Teacher appreciation gifts

[Megan Turnidge]

What are you giving to your kids' teachers at the end of the year? I've pinned some fun ideas, but I'm not sure I've found the perfect gift yet!

[jacinda]

I just found this today, and love it. I think I'll do this for our next teacher gift. Put it in a frame with big bow and a gift card or something. Image is linked.

[littlekiwi]

oh boy - I'll have to think of this too since I am student rep for my class. Don't really want to go down the cards and chocolates route but if I have to I will (but will use flowers or something for one as she doesn't like sweets - she keeps any she gets and gives them back to us)

[rach3975]

In December I scrap or bake something to give with a small gift card. At the end of the year I do a gift card as the main gift for teachers. I'll scrap a card, buy or make a few little things to go with the gift card (things like a pen and notebook with a hybrid cover), and put it all in a small metal bucket (the kind from Target's $1 section). School therapists I'll bake for. I think Amazon lets you use your own picture on a gift card. If they do it for physical cards instead of just e-cards, I may scrap the gift cards.

[lorigaud]

That's a great quote Jacinda... TFS! I am making a scrapbook for my son's 5th grade teacher, since it's her first year of teaching. I think I will have to use that quote somewhere in it....

[Julie Billingsley]

We had Teacher Appreciation week last week for the elementary school. I gave his teacher and principal each a set of movie passes that I got from Costco. I put them in a cute "popcorn box" and put some candy in it too. It was so cute... and yet I forgot to take a pic of them.

[lorigaud]

We'll just have to take your word for it then, Julie.... lol. It does sound like a cute idea!

[Megan Turnidge]

Jacinda! I pinned that last night too! hehe

[kscwgirl]

Well we just had teacher appreciation week, you can find all my stuff on Penny's blog.

For end of the year for J's teacher.. we're making a book... the kids are drawing pictures of what they think their teacher does during the summer and the parents are sending in $5 gift cards relating to the drawing and then I'll put them in a book for her.

I don't know what we are going to do for Abby's teacher yet but it has to be completely awesome since she has just been incredible for her this year.

[Sherri Tierney]

We celebrated teacher appreciation week last week too. On Monday the kids took their teachers a lip balm with the school mascot. I used Zoe's School Days kit and took the little report card from it. I made the report card out so that the kid was evaluating the teacher. I put stuff like 'caring A+ challenging me A+' and then I put in red at the bottom, kind of written over it all, 'Teacher, I think you're the BALM'. On Tuesday they took in a SKOR candy bar with a note (also made from Zoe's kit) for it. It said perfect score with the kit word art and then said "I really SKORed when I got you for a teacher". Wednesday was a tin of mints with the school mascot on them and a note saying "You were mint to be my teacher". Thursday they took bottles of A&W rootbeer with a little tag on them saying 'You are an AWesome teacher, take 5 for yourself' and the tags had a fun sized Take 5 bar taped to them. Super cute. On Friday everyone got two candy bards wrapped up together with a note saying "I think you're worth 100 Grand on Pay Day" The candy bars were obviously 100 Grand and Pay Day I put together a big bag of stuff for each teacher for Friday too (well, for Monday in the case of my littlest, his teacher was away on Friday so he took hers today). I made each teacher a mug through Shutterfly with a picture of the whole class on it. They said something to the effect of thank you from your 2011-2012 students. I gave each teacher a calendar that starts in August and runs through the whole school year. I made those through Shutterfly too earlier in the year when I had free calendar codes. I made each a desk organizer and a personalized notepad too. I threw in some school supplies to get them started for next year too. It was a lot of fun.