For this year's Teacher Appreciation gifts we were inspired by Amy Atlas' Apple of My Eye dessert table found in her latest book: Sweet Designs. The boys and I collected a bunch of apple flavored goodies and even made our own apple shortbread cookies and then packaged them in baskets for their teachers. Of course we had to add our traditional gift of a movie gift card too. Teachers work really hard and do amazing things for our kids. I hope they know the little gifts we bring them are just a small token of our gratitude.
Here are the goodies we gathered...
To make the apple shortbread cookies we used red, green & brown royal icing to make little apple images on the store-bought shortbread cookies. We used squeeze bottles for the icing so the boys could help create the apples.
Here is the inspiration from Amy Atlas, who is truly an endless source of inspiration...
And finally, the baskets...the boys wrote out 'You are the Apple of my Eye' on hang tags tied to the baskets. We also added a little red ric-rac to the baskets with fabric glue to match our color scheme.
-K
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