Orange You Glad It’s Summer?!?!

While perusing Pinterest a while back, I stumbled upon this fun idea

from the girls at

for end-of-year teacher gifts.

Cute, simple, and fun, right?

So I printed the tags right away, and then got thinking how much fun it would be to give this to my kids’ teachers with some mandarin oranges or cuties, instead of candy.  So I went to the store and wouldn’t you know it, mandarin oranges are out of season, and they were all out.  So.  Not being one to just take the easy road and get the candies shown in the picture, I wandered around the store collecting orange things to put in a box or basket instead.

I already had the boxes, but they were the wrong color, so I also bought some orange spray paint {aka the best stuff ever invented…not necessarily just orange, but spray paint in general} and made them orange to go with the theme.  I also had on hand some orange tissue paper, and then added Orange Crush, Orange Sticks, some orange pencils, and some actual oranges.  We stuck in the cute printable, and voila!

A  super cute, slightly-less-simple, fun idea for end-of-year teacher gifts.

Happy Summer!