Teacher Thank You {Hand Sanitizer}

Teachers always need Sanitizer.  You don't want to even think about the germs we encounter each day.  This post will show you how to take these already cute pocket sanitizers:

and turn them into an easy to make gift for your teacher or anyone who has lend you a helping hand:

A few months ago Bath and Body Works had a great sale on their pocket size sanitizers.  I don't remember how great, but I believe they ended up being just over a quarter a piece.  I bought a bunch and then decided to save them for teacher appreciation week. 
Since my giving at the middle school has lacked I decided to give them to the staff at my daughter's middle school (she has a much smaller school than the elementary) and we will also give them to the specialists, my kids' teachers, and office staff at the elementary school. 
For those that know me know that I couldn't just hand over the sanitizers, I had to find a saying.  I searched the Internet, but didn't find any sayings that would work so I ended up making up my own.  Here is what I came up with:

We are grateful for the hands that have helped us this year!

or

I am grateful for the hands that have helped me this year!

Even though I didn't find what I was looking for in my search for sayings, I was lucky enough to stumble upon a tutorial for a cute holder for the sanitizer over at whatever Dee Dee wants.


Here is what I did:
Supplies: Paper cutter, Paper Scorer, 1 inch circle paper punch, card stock, 2 inch circle paper punch and/or flower Stampin' Up punch, and the free printables at the end of this post.
I found a site that has free printables.  They are actually for a wedding, but I found one that worked for this.  You can use it to, go to The Wedding Chicks and click on the escort tab.  The color combination's I used are Antique Pink with Light Gray, Perfect Pink with Dark Gray, Tiffany Blue with Chocolate, Vibrant Yellow with Light Gray.  Print the design on card stock (or you can use printed/plain card stock). 
Next you need to score your paper.  If you use the Chevron style that I did make sure your paper is facing the correct direction.

First score at 2 inches:

 Score at 3 inches:

 Then Score at 6 1/2 inches:

 And again at 7 1/2 inches:

 Next at 9 3/4 inches:

 And finally at 10 3/4 inches:

 Trim off the white edge (on the long side) and cut a strip 2 inches by 11 inches:

You are going to punch at the end with the little tab (1/4 inch tab).  My punch wasn't deep enough to punch the hole so I had to fold over the tab and then punch.  I punched it in a little further so that it wouldn't punch completely through the tab, but it punched a little onto the other side.  When completed it doesn't look bad.  If you have the Stampin' Up punch it will fit perfectly in between the scored lines without folding over the tab.

Fold on your scored lines.  Use adhesive (I used a tape runner) and put it on your tab:

 Slide the hand sanitizer through the hole,

 fold over the tab and adhere to the back:

 Put adhesive on the inside of the end flap, fold over and seal:

 It will now be in a cute box.  Print and punch out the printables.  Adhere to the flap above the design:

Sideview:

I hope that all make sense.  It seems the only time I have to do these posts are late at night (we are pushing midnight ~ hopefully I can get the printables linked before I hit the sack.  Hmmm, might need a Dr. Pepper at school tomorrow).
I have lots of options for the printables.  There are the four color combinations, two sizes (one for the flower punch one for the 2 inch circle punch), and 2 wording options (one has 'I' the other 'we').  Here are some examples:

Here are the printables:

 Dark (Perfect) Pink/Dark Gray Circle 'I'

Dark Pink Circle 'We'

Dark Pink and Blue Flower 'I'

Dark Pink and Blue Flower 'We'

Blue/Brown Circle 'I'

Blue Circle 'We'

Light (Vintage) Pink/Light Gray Circle 'I'

Light Pink Circle 'We'

Light Pink & Yellow Flower 'I'

Light Pink & Yellow Flower 'We'

Yellow/Light Gray Circle 'We'

Yellow Circle 'I'

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I plan to make a few more sayings to go with the hand sanitizer and possibly make them in a bigger size too.  For now these will also work tied around a larger bottle of sanitizer.

A couple more pictures of the work in progress:

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Monthly School Idea: Football

I made this tag awhile ago, but it appears that I forgot to post it.  At this time I can't find pictures so maybe I didn't take any.  I think I didn't post it because I was thinking about making more tags with more sayings, but I better get these out now.  Here is what the tag looks like:

I just trimmed these up (you could layer it with some gold or dark green paper), punched some holes in the ends, threaded ribbon through, and then tied it around the football.  I purchased Nerf footballs.  The second graders use it all the time, but the fifth graders prefer the "real" kind.

DOWNLOAD FOOTBALL TAG HERE.
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Why I've Been Gone

Spring break was the perfect time to get caught up on the blog, right.  Nope.  This year was a busy time.  My family (most of whom I hadn't seen for 3 years including 2 nephews I hadn't met) came out for my Boo's baptism.  Before Spring Break I had been busy getting ready for the baptism, watching General Conference and getting ready for visitors (I think a birthday was in there too).  After spring break I've been trying to get caught up on everything that I missed and start planting a garden.  Here are some of my distractions:
Baptism Pictures in between sessions on Sunday:

 Dyeing Eggs with the Cousins on Friday:

Baptism on Saturday (longer post coming with printables):

Followed by time at the park:

Then it was Easter:

The next day we went to the Zoo:

We also had a picnic lunch, swimming, touring a civil war house, an attempt at cousin pictures, a day of shopping & lunch, and much more.  It was a fun week and I miss my family again, but it was so good to see them and play with the nephews.  We did miss one nephew and the brother-in-laws, but it was great fun!  Well worth the busy week.  More posts to come (shortly I hope, but baseball season has started - we had three game this week and it eats up about 3 1/2 hours each game - so worth it though).

I Will Catch Up (One Day)

I feel so far behind.  I have been getting ready for the baptism of my youngest and for family to come visit out of state.  I have so much to post about that even plus a whole lot more - St. Patrick's Day, Spirit Week, more scout stuff, Nursery stuff, stuff tried from Pinterest.  It may not get all posted until summer, but I'll work on it, PROMISE.

Look I was Featured!

Conference Weekend I glanced at my stats.  I was surprised to see a new referring site (that had sent over 500 hits in one day).  Wasn't I surprised to see that my little site was featured in a Deseret News article: Preparing for LDS General Conference.  It was in the Bloggernacle section online.  It so made my day!  Thanks for the feature.  You can check out the article here: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865552904/Bloggernacle-Back-Bench-Preparing-for-LDS-General-Conference.html?pg=2