All Things Dixiefied: Teacher Appreciation

Spring is definitely here…the pollen is thick, the flowers are blooming, and it’s time to show our appreciation to our teachers.

As a former teacher, I know how {these days especially} teachers definitely feel under-appreciated. I always like this week, because it’s a way families can pay a little attention to those wonderful people who are with our kids for so many hours each day/week.

This week is Teacher Appreciation Week at Hunter’s preschool. Monday was “Treat Day”. We could either have the children make cards or bring in a baked good for the teachers.

I love to bake, but with me watching my calories, I knew that one, most of the treats would end up at home and two, I would be the only one to eat them.

So, of course I started scouring Pinterest to find the perfect “low calorie” {if that even exits} sweet treat for Hunter’s teachers…and me.

I love Lemon Bars and came across this great looking recipe. It’s the Two Ingredient Lemon Bars.

Yes, you read that correctly…two ingredients!

All you need:

A box of Angel Food Cake Mix

1 can of Lemon Pie Filling

Once you have your two ingredients…mix the two until blended.

Pour into a greased 13X9 pan and bake at 350 degrees.

The recipe says to bake for 20 minutes.

Honestly, I found that 20 minutes was a little too long for me. The bars were great but a little too “cakey” for me.

Next time I’ll bake them for 15 minutes and go from there. I like my lemon bars a little gooey.

I do think they turned out great for a teacher’s gift though.

Best part of all…from my little calorie counter, these bars are about 50 calories per bar/square…not bad!

Today was “Flower day”. We were supposed to bring a flower to the teachers.

Well, of course I have to think outside of the box.

I found this adorable fabric flower headband on a blog I follow…found HERE.

I thought, perfect, and got to work…

I first found two fabrics I wanted to use. I then cut four 3” circles out of one fabric, and four 2” circles out of the other fabric.

I then followed the tutorial. I folded each circle in half and then in half again…it made a triangle. I put a tiny dab of hot glue at the bottom in the center of the triangle to hold it together.

Once the triangles were made, I cut out two 3” circles in some felt I had on hand. I then placed the the big “triangles around the felt and hot glued down. I placed the smaller triangles on top and glued them down.

Once all the pieces were placed and glued, I sewed a button in the center and “poofed'” it a little.

To attach it to the headband, I cut a second piece of 3” felt. I glued it on the inside of the headband and hot-glued the flower piece onto the second piece of felt.