Saturday, April 11, 2009

Special Thank You Card

I've been working for a couple of months on a project that is consuming my every thought! The kids at our church are inviting their favorite teacher to a Teacher Appreciation Night. I seriously go to sleep thinking about it and wake up thinking about it. It is still two more weeks away!

Anyway, things are *finally* starting to come together. It has been kind of a struggle, but last Wednesday, we had the night set aside to video each of the kids that chose to participate. They gave a short explanation of why they chose the teacher they did. They did such a good job! After that night, I finally felt like things were going to work out. The kids are excited about everything, so I really hope we have some teachers come. That is my biggest concern at this point. We have a few RSVP's, but not a ton. I made reminders to send out tomorrow, along with an agenda for the evening, so that may help. Teachers are just busy too, so that makes it hard.

This card is for the man that did the videoing for us. He was visiting our ward a couple of weeks ago and volunteered to do it. We had originally planned to do a video, and then it got cancelled (NOT happy = ME!). I said we really needed to find a way to make it work and I'm not sure how it came up, but this man ended up volunteering. He was so patient with the kids. The Primary President asked me to make a card for all them to sign at church tomorrow, so I came up with this. It is a full sheet of paper folded in half so there would be room for everyone.

Thanks to everyone who has helped with this project!

6 comments:

Allie said...

That is such a cute card. What a cool thing for you to do for the teachers--I think you're awesome!

Jodi Reeve said...

I am glad you are feeling better about the whole activity. I hope teachers go too! Let me know if I can help you in any way.

Kari Lyn said...

Allie - - I don't want to give the impression that I came up with the idea for this activity. I actually fought it for quite some time. :) I had many concerns about the feelings of the kids getting hurt if their teachers don't come.....still do. But, I'm trying to be "on board" now. This is completely out of my comfort zone though.

cherrystones said...

I love the idea and the card, as always, looks great, Kari!

Karen said...

This sounds like a great idea - hope you can relax very soon! Very cute card!

Tanya said...

this really is cute! Good luck with your event! wow!