Please share your teacher Christmas ideas!!!

[LenaGardner]

I've procrastinated long enough, school is out on Friday and it's time to do or die LOL. Here is my dilemma though. We have 2 teachers, 3 aides and 1 speech therapist. (and 1 bus driver/2 bus monitors but they'll likely just get a dozen cookies each). I want to get the two teachers, three aides and speech therapist all the same gift or a variation on it but one of the aides is a guy

I want to make the gifts.

Please help!

[isaacsmom]

I will be watching this thread as well...hope somebody has some fabulous ideas!!! Cause I have majorly procrastinated -- and I've got quite a few to do also!!!

[Joana1n]

I saw a cute pin on pinterest (which is NOT loading now ) that had an inexpensive ceramic plate from WalMart with a dry erase marker attached to the back of it and the whole set-up was sitting on an easel.

[sczos911]

We are doing mugs with hot coco and flavored coffee, spoons dipped in chocolate & decorated by the girls along with pretzel rods dipped and biscotti dipped. We'll be dipping on Saturday.

[LenaGardner]

Originally Posted by sczos911

We are doing mugs with hot coco and flavored coffee, spoons dipped in chocolate & decorated by the girls along with pretzel rods dipped and biscotti dipped. We'll be dipping on Saturday.

I like this idea, too!

[SmallMoments]

These were what I was GOING to do, but instead I just packaged up some of my homemade hot cocoa and I'm giving them that.



I REALLY wanted to do this, but couldn't find cheap whisks ANYWHERE. So weird!

[mlrw70]

Okay Lena, what did you end up doing?

[KimberlyMorris]

I think I'm going to do fuzzy sock cupcakes. Something like this with a Christmas theme.

[LenaGardner]

Originally Posted by KimberlyMorris

I think I'm going to do fuzzy sock cupcakes. Something like this with a Christmas theme.

Can I have a link to this, please?

[KimberlyMorris]

Originally Posted by LenaGardner

Can I have a link to this, please?

Sure thing!
http://thegreenbeanscrafterole.blogs...-cupcakes.html

[Tracyfish]

Well my thought was to make fortune cookies with the slips of paper inside to have things L.J. likes about his teacher on them. Walmart and Target both had really cute "take-out" type Christmas boxes. Since I don't have time this week to make them they will be done for Teacher Appreciation instead.

I am going with a gift box with fuzzy socks, hot cocoa, chocolate candy and a gift card.

Just thought I'd throw that idea out there.

[Lyd]

I ended up making those cute fuzzy sock cupcakes and paired them with a GC to Target for my boys' teachers. Well, I just got an e-mail from Ian's teacher thanking me for the gift and telling me that she got a "kick" out of them. Thanks for the great idea gals!

[maryinaz]

Thanks to this thread, I ended up doing this idea by Juli, for my friends, I loved her idea to add a calendar and I also added rhinestones for the center of the flowers - they loved them! (You can see the other months in my gallery.)

[jacinda]

Originally Posted by maryinaz

Thanks to this thread, I ended up doing this idea by Juli, for my friends, I loved her idea to add a calendar and I also added rhinestones for the center of the flowers - they loved them! (You can see the other months in my gallery.)

Wow, they turned out wonderful!

[LenaGardner]

This is what I ended up doing!

For the kids' classmates. I did 34 of these, and I didn't get the idea from anywhere LOL I just came up with it on my own and measured the Play-Doh label and replaced it.





I did these for the teachers/aides/therapists/secretary. I made 7 of them







The kids had a decent haul to take with them on the last day of school LOL.



And I made these for the bus driver and two bus aides. Inside was more cocoa fixins! You can't see it in this photo but to the right of the bus is a chalkboard that says, "Thank you for all you do!". It needed be a little less personalized because I don't know all their names!

[rach3975]

What great gifts! I ended up doing tins full of homemade brownie bites and Target gift cards for the 5 main teachers and just small tins of brownies for the therapists that only see my DS a couple of hours a month.

[jacinda]

Lena those are awesome! I bet the bus drivers really appreciated being thought of too.

[LenaGardner]

Thanks, Jacinda! They really did. Actually, the bus was THIRTY minutes late on that day, too. There was "an issue with a student" (that's all they told me). So they were especially grateful!