Teacher appreciation Gift

[#1hoosierfan]

I think a $5 gift card is a great idea... especially to someplace like a coffee shop or ice cream place.

 

[danielocha30]

thanks for all your responses, Gift cards will be!!! Probably from Dunking Donuts, I have always see most of my kids teachers carrying around DD cups

 

[Cinderella94]

All gifts would be appreciated for their thoughtfulness, but if we're talking about what the teacher would actually enjoy using, I would say a $5 gift card is better than:

- an ornament
- a mug
- anything that has to do with being a teacher
- something from bath & body works
- something home made

 

[jormom1030]

I am a teacher, and most of my teacher friends and I love Papermate Flair pens in tons of colors. I bought a package of 20 of them at SAMs Clubs and divided them up into bundles of 3 or 4 and attached a note saying, "Thanks for teaching me all the 'write' stuff."

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

If you're looking for cheaper than $5, then try a cute summer- themed dishtowel. USEFUL!

 

[Thing 1]

My favorite ever was a gift card flower. I bought a $ store flower pot and some florist foam and card holder. I cut flowers our of foam and attached it to the card holder inserted into th foam. Each flower has a small amount gift card ( like 5.00) to places like doughnut and coffee or ice cream shops. One card had my child's picture. Teacher loved it . You can do the number of flowers that suits your budget.

 

[Mrs. Ciz]

I am a teacher, and most of my teacher friends and I love Papermate Flair pens in tons of colors. I bought a package of 20 of them at SAMs Clubs and divided them up into bundles of 3 or 4 and attached a note saying, "Thanks for teaching me all the 'write' stuff."

I'm a teacher too. A few of my students have given me thank you cards with a little bag filled with 2 or 3 dry erase markers and a couple of Hershey kisses. I loved it! I go through those markers like crazy!!!

 

[leebee]

I was going to say either $5 card to Dunkin Donuts or some Expo dry erase markers in pretty colors. I go through those things like crazy, and it really helps to have more than black and red markers! I really like the Expo markers best; they erase the cleanest. Nothing I hate than erasing a board and having smears and shadows from cheap markers!

This week has been teacher appreciation week at my school, and I have to say, our PTF is the BEST. On Monday there was a breakfast spread in the teachers room, including muffins, bagels, different flavored coffees, yogurt, juices, and fruit. Tuesday was Whoopee Pie Day! Regular, chocolate chip, double chocolate, maple, lemon, raspberry, peanut butter, mint, oatmeal... AMAZING!! Today there was a lunch buffet. Always in past years it's been a pot luck, but this year it was catered from the local BBQ restaurant- pulled pork, smoked turkey, beans, cole slaw, mac-and-cheese, cornbread- and the parents brought in baked goods. Tomorrow there'll be a yogurt bar in the teachers room, so that'll most likely be a variety of yogurts, fresh fruit, granola, drizzles (honey, maple syrup). On Friday, two massage therapists come in and we can make appointments for neck, head, hand, or foot massages. While this isn't my favorite (I actually hate massages), lots of the teachers are signed up, and I really appreciate that our PTF goes "all out" for the teachers during this week!

 

[hippiechicken]

My favorite thing is a letter from the student telling me how much I have helped them and how I am the most amazing teacher ever!! I have several on my refrigerator and like to reread them, especially on hard days..

 

[tarheel618]

5 dollar gift cards are fine- scratch off lotto tickets are fun too

 

[brooke789]

I hadn't done anything g for my first graders' teachers. I think I'll stop at Dunkin on the way home to pick up a GC for them and have the kids write them a thank you note

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

This year our school decided to stretch it out over a week. The idea was to spoil the teachers with a small gift each day. The themes were:

Monday - favorite drink
Tuesday - scratch off lotto tickets
Wednesday - classroom supplies
Thursday - thank you note from the student
Friday - favorite snack

In the past I have done $5 gift cards to coffee shops (Starbucks, Tim Hortons) or fast food restaurants. I think even $5 is appreciated by teachers....who doesn't want a free coffee or lunch?!

 

[Meriweather]

My daughter is a teacher.....please no more coffee mugs.
Some of her students know her well enough to personalize......she likes crazy socks, a couple sports teams and good chocolate.....but there are a LOT of things that would be wasted on her.

Gift cards are the best.....even $5. She is poor......but to a generic place like Target

 

[Bren's Mom]

FYI! I concur with the DD gift card idea. I did that one year, and my DD generously gave me the same # of size small clear DD coollatta/iced tea cups, with flat lids and straws. I bought bright pink paper shreds at the dollar store, and filled each cup with the paper shreds and one gift card. I attached a tag to the straw with DD colors of the teeny tiny really cheap ribbon you get at craft store.

 

[Liberty Belle]

My youngest is in middle school and we generally stopped giving teacher appreciation gifts in elementary. However, this year I'm giving his favorite teacher (who just really went above and beyond - incredibly above and beyond) a tie bar/clip with a little globe on it. He teaches social studies and wears ties every day.

Please don't forget your paras. I rarely got a gift when I was a para, but when I did it was an extremely pleasant surprise.

I would do either a bouquet of flowers (love that idea!) or a $5 - $10 gift card. A $5 gift card to Starbucks can get the teacher a nice treat and a $5 card to Half Price books or even Barnes and Noble, can get him/her a summer book to read.

 

[rastahomie]

Money

 

[sk!mom]

yeah that will work, but my children have 6-7 teachers between all 3 of them, gifts cards will be too much, specially when I'm not giving them $5 giftcard, is a joke!

Teacher here and I'd rather have a $5 gc to Starbucks then pretty much anything else.

 

[bethbuchall]

I'm a preschool teacher, so my answers are skewed a bit to the younger set. We don't have Teacher Appreciation Day/Week, but many families do get us end-of-the-year gifts. I'm grateful for anything, but my favorites are pictures/cards made by the student and notes from the parents, especially if they are personal and include specific examples. We always put a "Mother's Day Interview" together asking the children questions about their moms' favorite foods, tv shows, etc. One year a mother made up an interview about us that she asked her child those types of questions about us. It was so cute!

$5 is definitely not too small a gift card!

I feel a little guilty that I don't do much for the high school teachers, but trying to get my teenage boy to give gifts/cards to his teacher is nearly impossible.

 

[Grumpy's Gal]

Please don't forget middle school teachers. My dd was very crafty in middle school and loved to make cards. I'll never forget when she had made a Xmas card for a math teacher with a math joke inside. The teacher said it was the only card she got from a student. It meant the world to the teacher.

 

[brooke789]

I hadn't done anything g for my first graders' teachers. I think I'll stop at Dunkin on the way home to pick up a GC for them and have the kids write them a thank you note

Quoting myself for an update! Stopped and bought $10 Starbucks GCs for the teachers and printed off a cute questionnaire from Pinterest. Kids filled it out and I attached the gift card - super easy. Then last night about 8pm I have an email from one of the room moms asking people to send in things this AM to send a meal home with the teacher today. So that's even way more last minute than I was.