Top 5 Graduation Shirts and Teacher Gifts

Can you believe the school year is almost over? Pretty soon it will be the end of the 2016-2017 academic year and the beginning of what will hopefully be a fun and productive summer vacation! Have you made a bucket list of family activities to keep everyone occupied and amused this summer? Top of my list is to relax at the neighborhood pool on opening day!

However, before I can start crossing off the items on my list for summer we first need to finish up the school year! So many little ones are "graduating" from pre-school, or kindergarten, even first or second grade! In my day "graduation" was reserved for high school or college completion. Nowadays we celebrate every major accomplishment and milestone in our childrens' lives... we're making memories and that's always good!

Zoey's Attic Personalized Gifts has the most adorable end of school year and graduation shirts for your little ones! There are also lots of end of year thank you gifts to select from for the teacher! Here are this year's Top 5 Best Selling shirts and gifts for students and teachers:

Our "Love School teacher's personalized adult unisex raglan style shirt" continues to be our Top Selling shirt for school teachers. This adorable top is a teacher favorite and students have chosen this unique shirt as a memorable gift to show their appreciation for a special teacher. The shirt can be personalized with the teacher's name, school name, and grade level. Ink colors can also be customized to reflect school colors if desired.

The "Kindergarten Nailed It" tees featuring a little girl graduate or little boy graduate are Zoey's Attic Best Selling graduation shirts for the kiddos. The graduates are completely customizable for hair color, skin tone, and school colors. You can even request a specific eye color, add glasses, change grade level or wording. We can accommodate most custom requests and all you need to do is add your desired customizations to the "Special Instructions / Notes" section when ordering and we can makes the changes for you.

This year's new design "Last Day of Kindergarten, I am 6 years old..." on a navy blue t-shirt has made the Top 5 list of  popular end of year student shirts. The details of this design are also totally customizable for age, grade level, wording, and ink colors. No problem to change the wording for a Pre-School or First Grade graduate and we can change the age to whatever it needs to be.

The "Love School teacher's personalized tote bag" also makes the Top 5 list of shirts and gifts. This bag matches the #1 selling "Love School Teacher" unisex raglan style shirt detailed above. The canvas tote is available in a value style bag or a heavyweight approximately 12.5" x 15.5" x 7" cotton bag with a gusseted bottom. Ideal for carrying school papers and books!

Any finally, the #5 Top Selling end of school year item is the "Straight Outta Kindergarten" tshirt available in black, navy or hot pink shirt colors. So funny and the perfect shirt for a boy or girl graduate!

Well, there you have it! Congratulations to all our graduates, and enjoy your summer vacation!

Personalized Graduation Tees & Gifts!

When I was a young school girl there was no internet. I had absolutely no knowledge of computers and certainly had no idea of how this advancement in technology would impact everyday life in the future! It's really difficult for me to imagine my life now without being "connected" via the internet! Our kiddos surely live in a vastly different world than I did when I was a youngster. We actually shopped in a real brick and mortar store as there was no online shopping in those days! Our parents took us to the local discount store, either Spartans (long since closed) or K-Mart for our play clothes. Famous Barr, which is now a Macy's, and Stix, Baer and Fuller (currently a Dillard's) were the nearby department stores. We only shopped at these stores for special occasions! This is where we went to purchase our outfits for family weddings, Christmas, or Easter. Then of course every August we went into the city to visit Wilhelms, a specialty shop which carried our school uniforms. We did have a few out-of-uniform days during the school year and if you wanted to wear personalized clothing you had to have your mom or grandma make them for you. I was certainly very fortunate that my Aunt Mary Jane was an excellent seamstress. She could make anything! When I graduated from the 8th grade she made me two beautiful A-line dresses. One was a sleeveless blue paisley patterned dress to wear to summer events, the other a short sleeved tan corduroy dress with an orange and rust flowered pattern to wear to the upcoming Fall dances. I couldn't have been any happier with this special gift my Aunt made just for me!

So in the "olden days" we didn't have anything personalized with our name unless mom made it, and that meant a trip to the local fabric shop to purchase iron-on patches. After carefully placing the selected decals and letters of our name on the shirt Mom would affix them with a very hot iron. Unfortunately, the personalization would peel off the shirt after its first washing. Embroidery was another method of personalizing our clothing, but you had to know someone who could embroider! Back then it was done by hand and not by a machine.

