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!

School's Out For Summer... Almost!

Graduation Shirts

The school year is about over, I guess! Since we had so many snow days this past winter the local school districts had to extend the school year by several days so I'm not really sure when the last day is for everyone in our area. Well, the extra days work for me allowing extra time to figure out my teacher appreciation gifts. I'm also thinking about some end of school year/graduation shirts for the little ones. In my experience, my kiddos and their friends love wearing their very own personalized tees.  The shirts for preschoolers and kindergarten graduates are so cute!  I love the design featuring the little boy or girl graduate and especially love that you can customize the skin tone and hair color. There is also a more generic design with a grad cap and diploma which can also be personalized with your little graduate's name. I think the adorable end of year hoot owl shirt is so funny too and perfect for any young school aged child! Now, it's a little more difficult deciding on a teacher appreciation gift since I don't really interact on a regular basis with the teachers to know their personal likes and dislikes.  For me, I really love the tote bags since I always have way too many things to lug around! So I think my kids' teachers might very well like a personalized tote with possibly a matching acrylic tumbler or water bottle as a special thank you for a great year. Zoey's Attic also has many more gift ideas for teachers such as personalized shirts, mugs, and keepsake pillows. Well, I think I'd better make up my mind soon because before you know it school will be out for summer!

Teacher Appreciation Gifts