Teacher Gifts

So I guess it might be a little late to post this idea since school got out yesterday.  I used these as teacher gifts, but I think you could use them as a gift for anyone.
My friend Kelly showed me one on a smaller scale that she made to put show tickets in as a gift, cute!  I needed an idea for Teacher Appreciation Week last year.  I sent home paper with the kids in their homework folder.  It said "My favorite thing about Kindergarten is...." Then they wrote it down and drew a picture.  I put them all in this book.
For the cover of this book I used card stock.  I used Modge Podge to attach it, then I covered the entire the entire book with Modge Podge. Then I attached the bow with spray glue.

 This is what the book looked like in the beginning. I spent about 50 cents on it at DI.

This year the PTA sent home notes with the kids, so I made a book for my daughters teacher to keep them all in.

On the cover of this one I used fabric.  First I used spray glue and stuck the fabric to the cover of the book.  I wrapped it around about an inch on the inside.  Then I covered the inside with card stock.  I covered the fabric on the outside with Modge Podge.  Then I used a glue gun to attach the ribbon where the three fabrics met up.

I took some spray glue and sprayed in between about 8 pages and stuck them all together.  Then I took a piece of card stock and spray glued one to each side of the section of pages I glued together.  I did this throughout the book.

Now the teacher will be able to attach the notes from the kids inside the book.  I thought these would be great gifts for other things too.  Father's day is coming up, you could make a book for dad or grandpa with notes and pictures from the kids.