School Counselor Blog

Posting about the Hawaiian-Themed End of Year Teacher Gift with Hawaiian shirt koozies and festive drinks made me realize I never posted about the teacher gift we did last year! 😱  One of my favorite End of Year teacher gifts we have ever done was inflatable summer drink floats ! These were super fun and silly. Staff loved them! Below I will share everything you need to re-create this "Stay Afloat, It's Almost Summer!" End of Year Teacher Gift. This would also make a fun gift for a School Counseling Department, Student Services Department, Supervisor, Intern, and more... To make the "Stay Afloat, It's Almost Summer!" Gift, we purchased: Summer Inflatable Drink Floats Similar smaller quantity pack from Walmart Astrobrights Cardstock Paper Ribbon A Variety of Festive Summer Sparkling Waters Waterloo Italian Ice  (I can't wait to try this one!) Bubly Strawberry Sunset Bubly Coconut Pineapple Bubly Orange Cream Pop/Soda Diet Coke Coke Zero Regular Coke Sna...

All of the gift ideas are items school counselors can use at home or in their school counseling office. Some of these items are things I already own and others are on my holiday list this year!  🎁 🥤  Corkcicle Tumbler - I love Corkcicle Tumblers! They keep your drinks cold for 9+ hours and hot for 3+ hours! I have multiple 16oz tumblers for iced coffee and I just got a 24oz one for keeping hydrated at work. I purchased the holiday tumbler (shown above) for myself on Black Friday. It was on sale then, but now it has an even deeper discount. There is also a coupon code right now -DASHAWAY20 for 20% off site wide. Corkcicle also has an educator discount year round! (You can't use the discount in combination with other discounts though). If you prefer to purchase through Amazon, some Corksicicle items are available on their site.  🫖  Electric Kettle  - This mini Smeg USA electric kettle is on my holiday list. I am looking forward to making tea during the winte...

I wanted to give a small gift to my daughter's pre-school teachers for Thanksgiving. This can be tough time of the year for educators so I wanted to give a small thank you gift to let them know we appreciate them. I decided to share this idea in case you also wanted to give a last-minute Thanksgiving gift to a teacher, colleague, or someone else. I decided to give her teachers pumpkin candles that I purchased from Trader Joe's. I created a  "Thankful for You" printable   using Canva , a free online design tool, to make the gift tags. I was planning to print the "Thankful for You" printable on card stock, but I was out of card stock. Instead I printed it on regular paper and instructed my daughter color on it with orange, yellow, and red crayons. I cut the printable with a paper cutter and then affixed it with glue dots to glitter card stock that I had on hand. I wrote a note on the back that says "Thank you for helping me learn and grow! ...