Teacher Wedding Shower Ideas Needed

having been a teacher- I advise you to do cookies instead of cupcakes- cupcakes are extremely messy- no not the frosting, but the cake part- you will have crumbs everywhere!! and you can still decorate them!

I have a wonderful cook book my kinders made for me. Each child dictated their recipe to my aid, she typed them up and the kids each drew a picture to go with it. I still keep it in my kitchen. It has recipes for pb&j, spaghettio's, pizza cooked at a million degrees LOL. Being 3rd graders they could probably write it themselves- it would be a great keep sake for the teacher.

If gifts are to be included, it could be a cooking theme, have the kids make her an apron with all of their hand prints on it. and any extra money can be put towards kitchen supplies

When my daughter was in second grade, her teacher got married and the class threw her a surprise shower. One of the moms cordinated with a local paint your own pottery studio and the art teacher for the kids to decorate a vase and platter during their art hour with butterfly finger prints. The item was then fired at the pottery studio. A collection was taken up for the gift - I don't recall the amount but it wasn't much, maybe $5 per child. The items were beautiful and the teacher loved them!! Parents helped with the actual shower with food items, paper products, etc.

Have fun!
P.

I have done both wedding and baby showers for teachers. A fun activity to do is make a book from the kids. Give them a sheet of paper with something like..... Some advice I would give you about married life is.....
Find a creative mom to put the book together and during the shower have her read from it. It works best if you have the kids fill out the page when the teacher is out of the room and explain it is a surprise for the shower. The kids love to hear what each other has written.
Keep it simple with the food a pretty cake and ice cream.I have found Moms who love to do cakes too. It is fun to get the teacher out of the room and let the kids decorate too. Make a hugh card and have them sign it. Pick a few ideas from her registry and have the kids figure out what they can afford or a gift card is great too.

Have fun! Hope this helps!

When my sister was pregnant, her classroom made her a banner. All the kids drew pictures of the baby-to-be on a roll of butcher paper. My sister hung the picture up above the baby's changing table. She loved it.

ideas for kids: have them make a wedding dress out of TP on her, kids write wedding wishes for a scrapbook, find out ahead of time if the teacher needs any last minute thing done... like lile candies tied up in doilies.. pin the veil on the bride... cup cakes that have lil bow ties and flowers on them.... cupcakes and each kid gets a tube of frosting to decorate their mini wedding cake...

Have the children play appropriate "shower" games. They can do the word scramble type games or the "toilet paper bride" game (groups of four are to design a dress for the bride with one roll of toilet paper).

F.,
I don't know if this will be helpful to you or not but when my son was in 3rd grade I had a baby and they gave me a baby shower in the classroom. They had assigned each one of the children a letter and ran off a coloring page onto some type of iron-on material. Each child colored his page (they stressed heavily to the children to do their best work, but would not tell them why they were making these, so as not to ruin the suprise) The classroom aide then transferred the pages onto material and made the most adorable ABC quilt for the new baby.

Maybe you could incorporate this idea but gear it more towards a teacher type theme? I'm sure it would be a very sentimental thing. Maybe a photo of each student made into quilting squares?

If you are in the classroom often as a helper, maybe you could get someone else at the school to conspire with you to discreetly get the kids help. You may be able to make this a shower activity for the kids if its not going to be a suprise for the teacher, and the quilt could be given at a later date.

If your not the crafty type you could always have a pantry shower and each student could bring in something to help stock the bride to be's food cupboard.

As for shower food, I would keep it to cake or cupcakes and punch. Shower activities could be as simple as a wedding themed word search, or even a Mad Libs page. Or you could have each child make a wedding card for the teacher with well wishes in his or her own words and then seal them up to be opened by the teacher after she is married. Good luck it sounds like a very thoughtful yet fun thing for you to do! Good luck.

Hi F.,
I'm a Third Grade Teacher...I think parents would love to pitch in $10-$15 each and you can purchase a gift certificate to Linens N'Things any store that would supply kitchen, bath, bedroom items. You would have to type a letter have it approved by the school principal and send it out with the chhildren. When I got married five years ago parents all pitched in and gave me a gift certificate for a massage, pedicure and manicure which I used the day before my wedding...it was awesome! Also, you can get manilla tagg paper...on the front put a class photo...that you would take yourself (digital camera)develop it as a 5x7...inside have all the students write a special message to their teacher..it's a great gift that she can also use in her portfolio.
Hope this helps.
P.

I am a teacher and when I got married 2 years ago, one of the parents held a small shower for me with my 5th grade class. At the shower, the students presented me with a scrapbook that they made (she came into the classroom a few weeks prior and "borrowed" my class for 30'ish minutes, I just had to go find something to do....make copies, return phone calls, etc.). It is the cutest book. There is a picture of each child and wedding advice on "How to be a good wife." I read each page out loud to the class during the shower. We were laughing and having a good time. They gave me a beautiful serving bowl as a gift (she collected money secretly from each child). Then we had a snack, I believe cookies and punch. That was all that we needed. Lots of games and gifts are not necessary. The wedding advice was priceless! I was amazed at what the children came up with...things like "don't get angry if he leaves his socks all over the house" or "be sure to cook him a good dinner that he likes". My husband and I still look back to the wedding advice book and chuckle.

F.,

Have you asked the children what they might like to do? Why not put together a sheet of paper and ask them to each list five shower ideas they think their teacher would like.

Or you could ask the entire class to brainstorm ten ideas. Then vote secretly for the top three or four. (The secret voting is so no-one can say an idea is stupid or dumb.)

I would put together a list of the ideas mentioned here to give them a starting point and go from there. Then have them help to make a list of the items that need to be made and purchased and make a deadline for items that need to be completed and returned to you.

You might be able to enlist the help of your superintendent or principal to make this a surprise for your son's teacher.

Good luck with the shower!

Maybe each child could draw a picture and then write a sentence about the teacher or the class to put it all into a scrap book.

Hi there

I am a teacher also, and when I was pregant I bought an inespensive journal and the kids all wrote baby advice for me. They ranged from watching out for flying rattles to warnings of stinky diapers. I still love to read it!

The kids could do something similar with wedding or marage advice ; things to be careful of during the wedding, things they need to do to keep esch other happy.

The other teacher also had the kids make me a "brown Bear, Brown bear" type pattern book for the baby. Perhaps you could make one where the kids fill in the blanks in wedding vows (I promise talways share the remote, never to tell you you can't have candy before dinner.... I am sure they'll come up with some great ones!) and put each child's togehter in a book or binder.

Keep it simple adn have fun with it. It is very thoughtful of you to do this! Good luck!!

Hi F.,
I hope you don't think that you have to do all of this yourself. Other parents, esp. working parents that can't help in the classroom, love to be able to provide food items and such. As for ideas, again, a small group of 3-4 other parents helping out should provide all the ideas you need.