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Teacher Appreciation Week is the perfect time to show your incredible school staff how much you value their hard work and dedication to the students and entire school community.
This year, why not spice things up with a fun and delicious pizza-themed celebration?
From cheesy lunches to thoughtful gifts, make sure your school staff and teachers feel the love.
Decorations
Show the teachers and staff you’re “dough-lighted to be able to appreciate them by decking out the teacher’s lounge with pizza themed decorations.
Wall & Ceiling
You don’t have to decorate every inch of space, but adding a few themed decorations can show how much time and thought you’d put into Teacher Appreciation Week.
Decorate with hanging pizza themed swirls.
Flank the door to the Teacher’s Lounge or other room that will host the week’s events with a pair of vertical pizza banners.
Spell out your appreciation with this pizza pennant banner.
Layer on a few pizza slice garlands.
Balloons
Balloons are a fun and pretty inexpensive way to decorate a space.
Here are a few pizza themed options:
This pizza decor pack features not only balloons, but garlands, a pennant banner and cupcake toppers.
This pizza balloon collection is a fun mix with pizza boxes and pepperoni slices.
Ready to make a balloon arch? This balloon mix is a good starter set.
Balloon arches are pretty easy to do with a little practice.
Table
Don’t forget to decorate the table spaces in the room.
Table cloths serve more than just a pretty purpose. They also protect the space and make clean up a snap!
This red gingham check tablecloth coordinates well with the other pizza decor.
A pizza graphic table runner will break up the gingham pattern nicely.
Pop up pizza table toppers are a fun way to add some vertical interest to the table scape.
Group a few of these pizza graphics on a stick in tall flower vases for another vertical decor option.
Daily Ideas for an Entire Teacher Appreciation Week
Monday
Start the week of appreciation off with a pizza party luncheon feast!
For the menu, serve up a variety of pizzas with meaty and vegetarian options.
Don’t forget about your vegan and gluten-free friends and offer choices for them as well.
Provide multiple side dishes, including a fresh green salad with multiple salad dressing varieties, garlic knots or breadsticks, caprese salad skewers and a fruit salad.
For dessert, whip up a few batches of pizza cookies or a few large fruit pizzas.
Disposable paperwork is your friend to pull the luncheon!
This tableware set has two different pizza themed designs.
This black background pizza print is so visually appealing.
Use themed food labels to identify vegan and vegetarian option, as well as other allergens to help those with specific dietary needs.
Tuesday
Tell the teachers and staff thank you with personalized notes!
Plan for this day in advance by bringing stacks of pizza themed notecards to a few PTO meeting prior to your pizza themed teacher appreciation week.
Parents and students can help write cards of thanks and personalize their expressions of gratitude.
Deliver the notes the night before in staff mailboxes or right to their desks for a nice surprise to start their day.
Wednesday
Offer a breakfast spread to power teachers and staff through the day.
This post has all the details on how to easily put on a breakfast appreciation event.
This pizza tableware set has plates in two sizes, perfect for breakfast appetites.
Thursday
Put together some small treats to delight them!
Surely there’s a baker in the PTO who can bake and decorate some pizza cookies.
Wrap up the cookies in these custom pizza boxes.
A fruity gummy pizza is a unique staff treat.
Pizza Combos are a more traditional pizza flavored snack.
Give every staff member a change to win a prize with a scratch off game ticket.
Flex prizes to fit your budget.
You can also source prizes by getting donations from local businesses.
Need ideas for prizes?
Here’s a few ideas to get your creative thinking juices flowing:
- Anything to help with relaxing and de-stressing: Lavender eye pillow, a gift certificate to a local massage therapist, bath bombs, etc.
- Travel coffee mug
- Restaurant gift card
- Stainless steel water bottle
- Carline duty swap
- A gift basket with healthy treats
- School spirit wear
Wrap up bigger gifts in this pizza gift bag.
These pizza gift boxes are perfect for smaller treats.
Friday
End the week of fun on a sweet note with a pizza themed dessert bar!
It’s easy to bake a few batches of cupcakes. Recruit volunteers to make a dozen or two.
Unify the look of the batches by using the same set of cupcake toppers.
And red, white and green sprinkles with mini pizzas will help coordinate the cupcake batches too.
Cupcake liners are an inexpensive addition to further deep dive on the theme.
You can never go wrong with gingham!
How cute are these pizza cupcake wraps?
Slice up this chocolate pizza so staff can easily grab a slice.
Dress up ordinary Hershey’s Kisses with some pizza stickers.
Keep a good stock of napkins on hand to keep hands clean!
Over to you
And that’s all there is to creating a fun and saucy pizza themed staff appreciation week!
By incorporating these pizza-themed ideas, you can create a memorable and enjoyable Teacher Appreciation Week that truly shows your school staff how much they are valued.
Make it a week filled with delicious “dough”-lightful moments!
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