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I chose to use my Cricut to make personalized cups for all of our front office workers and all of our admin. My school is a middle/high school {6-12}, so I had a total of NINE people to make end of year gifts for. I did not want to be a cheap-o, but I also had to be economical. See the pic below to see how they turned out!

Steps:

• I simply added the Cricut adhesive to the tumblers and glasses
• Next, I dropped some Twix and M&M's inside the cups
• Finally, I attached these adorable Gift Tags around the neck of the cups with some twine!

Supplies:

• Glass Mugs and/or Plastic Tumblers {personal preference}
  • I got my Tumblers at Wal-Mart and the glasses were a wedding gift!
• Twine
  • You can get these from any craft store (mine came from Hobby Lobby)
• Cardstock
• Printable Gift Tags
• Cricut Explore Air 2 + Black Outdoor Adhesive Vinyl 
  • Click the images below to see the exact products that I use!

These Valentine's Day Pencil Toppers are the perfect gift to give to your students this Valentine's Day! A local Plywood Store that my grandfather retired from donated a large box of pencils to me to use in my classroom, and I wanted to be sure to make the most of their donation. I ultimately decided that I wanted to use these pencils as a Valentine's Day treat for my students, but I definitely wanted to jazz them up a little! 

I decided to get creative and design some pencil toppers in Google Slides. The picture below is an example of one of the slides I created. 

INSTRUCTIONS:
Here is what I did....

• After designing several different slides with different wording and colors, I printed them out on card stock.
• Afterwards, I cut them out (Okay, I may have had a student or two help me do all of this cutting... I have almost 100 students amongst my 6 classes).
• Then I used a hole puncher to make the openings for the pencils. I inserted one hole at the top center of the heart, and then another and the bottom center of the heart. I then simply slid the pencil through the openings... I think they turned out great! 

See the final result below!

Thanks for reading! Please feel free to share the above images and link back to this article on social media! I would LOVE to see how you use these in your classroom. Please comment and share your thoughts/ideas below.

Happy Early Valentine's Day!
- Hayley Wood

I use Google Drive and all of the amazing features that it contains on a DAILY basis. In order to increase my productivity and become more efficient during my planning period time, I wanted to find quicker, better ways to navigate and work in Google Suite. Below are my favorite shortcut keys to use, and I also teach them to my students. 

I personally print these out, laminate them, and place them at every computer station within my classroom for my students. I hope you can find a great use for them! Feel free to download and print for personal use. 

Here are my favorite Google Docs shortcut keys...