This is what the girls and I pulled together this afternoon for teacher gifts, using apple butter we canned in the fall. The apples were from a swap I did, in return from pears from our pear trees.
Everything else we used today we had on hand. The girls took ownership of the whole process. I love when it works out that way!
Watching them make cards was a lesson in what kids can do. I made dots for my three-year-old to write her name, thinking she would just squiggle all over the page. And she really wrote her name! Her teachers are going to be so happy. I know it will mean a lot to them. Which is important to me. I want them to feel appreciated and loved, for the big important job they do of loving (and teaching or course) my children in all the days they spend with them. 
My oldest daughter is past the kindergarten, love my teacher age. She enjoys her teachers, but a simple tag was all she wanted on her gifts. And she’ll probably put the jars in her school bag and ditch the cute basket in them morning. But it does make for a nice photo – right? And that makes this mom happy.
