Morning, it's Saturday and the six weeks school holidays stretch out in front of us and before we know it we'll be gathering the uniform and heading back, so I thought it would be a good time to show what gifts we managed to make in the last week, two sets made in an evening with the help of said 11 year old and hubby!
First up the breakfast club gifts, inspired by Michelle's post which is
here
The pencil idea was simply genius and really made it look the part, then I wrapped some boxes of maltesers with a single sheet of 12 x 12 - said 11 year old said I needed to cross through the word handmade on these papers because I hadn't made the chocolates LOL! It was one of those serendipity moments when I needed some papers to go with the plant pots and found three sheets all exactly the same stating the word chocolate on them!
All wrapped up in cellophane with twiddly ribbon
And all three finished, so this was Monday nights activity
Then Thursday night we created this star book
Completed
And another shot, apparently it brought a tear to the eyes of more than one member of staff when opened on Friday
And the other book
Opening up
Opened out
Then male teacher's gifts, rather than a star book I used my first attempt at Steampunk Andy Skinner styley
The back
Close ups
And the other side
And then a slightly out of focus shot - sorry it was exceptionally late!
And the clipboard, again, not the best of photos but it was midnight!
Wrapped up the star books, with card and tolberone! Photographed on the only clear surface in my room on Thursday night (and Saturday morning but don't get me started). The printer!
And there we have it, I got hugs from Mrs Williams and Mrs Powell who we made the star books for and big thanks from Mr Bratt. It was an emotional day for said 11 year old and he held it together really well, but the hug with Mr Bratt was the point that tipped him over the edge and we sat in the car on the way home and he tried really hard not to cry, but then I told him to just have a good cry because sometimes thats what you need!
