Download this free All About My Teacher printable! Kids fill out this sweet questionnaire and draw a portrait for Teacher Appreciation Week.
Teachers know everything about their students. They know who needs a little extra time, who lights up when you mention dinosaurs, who’s been having a hard week at home, even when nobody said a word. They pay attention in ways that feel almost supernatural.
But flip it around – how much do your kids actually know about their teacher?
My daughter was so confident going in. She grabbed a pencil, sat down with the printable, and knocked out Madame’s favorite color within about three seconds flat. Then she hit the food question and completely stalled. “Wait, I’ve never seen her eat. How would I know?”
What followed was the sweetest little self-assigned homework project. She came back the next day with actual field research – she’d interviewed her French teacher. Every answer she got back made her happier than the last.
That’s what the All About My Teacher printable does. Your child fills it out, the teacher gets something handwritten and genuinely theirs. And somewhere in the middle of all those questions, a kid who never thought twice about their teacher’s life outside the classroom starts to see them as a whole person.
What Is an All About My Teacher Printable?
It’s a one-page questionnaire your child fills out about their teacher – what she looks like, what her favorite color is, what she loves to eat, what her superpower is, and what they love most about her. There’s also a big box at the bottom for a portrait.
Most kids have never stopped to think about any of this. That’s kind of the point. The questions are simple, but they make kids actually pay attention to the person standing at the front of their classroom. And the answers they come up with are usually either really sweet, really funny, or both.
Teachers save these. Some frame them. Some pull them out on hard days.
A Note for Homeschool Moms
You are teachers too. Every single day. You don’t get a Teacher Appreciation Week. Nobody drops a flower on your kitchen table or covers your planning period with a sub. The greatest gift you get – and it is a real gift – is watching your kid actually learn. Watching something click. Watching them love a subject they once dreaded.
But I won’t pretend that a flower once in a while wouldn’t be nice. Or ten uninterrupted minutes to drink a hot cup of coffee before it turns cold. You deserve that too.
Have your kids fill this out for you. You’ve earned it.
Download the Free All About My Teacher Printable
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What’s on the Questionnaire?
Here’s exactly what your child will fill out:
- My teacher’s name is ___
- My teacher has ___ hair and ___ eyes
- I think my teacher is ___ years old
- My teacher’s favorite color is ___
- My teacher loves to eat ___
- My teacher’s superpower is ___
- What I love most about my teacher: ___
- My Amazing Teacher [drawing box]
That superpower question always gets the best answers. Some kids write something sweet, like “she always knows when I’m sad.” Others go with something like “he has eyes in the back of his head.” Both are equally valid.
The icons next to each question (the apple, the rainbow, the lightning bolt, the heart) are all outlined and designed to be colored in. Hand your kid some crayons or colored pencils and let them decorate the page before they fill it out. It turns a 10-minute activity into a little event, and the finished result looks even more like something worth keeping.
How to Fill It Out
This printable works for a wide age range, roughly kindergarten through 5th grade. For younger kids, sit with them and read the questions aloud while they dictate their answers. You can write for them, or let them have a go themselves. Either way, whatever comes out will be wonderful.
Kids in 2nd grade and up can usually tackle it independently. Give them five minutes of quiet and get out of their way.
One last thing: the “My Amazing Teacher” box at the bottom is for a portrait. Accept whatever you get. The abstract ones – the ones where the teacher has a giant circular head and stick arms – are the ones that end up on the desk.
Three Ways to Use This Questionnaire
As a Standalone Gift
Print it on regular paper or cardstock, let your child fill it out, slip it in an envelope, and hand it to the teacher on Monday morning. Done in under 10 minutes, costs nothing, and means more than half the gifts on that teacher’s desk.
Paired with a Simple Gift
Tuck the questionnaire into a gift bag alongside something small – a coffee gift card, a little plant, a good candle. The questionnaire does the personal work; the gift is just a bonus. We paired ours with a small succulent one year, and it was genuinely the easiest Teacher Appreciation gift I’ve ever put together.
Framed as a Keepsake
Print it on white cardstock, let your child fill it out and draw their portrait, then frame it in a simple 5×7 or 8×10 frame. Teachers display these. It costs about $8 in total and looks like you put serious thought into it… because your kid did.
Getting the Best Answers from Your Kid
Ask any child, “What do you love about your teacher?” and there’s a good chance they’ll say, “I don’t know,” while staring at the ceiling. A few things that help:
Read the questions aloud first and let them answer verbally before they write anything down. The spoken answers are almost always better than what they’d write cold, and once they hear themselves say something good, they’ll want to put it on paper.
Do it the night before, not the morning of. The morning of anything is a disaster. Give yourself ten minutes the evening before Teacher Appreciation Week starts.
Ask follow-up questions on the open-ended prompts. “What’s her superpower?” might get a shrug, but “what’s something she does that you’ve never seen another teacher do?” usually gets you something specific and real.
Don’t correct spelling on the way through. Let them write it how they write it. The unconventional phonetic spellings are exactly what make these so endearing to teachers.
And if you have a kid who takes the portrait box very seriously and draws for fifteen minutes, let them. That’s the one the teacher is going to keep on her desk.
More Teacher Appreciation Ideas
If you’re putting together a full Teacher Appreciation Week plan, these posts have everything else you’ll need.
- Free Printable Teacher Appreciation Cards Kids Can Color
- Free Printable Apple Templates and Outlines
- Easy 3D Paper Apple Craft for Kids
- Free Thank You for Being a Great Teacher Printable
One Last Thing
My daughter’s answer about her teacher knowing when someone is sad? Her teacher pulled her aside at the end of that week and told her it was the nicest thing anyone had ever written about her. My daughter came home and told me about it as if it were the best thing that had happened all year.
That’s what a piece of paper with some fill-in-the-blank questions can do.
I hope your kids love filling this out, and I really hope whoever receives it keeps it for a long time.
Drop a comment and tell me what your kid wrote for the superpower question!