Welcome to our first Fall Challenge! Wow...Did summer ever fly by!
This year I will be homeschooling both of my boys...In years past, I just had my oldest, Morgan, who is 14, home with me. But this year I decided to try both of them. Homeschooling for the past 7 years has given me a lot of respect for teachers everywhere, whether they teach as their career,or teach as parents.
So for our first fall challenge- Let's give a huge round of applause for ALL the teachers in our lives, and ALL the teaching they have done by filling our Fall Challenge gallery (which I will create as soon as I can) with teachers and teacher appreciation!
I would like everyone to be able to participate, and since this challenge runs for 2 months, I have FIVE options of what you can create for this challenge (and yes, you can do all four)
#1- Create a layout about you or your child's ( or your furbaby's) favorite teacher. College Professor? Yes, he counts. Needed to send one of your furbabies for some training? Yes, the trainer counts too.
#2- Create a layout about you (as a parent) teaching your child something ( tying their shoe, riding a bike,etc.)OR..Did someone in your life teach you a skill you really appreciate? ( crocheting, cooking, scrapbooking?) Create a layout about that.( The teacher does not need to be in the layout-for example, if your grandmother taught you to quilt- maybe a picture of your favorite project and some journaling about how much you appreciate the skill)
#3- Make a "thank you" card for a teacher with a school theme. Put it in your stash, you never know when a teacher will do something great for you!
#4- I know many who have kids have created little gifts for back to school...but you know Teacher Appreciation Week is just a few months away...and there are TONS of adorable ideas on Pinterest still to try. So let's get ahead for the spring by making a Teacher Appreciation gift ( Think how great it will be in April/May when Teacher Appreciation Week is suddenly upon you..and you open up your closet and find a beautiful, finished gift is there waiting for you!)
#5-If you or someone close to you is a teacher and you would like to make a tribute layout for/about them or a layout about your teaching experience-I think it is a great idea and will accept them for submission as well.
I chose to create a thank you card. Even though my boys are in cyber-school,we still have a lot of teacher support. We have a special education and autism support teacher, as well as occupational therapists, and each boy has 4 cyber teachers...you get the idea, I need lots of school-themed thank yous throughout the year!
Challenge Rules/Prizes-
I am going to enlist my 8-year old son, Logan,to draw 2 names from his trusty fedora for 2 prizes for this challenge-
Prize #1- first name drawn-$5 ACOT gift card
Prize #2- second name drawn- RAK from my stash
Due October 2014- as long as it says September/October, it counts!
*layouts, cards,altered items,digital layouts, PL spreads all accepted
*Multiple entries allowed
*no combining please
*I will start a gallery as soon as I can...as long as your project is here or linked up there, it counts!
HAVE FUN!!!...I can't wait to see how teachers/teaching, has touched your lives!
Participants-
average_kim- X3
meterr70
MacSarah
EmtAimee734
newgirl
sweetsour
lesmitch
mom2ellabell
messa09-X4
CNMommy
Christi S.-X4
scrapsteph-X3
1scrappymom
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE FALL CHALLENGE. I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY GREAT SO MANY OF YOU WERE ABLE TO DO MULTIPLE PROJECTS!
OUR WINNERS ARE-
$5 ACOT GIFT CARD- mom2ellabell (I will get you gift card to you in the next few hours)
RAK- scrapsteph (Please PM me your mailing address so I can get your goodies out to you on Monday)
Charleneanne 
I'd like to submit this for the challenge. I plan on making several more squares for spring and summer, that way she can change it for many different occasions.
