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 an unopened 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 
  • If you don't have a die-cut machine, I have the mugs listed in my ETSY store.
  • I am also happy to create and ship just the adhesive names to you as well to cut down on your shipping cost! 

These Valentine's Day Pencil Toppers are the perfect gift to give to your students this Valentine's Day! A local Plywood Store 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...