Right about this time of year, teachers are feeling pretty stressed out.
It's already February,
but . . .
Its. Only. February!
There's still a lot of work to be done.
It was at this time of the school year, when I'd start to ask myself, "How am I going to teach them everything I need to before the end of the year?"
How do you get through those "forehead against the blackboard kind of days?"
Well, CHOCOLATE, of course!
So I baked a batch of my very own secret recipe chocolate chip cookies . . .
and followed a packaging idea from Martha Stewart. I got out my wax paper . . .
. . . and some Valentine paper cocktail napkins.
Cut out tons of hearts from the hapkins.
Then make a "sandwich" in this order: paper towels, wax paper, hearts, wax paper, and paper towels. Then set a dry iron to medium, and iron the "sandwich". Voila! The hearts get sealed inside.
(Just like making stained glass with crayon shavings as a kid in grade school.)
Then package up the cookies in neat little stacks. I put about 5 or 6 cookies in each package. Enough to put that chocolate craving to rest, but not enough to totally ruin your New Year's Resolution!
Then I tied them up with some ribbon and homemade tags. I used the antique "HARE" dictionary page from the Graphics Fairy again. I sure have gotten a lot of use out of that graphic - love it! Thank you, Karen!
Now they're ready to deliver to a couple of good teacher friends as they tackle another Monday morning in February.
February classroom stress relievers - comin' up!
February classroom stress relievers - comin' up!
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