Graduation Gift Basket For A New Teacher With Personalized School Supplies #ChronicleBooks

When my dear friends at MyChronicleBooks contacted me recently to see if I would like to review some of their beautiful, personalized school supplies I knew I had the perfect recipients for them!

Remember how I told you about our next door neighbors that just graduated 

to become elementary school teachers last weekend? 

What could be more fun for a brand new teacher-to-be than a gift basket 

FULL of school supplies and teacher goodies?! I will always have a soft spot in my heart for new school supplies, stationery, and office products and when you personalize them, they're even cuter. How is that possible? 

MyChronicleBooks has all kinds of fabulous books and goodies on their website and now they're offering a brand new way to celebrate all of the milestones in a child's life with MyChronicleBooks. 

It is the first and only personalized line of products from a book publisher featuring award-winning and bestselling children's book authors and illustrators. They are perfect gifts for any occasion like birthdays, baby showers, back to school, holidays, end of the year teacher thank you gifts, or even NEW teacher (graduation) gifts! They have an a-dorable Eric Carle line of products featuring 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar™ -- my personal favorite! 

(see the personalized ThankYou notes in the photos below) 

MyChronicleBooks has personalized lunch boxes, stickers, notebooks, placemats, growth charts, 

note cards, wall art, and more. Their prices range from $3.99 to $99.99 and ship in just 2 weeks. I was able to select my products and preview them to see what they would look like with the names on them. You can even change skin and hair color on some of the products!

For the new teacher-to-be gift baskets, we personalized lunch boxes for each of the girls and included co-ordinating notebooks, stickers and just for fun some Eric Carle thank you notes. 

I also picked up some bulletin board borders, teacher supplies, and other new teacher goodies from the office supply store. I found the super cute chevron baskets for 60% off at Michaels craft store. 

MyChronicleBooks also makes personalized story books that you can dedicate to your favorite kid -- 

I'll be sharing our personalized "What Big Sisters Do Best" book with you in my next post! 

But wait, there is something for you, my lovely readers, too! 

As a special thank you, MyChronicleBooks would like to offer Pink and Green Mama readers

a special discount off any order with this special promotion code: MyCB-d5285JW 

Have fun!

Warmly,

Pink and Green Mama, MaryLea

Disclosure: Products for review were provided by Chronicle Books. 

The opinions expressed herein are my own and are not indicative of the opinions of Chronicle Books. 

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Easy Heartfelt DIY Fingerprint Cards for Dads and Grads!

It's that time of year again, time for Graduation Celebrations and Father's Day!

We had the honor and privilege of celebrating two very talented college graduates this weekend. 

Our next door neighbors have raised three smart and beautiful young women that I got to teach 

(a million years ago) when they were still in elementary school. Two of them graduated

from College and Graduate school this weekend and are going to be teachers. I couldn't be prouder! 

We put together gift baskets for each of the graduates (I'll share them in my next post) 

and these easy DIY "heartfelt" cards! The third is still in college and our favorite babysitter. 

The cards were so quick and easy to make. 

They would be great for any graduation, teacher appreciation, or dad for father's day. 

We started by picking out stamping ink in the school colors, 

in this case George Mason University - Green and Gold, and

James Madison University - Purple and Gold. 

If you didn't have ink pads in the house, you could try coloring and stamping 

fingerprints with washable markers (think Crayola) or Do-A-Dots! 

For a Father's day card, I could see dad's favorite team colors, 

alma mater, or children's birthstone colors -- you get the idea! 

To make the cards, we traced a pale yellow heart on a piece of white card stock (folded into a card)

then, the girls filled in the heart with fingerprints in green and gold ink for our GMU grad

and purple and gold ink for our JMU grad! 

After filling the inside with heartfelt messages of congratulations

and drawings from the girls we were good to go! 

Quick, easy, original, and from the heart. 

Here's to all the new grads (and dads) out there! 

Warmly,

Pink and Green Mama

MaryLea

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Favorite Kid-Friendly Looms and Weaving Projects Round-Up

Today I'm sharing some of my favorite Weaving projects from the blog.

Weaving a great way to build hand eye coordination and fine motor skills.

You can use a store bought or homemade loom. 

You can weave with paper, ribbons, grasses, leaves, yarn, string, fabric scraps, etc.

Making your own Cereal Box Loom 

Paper Weaving: Mixing Two Paintings Together

Recycled Milk Carton Weaving

Recycled Cup Weaving

Warmly,

Pink and Green Mama, MaryLea

Below are some of our favorite looms:

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Teacher Appreciation Week Gift: Easy and Cute Fairy Garden in a $1 Salad Bowl

This week is teacher appreciation week.

One little week to let our children's teacher's know how much they mean to us and our children.

Isn't EVERY week teacher appreciation week?

It's kind of like "Mother's Day," in my book, every day is mother's day!

But it is nice to get a little reminder. 

I shared this photo on instagram on Monday. 

We like to make these cute little gardens every year. 

The girls and I loved making these salad bowl fairy gardens for this year's teachers.

They gave them to their teachers this morning so I can share them on the blog now! 

Project How to: 

* Instructions to make the bird houses can be found in this post.

* Step-by-step instructions for the Fairy Dish Gardens can be found here. 

* I bought the Salad Bowls at Walmart for $1 each! 

They always stock them this time of year in the picnic outdoor 

plastic drink pitcher and trays seasonal display area (I'm sure that's the official name!)

More Eye Candy

And... please take a quick minute to hop over and 

check out the cute fairy gardens my bloggy friend Melissa at Green Owl Art blog 

made with her kids this week - my favorite is the tether ball pole!

Warmly,

Pink and Green Mama, MaryLea

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