is a flower punched printed paper. We stuck a foam flower in the center and wrote the message around it.
It says, “Dear teacher, thank you for helping me grow.”

Method for the flower for the mavshi.

Draw a circle with a pencil on the pink scrubber and cut a circle bigger than your punched printed flower. Glue on the scrubber circle, the card paper flower, the flower sticker and the button. Use the green scrubber and cut it into a stem and leaf shape. Attach an ice cream stick behind the stem. We again used the punched card paper flowers for the message which read, ” Thank you for taking care of me.” And for the flower it said, “Keep me in a pot and it will remind you of me.”

We also made these. One more folder and a yellow apple tree 🙂

Do let us know if you liked our craft and if you read the link mentioned above.

Happy teacher’s day to all of you.

Love,
Poornima

PS: If you want to try any of our crafts and need punched card papers, please do get in touch with me.