Dry Erase Marker Bouquet - Teacher Gift

I had such good intentions of getting this post up last night, but my plans changed! I was washing the dishes {we don’t have a dishwasher} and was rinsing the silverware and putting it in the dish drainer, and I had a couple of sharp knives in my hand headed for the dish drainer and one made it in and one missed. It fell, and hit my foot. I ended up having to go and get two stitches right by my little toe. It could have been much worse though. I’m just glad the Instacare was still open and we didn’t have to go to the ER. BTW, I hate shots! Have you ever had a shot in your foot? It HURTS, bad! I had to get two in my foot to numb it and I had to get a tetanus shot in my arm. 🙁
Anyway, you didn’t come here to hear me tell you about my foot. 😉 I told you earlier in the week that I would share with you the teacher appreciation gift that I did for our teachers this year. I just put these together yesterday afternoon. They are pretty much the same thing that I did last year, but I used dry erase markers this time. I want to try to give the teachers something that they will use, and not just put it with the rest of the teacher themed gifts that they all get.
This year, I thought I’d show in a little more detail how I put these together, in case there were questions.

How cute is this dry erase marker bouquet? Simple gift that's dressed up and sure to make any teacher smile! Get the tutorial @thehappyscraps.

Start off with a can, or container of some sort, some floral foam, and your markers or pencils.

Take your markers and push them down into the floral foam.

Then set the foam into your container. Last time, I used hot glue to keep it in, but this time I didn’t glue it at all, I thought it would be more practical, so that if the teachers want to, they could use the container for something else.

I used my Cricut to cut out some 2″ flowers from the George & Basic Shapes cartridge. If you are doing pencils, you’ll want smaller flowers.

Use a hole punch to make the hole big enough to go onto the top of the markers. I had to do three to four partial punches around the existing hole. (EDIT: Now I would just change the flower with Cricut Craft Room, before I ever cut them out.)

Then slide your flowers on the markers.

Add your Easter grass. Get enough in there that it holds the floral foam pretty well.

I then decided that I wanted to add some vinyl to the front, so I used the Makin the Grade cartridge for my Cricut and cut the cute #1 Teacher out and put it on.