Hooray for Teachers!

This week is teacher appreciation week at our elementary school, and since I am involved with the PTA, I actually knew it was coming a little earlier than in previous years.  My kids have the most amazing teachers this year, so I decided to make a little something special them.  I found instructions for a darling country candle here.  I have made these before, super simple, and super fast.  (I did this project in one afternoon.)  I did change it up a little, made apples instead of hearts, only ONE apple instead of two, and since we can't be lighting fires in school - I filled them with the teacher's favorite treat.  That way, they can use them to hold pencils or whatever later.....

I also found a cute little card to print out here.  I printed one out landscape, and one portrait.  The portrait one came out smaller, and I like it better that way :)

Here are some pictures of my process:

Cute apple, eh?

Starting to paint....

I ended up putting 3 coats of the brown on - that's what happens when you buy cheap paint ....

Red paint......

Plumb paint......

I couldn't find the pen she used in the instructions, so I used this paint pen instead.

Finished jars with the cards....

Have you thanked a teacher today??