Oh, and there were no preschools when I was a little girl so there was never a need for a preschool graduation outfit. However, the last day of kindergarten (1/2 day only) was dress up day! How special it would have been to wear a custom created shirt acknowledging a successful completion to my first year of formal education! I would have been so ahead of the times... a real fashionista! With the technology available today it is totally possible to personalize a shirt to wear on your last day of the school year or at your graduation ceremony! The designers at Zoey's Attic Personalized Gifts can create the perfect shirt with everything competely customizable including school grade, year, school name, student name, even skin tone and hair color if applicable. The shirts are digitally printed with the fibers of the garment actually being dyed with eco-friendly water based inks. This means no crackies or peeling like the iron-ons of my past! Personalized shirts from Zoey's Attic will make a fabulous keepsake for years to come! And be sure to check out Zoey's awesome school shirts and thank gifts for teachers too!

2 DAY FLASH SALE!

Mother's Day is over and it's time to celebrate our young graduates! It's also time for a sale! Zoey's Attic Personalized Gifts has a great deal on these adorable personalized graduation shirts for your little one! Our 2 DAY FLASH SALE STARTS NOW! Save *25% on this  "NAILED IT!" tee or sporty raglan style shirt! Our shirts can also be customized for pre-school, kindergarten, first grade, or whatever grade you need. Just let us know your custom requests in the "Special Instructions / Notes" section when ordering. Use coupon code FLASH25 at checkout at our Zoey's Attic Personalized Gifts online store. *Offer applies to merchandise total only. Shipping charges will be calculated at checkout. Discounts not valid on bulk or corporation purchases of 10 shirts or more. Discount code expires May 14, 2015 at 11:59 p.m. CST.

Nailed It Graduation Raglan Shirt

Nailed It Graduation T-Shirt

School's Out, Almost!

When I was in school students were never recognized for completing any grade other than on your High School graduation day.You were expected to "graduate" at the end of each school year and as a result of your efforts recommended for promotion to the next grade level the following year. So that meant no special shirts acknowledging the last day of a particular grade and no congratulatory presents for advancing to a new grade level, only a "good job" after Mom and Dad reviewed the final report card and shared constructive criticism of what could have or should have been better. We wore our school uniform everyday of the school year. After an exhausting nine months of daily classwork as well as homework, it was finally the end of the school year and time for our student parade, school picnic, and summer vacation! Looking back, I suppose the new picnic outfit was the "gift" we each received for "graduating" that year. We did, however, always give our teachers a special gift at Christmas and the end of each school year.  When I was in grade school we had 54 kids in our second grade class with one teacher and not a single teacher's aide to assist. Mrs. Krause most definitely earned each and every thank you gift!

Times have changed and our precious little one's are recognized for everything! Just participate and you get a ribbon! It was definitely a different lifestyle when I was young. We didn't have preschools and kindergarten was merely a half day and you were assigned to a morning or afternoon session. We walked to and from class with several of our 5 and 6 year old classmates. There was no parental supervision and somehow we all survived! The moms for the most part were stay at home moms tending to the smaller siblings and household chores, and the father's wages were the only source of family income. Monies for shirts and gifts, other than for Christmas and birthdays, just wasn't available. No regrets though. I am ever thankful for all the love and shared family experiences of my childhood. Life today is not as simple as it seemed back then, and yes, I do give special recognition to acknowledge the kiddos' achievements. Everyone does nowadays, it's the norm and I wouldn't have it any other way! So if you're looking for a special tee for your little one's pre-school, kindergarten, first grade, or any grade graduation, Zoey's Attic can help. Here you'll also find many cool thank you gifts for your children's teachers including custom tote bags, water bottles and tumblers, sweet custom throw and travel pillows, and personalized shirts too. And, no worries if you need a special design or wording, Zoey can create it for you! Congratulations to all our little grads and a huge thank you to teachers everywhere for your dedication and hard work! Enjoy your summer vacation!

School Shirts and Teacher Gifts from Zoey's Attic