Teachers: Gifts for Students?

[meway]

Just wondering if those of you who are teachers give your students anything for Christmas. I have 76 students, so if I give them anything, it's going to have to be small! Any budget ideas?

Thanks in advance!

 

[B714210]

I am an elementary school teacher who does buy or make gifts for her students each year. What grades do you teach?

 

[kimsuenew]

Just wondering if those of you who are teachers give your students anything for Christmas. I have 76 students, so if I give them anything, it's going to have to be small! Any budget ideas?

Thanks in advance!

76?! WOW!

I have a self-contained classroom of 8 so my purchase was nominal compared to what yours will be. What ages do you have?

I bought mine each a personalized Disney throw (when they were on sale, had free S&H and free personalization). These were less than $10.00 each!

I also went to the two local "dollar stores" and found Disney stockings (I personalized with glitter and glue) for $1.00 each and several stocking fillers (pens, pencils, Christmas straws, Hot Wheels for the boys, flavored lip balm for my girls, stickers, ect... no candy but will put in their favored fresh fruit on the gifting day). I will have about $6.00 or so in these.

For the amount of students that you have, I was wondering about personalizing those mini-stockings and adding a candy cane, pen, pencil, eraser, straw that are Christmas themed? The dollar type stores have the pens, pencils, erasers, straws, ect... in packages so I think you could do the entire stocking less than $1.00 per child.

Good luck and Merry Christmas!

 

[sPaRkLeSpAz]

We have six special needs kids in our self contained classroom, and the teacher, the other para and I are going in together to get the five boys remote control cars (they all LOVE these) and the girl a baby doll.

 

[Disneyluvr]

I'm gonna guess with that many students you must teach middle or high school where you have several classes a day. So I think maybe a gift bag with candy and other food treats would be good. If you have a Costo or Sam's club near you could get big boxes of individual chips, granola bars, trail mix, all kinds of treats kids would love, maybe add a pencil or pen

 

[eeyorethegreat]

I have about 20 I am going to get pencils since they are always losing theirs and my stash of extras is just about gone! Maybe a little treat as well.

 

[amy-momofthree]

I'm not a teacher, but what about a party for each class? You could bring brownies and juice for everyone and play games during their class period.

Also , depending on what grades you teach, my kids have received books as a gift. They were in 1st and 2nd grade last year. The teacher got those books in a set
and then gave them out individually.

My kids loved the books but they thought their teacher making
brownies for them for them was really special

 

[nena]

I give my Kindergarteners a book for Christmas. I get them from Scholastic.com from the $1 section.

 

[Evi]

I would keep it really simple someone mentioned pencils. You could do something food based but would be labor intensive homemade cookies or brownies.

 

[snowy76]

I always check the dollar spot at Target. They have everything from bath products to puzzles and small toys.

Another idea might be to make a donation in the class(es)' name to a charity - what about something like Heifer Internatonal? A sheep or goat is $120 but you can donate a flock of geese or ducks for only $20. Or a care package to the troops?

 

[englishteacha]

Last year after Christmas I bought pencils on sale. I'm giving those to my 60 students.

 

[AZMermaid]

I give my Kindergarteners a book for Christmas. I get them from Scholastic.com from the $1 section.

I do the same thing for my first graders, using my Scholastic points. I also give them a pencil because like a PP said, they always lose theirs, so in a way, that is a gift for me too!

If I had that many, I like the idea of a little party with treats or just the pencils.

 

[poohbear2]

I have anywhere from 120-150 students a year. I don't buy presents for them for obvious reasons but I do a Bingo Vocab game the day before the vacation. I will give out 5 or so prizes a class period.

 

[englishteacha]

Last year after Christmas I bought pencils on sale. I'm giving those to my 60 students.

 

[v.t.]

If it is the older grades, you could give them a free tardy pass or an extra day to turn in homework, something like that. You could pop popcorn for a movie day. One of our teachers has stinky feet day. The kids get to take their shoes off, it is a huge hit.

 

[daisyduck123]

I give each a "HOMEWORK COUPON - good for one night of NO Math homework".

I create it myself on the computer, usually in a snowman theme.


The kids love 'em.
The parents love 'em.
And they don't cost me a cent!

 

[leebee]

I give each a "HOMEWORK COUPON - good for one night of NO Math homework".

I create it myself on the computer, usually in a snowman theme.


The kids love 'em.
The parents love 'em.
And they don't cost me a cent!

THIS is a great idea!!

I was going to suggest pencils and erasers. Christmas-themed erasers come 12 to a package at Dollar Tree, and I think the pencils are also packed in 12's. I am an ed tech and have 43 kids in the two 8th grade math classes I support. I usually get some holiday-themed zip-bags (pkg of 40 for $1 at Dollar Tree) and a couple of bags of wrapped chocolates (like andes or kisses) and put a pencil, eraser, and a couple of treats in the bag. For about $15, everyone gets a "gift" from me. For 8th grade graduation, I always buy mini-ducks from Oriental Trading. They are about 1.5" high and are yellow rubber duckies wearing mortarboards and gowns. They cost a little bit more, but the kids LOVE them!!

 

[dougsmom98]

I teach high school and have lots of students. I always give a pencil and a lollipop to my students. We aren't really suppose to give out candy, but I break the rules for Christmas and some of the other teachers do too. So few teachers do anything because of the expense, so they always appreciate it. I used to have an advisory (home room) of 20 kids that I saw every morning for four years. I would do a little more for them. I gave them those squishy water ball things that you can get at Oriental Trading one year - they loved them. I also had pictures of them that I took throughout the year, so I printed one of each of them and made them each a photo ornament last year.

 

[JeannieNM]

I give each a "HOMEWORK COUPON - good for one night of NO Math homework".

I create it myself on the computer, usually in a snowman theme.


The kids love 'em.
The parents love 'em.
And they don't cost me a cent!

I am not a teacher (though I did teach at a University years ago) but I am a mom of a high school student. She loves when teacher's hand out Homework Coupons....they are the best!!!!

 

[pigget74]

I am passing out the jolly rancher thin sticks...I am putting three together binding with ribbon and a note that says "Have a holly, JOLLY Christmas", and a homework pass. I teach 76 kids as well, but I have 2 team teachers. Will divide cost among all.