Easy End of the Year Gifts for Students {FREE Gift Tags}
Can you believe the end of the school year is right around the corner? There is always so much to do as the year unwinds. Assessments, report cards, planning, packing and purging your classroom, field trips, oh and you're still supposed to teach in there too! On top of all of that, I like to give my students a little something when they leave me for the summer. Here you'll find several simple and cost effective easy end of the year gifts for students.
We are all busy, I get that! So I put together a few inexpensive and easy end of the year gifts for students. These ideas were all found in the Target Dollar Spot, so that's about $1 a kid. With the exception of the round bubble tag {sorry I wanted it to look like a bubble!!!}, the rest of these are easy prep. Just print, give a quick snip, and you're ready to go. Hopefully this post will help you cross one small thing off your to-do list!
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In no particular order, here's some inexpensive and easy end of the year gifts that you can put together in no time flat! I would recommend that you print these on card stock so that they are a bit more durable. You can get white card stock from Amazon or use whatever you have in your classroom!
First up is a set of mini erasers. Mini erasers are magical. Kids LOVE them {and teachers do too!}. So they make a perfect end of the year gift for students. You can use washi tape to adhere the tag, or tie a ribbon like I did. If you can't find the ice cream ones at Target, I included a generic gift tag in the download {which can be found at the bottom of this post} that can be used for any erasers.
Another kid favorite, sidewalk chalk!! You can guarantee that I will be in the driveway this summer drawing right along side of the kids. And probably laying on stomach while I'm at it!! Hahaha! The labels are about the same size as the chalk containers {also found at Target} so I just used some clear tape to adhere the label to the container.
Another oldie but goodie are sunglasses. You can leave them in the package and adhere the label to the plastic bag.
Or you can take them out of the plastic, punch a hole in the corner, and tie a ribbon like in the picture above. Amazon has a great deal on sunglasses if you can't find them in the dollar spot.
Check out these cutie patootie note pads. Is it okay to admit that I wanted to keep some of these for myself?!! For $1 you get a click pen and a little themed sticky note set. Not a bad deal and super appealing to kids! I've found them in four designs: donuts, popsicles, sharks, and hamburgers.
I made a generic gift tag to keep you from running to 18 different Targets to find a class set of shark post-it notes. You're welcome!!! Haha! 🙂
Here's an idea for bubble wands. This tag will work for any kind of bubbles. As summer approaches, Target usually has bubbles in the Dollar Spot, but if you're in a pinch these bubble wands from Amazon will work just the same!
This one might be one of my favorites. These are flashlights!! How cool is that?!? You can't really tell from the picture, but they have a long cord attached to them so students can wear them as a necklace. These come in four designs as well: hamburgers, pizza, donuts, and popsicles. You press the shape and the LED flashlight comes on.
I left the tag on this one generic, again to save you from running around looking for class sets! The gift tags are the width of the cardboard packaging so I just stapled the tags on, over the cardboard.
And then last but not least is this bucket set with a shovel. This is great if you have some odd and ends that you want to send home. Maybe a book, a review packet and a packet of crayons, etc. I send home my June Morning Work as a summer review. This bucket and tag are pretty generic so you can use it as needed!
Click on the picture below to download the gift tags.
Thanks so much for reading about these easy end of the year gifts for students!
Thank you sooo much for this present. It helps me a lot!
Where did you buy the mini note pads and pens? If it’s from a website i’d love to know which one?
hi Cassandra,
They are from the Dollar Spot at Target. These are from last year but I spotted them a few weeks ago, so they have them again this year! 🙂
-Melissa
Thank you so very much one less thing for me to have to do!
Where did you get the flashlights? They are super cute?
I saw them at Target in the dollar aisle
Where did you get the flashlights???
Nevermind. I am crazy! I see now!
Where did she get the flashlights? I don’t see it.
Hi Beth,
They were from Target last year. If you can’t find the flash lights I’ve seen teachers use glow sticks with these gift tags. 🙂
-Melissa