Teacher Appreciation - Lunch

 

Last year for teacher appreciation we had 3 days of "food carry in's" for the teachers. We asked the parents at the school to bring in breakfast one day, lunch one day, and sweets one day. Each day we decorated and geared the food choices to a different book or book series. For lunch day we chose the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". We used the book as inspiration for the food and decorations.  We created food tent cards to let the teachers know what each food item was and who made it.  We created the caterpillars on the cards with a circle punch and green and red card stock.  We used the food items in the book to plan the menu.  We had a sandwich tray, salads, cupcakes, cake, suckers, cheese and crackers, chicken salad with apples, and fruit and veggie trays.  I hope you have enjoyed my teacher appreciation series of posts.  If you haven't read the breakfast and sweet table days please take a minute to check out which books we used for those days. 

 

 

 

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Teacher Appreciation - Sweets

 

Last year for teacher appreciation we had 3 days of "food carry in's" for the teachers. We asked the parents at the school to bring in breakfast one day, lunch one day, and sweets one day. Each day we decorated and geared the food choices to a different book or book series. For sweets day we picked the most obvious book about sweets - Hansel and Gretel.  We used the book covers propped up on easels, buntings, and candy to decorate the tables.  We asked parents to bring in the sweets of their choice.  We decorated a gingerbread house for the centerpiece of the table. We also crumbled bread crumbs on the tables as a final touch.   The next post in this series will be teacher appreciation day - lunch.

 

Teacher Appreciation Breakfast

Last year for teacher appreciation we had 3 days of "food carry in's" for the teachers. We asked the parents at the school to bring in breakfast one day, lunch one day, and sweets one day. Each day we decorated and geared the food choices to a different book or book series. For breakfast, we used the "If You Give the Moose a Muffin" series of books to plan out the food.  We used the books and characters that some of parents had for decorations as well as printing some of the other covers of the books and placed them on easels.  We had muffins for give a moose a muffin.  We had cookies for give a mouse a cookie,  We had cinnamon roll cupcakes for give a cat a cupcake.  We also had a pancake station for give a pig a pancake.  We had pre packaged donuts for give a dog a donut.  We also had individual cereals, milk, juice, bananas, and a parfait bar complete with fruit salsa.  We also had some cups that we made with little pigs on them that said hogs and kisses.  They were filled with hershey kisses that the teachers could grab.  We found this idea on pinterest.  I hope you enjoy these ideas.   I will posting the other two days of teacher appreciation ideas in separate posts.