For Some Awesome Teachers...

This past year, my middle daughter, Curious K. was in the Eager Elephant class at Awesome Kids Preschool.  For teacher appreciation day, we created these cookies to thank her teachers and the school director!

For Mrs. Traynor, the school's Director.

Curious K. loved being an Eager Elephant!

Hearts and "Thank You" Signs

Flowers

An Awesome Kids Preschool logo cookie with a teacher cookie and a Curious K. cookie.

Curious K with her "Awesome" teachers - Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Lester

These cookies were totally inspired by Tara atThe Shaky Bakerand some wonderful cookies she made for her daughter's school auction!

Did you see the cookies that I made for my oldest daughter, Reader R's teacher appreciation day?

Have a great day!
Cheers!
Sarah

An Apple for the Teacher???

No, way!  You're talking to the Cookie Lady after all!

At our school, we do it up BIG for Teacher Appreciation Week (in May. Yes, I am a little behind.)  This year, we sent our teachers on an imaginary cruise, with activities planned for each day.  We had "Bon Voyage" posters, a special lunch with the captain (the principal), a spa day, a day on shore, and a Mexican fiesta.  It was a big hit.

For teacher appreciation week, I made my favorite cookie EVER!!!

This is the Reader R. cookie!  

(It was totally inspired by Tara at the Shaky Baker and some wonderful cookies she made for her daughter's school auction!)

Reader R. LOVED her 1st Grade teacher Mrs. Cox.  I had heard other parents say that Mrs. Cox has an amazing gift at making your child feel like the most important student in the school... but that she does that for every current and past student at the same time.  Well, it is true!  ;^)

So, when Reader R. heard that we were sending Mrs. Cox on a cruise, the first thing she wanted to know was if she could go with her!  So that is what we cookie-d...a mini Reader R. and everything else you need for a cruise, a sun hat, sun glasses, a pair of flip-flops, etc. and put them in a big pink sun hat. 

We also made cookie packages for the principal and the specials teachers with just hearts and shades and a note about how they are "So cool they have to wear shades!"

These were some of my first glaze cookies!  Thanks to Shari Felich for the recipe, and thanks to some encouragement from Cristin at Cristin's Cookies and this WONDERFUL tutorial on glaze with Cristin and Arty MaGoo, I gave it a whirl!  I am so glad that I did!  Now I don't have to be afraid of dark colors any more!  (Which is especially important since our school colors are maroon, black, and grey! Go Chargers!)

For my preschooler, Curious K, we personalized her teacher appreciation cookies too, but we'll include those in another post...

Cheers!
Sarah

On the Eleventh Day of Cookie Christmas...

Sweet Sarah gave to me, Eleven Cheerful Cardinals...

These were for the annual William Jewell ~ Alpha Gamma Delta ornament exchange.  I thought they we appropriate because the Jewell mascot is a cardinal, and I couldn't muster up the squirrel with a wreath that I really wanted to do.  I LOVE red and white together... so I included some snowflakes too.

This fun cookie was the hostess gift for my dear friend, Mary Catherine.  She sent me a postcard like this from the U.K. with a container of my favorite British "Biscuits" after I found out I was pregnant with my third child... What a blessing that I will never forget.  I still have the postcard, and used it to create yummy "Thank you!"

I also was really happy with these red and white ornaments, too.  They were also inspired by my Isaiah Bible Study, and were a gift to the leaders of that study.



“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD:
though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool."
Isaiah 1:18

Merry Cookie Christmas!
Sarah

An Apple for the Teacher -Happy End of the 1st Quarter

It was a perfect fall day to bake some APPLES!  We decided to make these Red Delicious and Granny Smith's as teacher thank you treats to celebrate the end of the 1st Quarter.

Reader R and
her Red Delicious Apples
for Mrs. Cox at HCA!

Curious K and
her curious orange and
lime green apples ;^)

My big girls each got a turn
to decorate their own apple cookies too!

Not only did we make these fun apples, but we also baked a delicious apple crisp with Elliot, the class elephant from Curious K's preschool classroom, along assistance from our own Horton.  So much fun!

(BTW- Those elephants really know their way around the kitchen.  I might have to bring them on as helpers during the Christmas rush! ;^)  Of course, they ate more than their share of the dessert too, so maybe that isn't such a great deal after all.)