7 Best Teacher Gift Project Ideas for the First Day of Kindergarten

The Best Teacher Gift Project ideas!
When a g’little starts kindergarten,
it’s time to make some presents for her to give her very first teacher.

The long awaited day is coming up like a yellow bus on mega-vitamins.

Well, long awaited for one little girl.

The rest of the family?  Not so much.

Kindergarten begins next week.

She’s way too little, says Grandma.  How did this happen?

Well, if it’s going to happen, she’s going to go in style.  (She’s young enough to think Grandma-style is cool.  I hope.)

And Grandma is going to be involved.  Yes, ma’am.  In my day, every teacher loved a gift from a student.  That hasn’t changed, right?  So we’re sharing some best gift project ideas for her first teacher ever! And if you want to steal these ideas, pin this image to your boards for the right time:

Best Teacher Gift Project Ideas

1. Fresh Home Baked Cookies

Bake a batch of cookies with your g’little, then help her package them in individual wrappers.

Then add this cute printable gift tag (just copy and paste it into your favorite computer app for printing):

2. Dressed Up Composition Book “Planner”

Pull out your scrapbooking stash and spend a fun afternoon with a little g’little and lots of glue.

End up with a blank “planner” where her teacher can keep all the sweet notes from her students.

3. Supper in a Jar

Teachers are busy, and always appreciate meal shortcuts.

Assemble one or ten of these mason jar recipes, and she’ll be teacher’s pet for sure! This website’s list contains everything from breakfast, salad and entrée ideas to desserts.

4. Pencil Cup with a stash of sharpened pencils

Every teacher knows her students will inevitably wave a hand in the air one day and say her pencil is broken. The wise teacher has a stash of sharpened pencils ready at a moment’s notice. In case your g’little’s teacher forgot, you can help her out with this cute gift. And printable gift tag (same directions as above).

A fun afternoon with your g’little and these supplies:

• empty, clean tin can such as a soup can
• resin bees*
• rope for wrapping*
• yellow pre-sharpened pencils*
• hot glue and glue gun (be safe around your littles… and yourself)
• gift tag

Will get you this:

Then attach this tag:

5. To-Go Coffee Cup with a coffee gift card inside.

This is the easiest of all these suggestions to assemble. Just make a trip to your favorite coffee shop and ask them for an empty cup and a gift card. Place the gift card in the cup, add the lid, and add a cute card.

Your gift tag could say something like “Welcome back to the grind,” or “You pour your heart into your work. Thank you!”

6. Mini Terrarium/Fairy Garden

This can be a “from-your-stash” project, or a planned project where you pick exactly the right items and plants.

If the terrarium is assembled correctly there should be very little upkeep for the teacher.

This packet of supplies* gets you started with the basics. Pick a container* and the live plants* and set it up with your g’little a week or two before school starts so it can get established.

Apieceofrainbow.com has an in-depth post explaining how to make and tend either an open or closed terrarium. You may want to include helpful tips for the teacher if she’s not acquainted with container growing.

7. Spa Basket

This one is more like a g’little-and-grandma shopping trip to pick up the lotions and potions for a spa basket. Be sure to include “Nivea” lotion. My very first teacher always used that brand of lotion, and shared the extra with her littlest students. Maybe she took too much on purpose, because it certainly warmed my little girl heart when she rubbed her lotion-y hands around my chapped little paws.

I recommend going to a shop like Bath and Body Works and getting one of their excellent bundles, or ordering this one* on Amazon.

Which project would your g’little choose for a Teacher Gift?

And mommy, you can make these with your little, also. It’s just that when my g’littles come over they expect me to have some fun project ideas to occupy them. So I like to be prepared.