DIY Flower Pot (Great Gift Idea for Teachers!)

With the end of the school year quickly approaching, you may be looking for a thoughtful gift idea for your child’s teacher. This one is a great one - it is quick, easy, inexpensive, and easily personalized. Older kids can even do it themselves!

You will need:

• Approximately 20-30 Pencils
• Small Jar or Can
• Hot Glue
• Ribbons (optional)

Please Note: I planted my flower after gluing on the pencils, which did not work very well. I would strongly suggest planting your flower in the jar first!

First, we hot glued each pencil bottom to the jar, being sure to keep the erasers flat on the work surface.

Then, we weaved the red ribbon in and out of each pencil.

After that, we hot glued the top of each pencil to the jar.

Finally, we planted our flower. We put a few rocks in the bottom of the jar to help with drainage.

This would make a very cute pencil holder as well. After the flowers have wilted, they can be removed, the jar can be rinsed, and it can be used to hold pencils, markers, scissors, and so on.

This could be personalized with different things attached to the ribbon, or with what is used to wrap the jar. Pencil crayons would look very cute for a primary teacher. Crayons on a small jar would be adorable for a kindergarten teacher.

These jars can also be personalized by what is put in them. Pencils or flowers are very cute, but they could also be filled with chocolate kisses or candy.

What gifts do you usually give teachers?