Intern Gift

Yesterday was my intern's last day (boo!).  I have been so lucky this year in getting a great intern.  I wanted to get her something for her last day.  I thought back to what I got when I was interning and knew I wanted to do something just like what I got.

In my weekly newsletter, I wrote a paragraph asking for my classroom parents for donations.  I told them I was making a basket of items for my intern.  They could bring in anything that a teacher would use and I would place it in the basket.  I also bought items for the basket that I thought she would be able to use.  I found a white basket at Michael's one day when I was there that I thought would work.  I decided to jazz it up by adding zebra print ribbon to it.  Then I found some more black and white items that I thought would really work and look well in the basket.   I also bought other more teacher items.  I printed off the subway teacher writing from a blog (eighteen25) and put it in a frame.  I thought that would be nice for her.  My students brought lots of items too for the basket.  One of the girls brought the cork board with ribbon on it.  I love how they added the interns name to it.  That is such a great idea.  I love how the basket turned out.  I think it is adorable.  My interned loved it too.

I actually had so much stuff for the basket I ran out of room so I bought two more baskets I thought would work well for a library.  I put them in one another and added more of the items.  I also put matching ribbon through the basket to make it look prettier.  I ran out of the ribbon so I was only able to do one book basket. 

 

Here are how both baskets looked together.  My intern got a lot of items for her classroom.

I hope she likes it as much as I do.