
These are Crafty DIY Teacher Appreciation Week Gift ideas for teachers. If you want to make your own handmade gift for a teacher, these easy crafts make beautiful and practical gifts for teachers. The easiest DIY gifts for teachers are door decorations, baked treats, key rings, and classroom stationery gift baskets. Use these gifts for Teachers Appreciation Week or as end of year gifts for a teacher.
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Crafty DIY Teacher Appreciation Week Gift Ideas for Teachers
Make a decorative door-hanging made of rulers: Glue rulers onto cardstock, add a wooden letter, flowers, and ribbons. Any teacher would love to receive this.
Make a classroom door wreath from rulers: These wooden rulers were cut in half and glued to a circular base to make a wreath.
Scissors: This is a cute gift for teachers. These scissors are packaged with a tag that reads ‘You’re a Cut above the Rest’.
Make a beautiful mini blackboard sign: Teachers usually have a small blackboard for displaying short notices or greeting messages. Make one by decorating a blank blackboard with rulers as a frame. Flowers can also be added.
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Baked treats for teachers: Lots of baked goods are cute gifts for teachers. Just add a sticker to match the treat.
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Make DIY keychains: Use blank 3″ acrylic keychain blanks to make key rings for teachers. First peel of the clear protective plastic sticker from both sides of the blank acrylic circle, then add on any teacher themed vinyl sticker of your choice.

Simple Card Ideas for Teacher Gifts
Simple gifts can go along with a card to make a thoughtful gift. The use of puns will add humor and teachers will appreciate the thoughtfulness that was put into the gift.
Burt’s Bees teacher gift: The card can just be a flat card with a heading at the top with the words ‘Thank you for BEE-ing a great teacher’. Stick on some Burt’s Bees Lib Balm on it. Get free card templates for this gift here.

Crafty DIY Teacher Appreciation Week Gift Bag Ideas
Use teacher gift bags with Scrach Art panels on the front: These white teacher gift bags come with different colors of tissue kite paper and wooden stylus sticks for the Scratch Art.

You’ll find more crafty Teacher Appreciation Week gift ideas for teachers in these blog posts:
Teacher Appreciation Week Gift Ideas
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Thank You Cards for Teaher Appreciation Week
Free Teachers Appreciation Week Classroom Decorations
Thank You Teacher Notebooks for Teacher Appreciation Week
Teacher Journals as Gifts for Teachers
