Recently, teacher Sydney Natysin asked each of her elementary school students to draw her a heart, giving them each a blank piece of paper and a black marker.
“I didn’t tell them what it was for,” Natysin, 24, of northern Virginia, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “Instead I said it was a surprise.”
Later, Natysin created a picture of all the hearts and uploaded it via app to her Cricut, which printed an iron-on-vinyl she was able to transfer onto a sweatshirt. “I also put the school year on the sleeve to remind myself it was my first year’s hearts,” she adds.
