Crafter Nora Griffin decided not to choose between giving gift cards or flowers to her son’s teachers—she did both, delivering the cards as part of a bouquet of paper flowers. Griffin, whose blog is called Just Make Stuff, made buckets of daisies for her son’s teachers at Far Horizons Montessori School in Orange, Calif. This idea works well for class gifts, too—time-strapped parents can contribute gift cards, and crafty parents can make the flowers. Attach a gift card to the back of each flower, and attach the flower to a wooden dowel for a stem. Fill a small bucket or vase with pebbles, sunflower seeds, or floral foam and plant the flowers.
