Quick, Cool Teacher Appreciation Gifts

Teacher Appreciation Week is a time to give a little something extra to all the teacher in your life, whether your kids are in preschool, elementary, middle or high school. Here are some low-cost, quick and cool DIY craft gifts to show your appreciation to those special teachers!

Wooden file holder with a blue and white front and Scrabble tiles spelling out a last name

Some years things come together just right and there’s lots of time and inspiration to make really cool handcrafted gifts for all the teachers in your kids’ lives. Like the years we made flower pens or butterfly pens and fingerprint notecards. But then there are the years when you just don’t have the time for all that.

DIY Teacher Appreciation Gifts

You do not need to go crazy here. Teachers are thankful for any simple token of appreciation.

Instead, we found a quick, cool teacher appreciation gift that I am sure our kids’ teachers will love because it is definitely something they’ll use.

We were rockin’ the yard sale front this weekend. It’s that time of the year, so I always have my eye out for a few things–my must-have’s from yard sales–and I found one of ’em.

We spotted a brand, new Scrabble game, and I grabbed it for fifty cents!

If the yard/garage sale gods are not smiling on you and if garage sales just aren’t your thing, you can always try eBay or Amazon. Here are a couple of reasonably priced scrabble tile sets that will be brilliant for this project.

Creative Gift DIY

There are tons of super-cute ways of using Scrabble tiles that could come in handy for a last-minute, quick, cool teacher appreciation gift.

Scrabble tile necklaces
Scrabble tile bracelets
Desktop file holders
Scrabble tile bookmarks
Scrabble tile pencil holders
Scrabble tile tissue box covers
Storage box with an acrostic from their name

All good options… but which one to choose?

Black wooden file holder with Scrabble tile spelling a last name

Cool Desktop File Holder

What it came down to was plain ol’ availability. I ran across some super cute desktop file holders at a local store, already finished and ready to go except for a bit of personalizing. These kinds of things can often be found at Michael’s, JoAnn Fabrics, Hobby Lobby, Target, Walmart, TJ Maxx , Home Goods and many other places. I know most any teacher can find a way to use something like this.

Now to personalize the gifts. This is where those scrabble tiles come in…very simply, we hot-glued the teachers’ names onto the holders.

With a kid-made thank you card place in the slot, these are cool teacher appreciation gifts that we’re 110% sure the teachers will really love and be able to use

They’re super-simple and quick to make, but the added personalization touch makes them pretty special.

And really, with teacher appreciation gifts, you want to give teachers something that they’ll use. For all their hard work and dedication, they deserve as much as we can give them.