Sometimes, my husband has days that just straight-up suck.
Granted, we all have those. I have those. But his sucky days always seem just a little suckier than my own. (How many times can I use the word “suck”?)
Seriously, though. I might complain that our son would not. stop. throwing. tantrums. all day long, but when he gets home and has gotten into a fight with someone high on drugs or seen something he really, truly wishes he hadn’t, that pretty much takes the cake.
I can’t tell you how much I admire him (and his fellow officers) for the sacrifices they make. I’m glad they’re willing and able to do the things I’m not.
So for police appreciation week, what better way to say thank you than with a little humor?
When I was scrolling through Pinterest the other day, I saw these and they made me smile… so I thought they just might make the officers in my husband’s department smile, too!
While I liked the idea of the vase, I really wanted each sucker to have its own message. So with a little trial and error, I managed to create some lollipop wraps I liked.
I cut the squares out (there are nice guide lines on the printables that make it easy to cut it straight – you’re welcome!), then taped them on the suckers. Easy peasy.
I made three different colors on the offchance there are any fire/EMS readers of this blog – that way you can borrow the idea for them, as well! Not that it wouldn’t have worked in just the blue, but hey. Why not?
Here’s a completed one for each color. Now, you definitely don’t have to coordinate the color of the sucker to the color of the font at the bottom, I just did it for these ones – they looked fancier that way 🙂
I intended to take a picture of them all together before I dropped them off, but I didn’t. Oops! Trust me when I say they turned out really cute. And the officers loved them 🙂
Sure, they’re nothing big, but sometimes just that little word of encouragement is all we need to make it through our days!
On to the printables so you can make your own. Click the preview for the one you want to go to a printable PDF version. If you want to just make a few, or you need a few more, go ahead and right click the preview, save the file, and insert it into a word document to print as many as you need.
What a cute idea! It’s true, we don’t say, “Thank you!” often enough to those who help us out in a crunch. Thanks for the great idea.
What a great idea Leah. Thank you for sharing.
Love this creative idea! My husband was in the Army and I know he and all his buddies would’ve loved a little treat and gesture like this.
So cool! Maybe I’ll have to make a similar one for the military 🙂
That is so cute and meaningful! Love it!
Thank you!
This is an awesome idea. I may adapt it for our office as well and there is a fire department right down the street from us. Would be a great way to get to know the firemen assigned to our area. I think it would make folks smile on those days when things aren’t going as we would like. Great idea!!!
Thank you so much! I’d love to hear if you do. I’m so happy you like them! 🙂
What a clever idea, too bad I’m having difficulty in printing the labels (File Not Found).
Thank you again for sharing.
Oh, shoot! I’m so sorry about that. I changed hosts a few weeks ago and apparently the file name/location didn’t change! Thank you for letting me know, I’ll get it fixed and I’ll email the pdfs to you!
I can’t get the red/fire dept. ones to print. Can you e-mail the file to me? candicelee74@yahoo.com