Christmas presents for teachers

rainmac

Shelley3774 wrote: »

The pot of gold idea is brilliant - its my Dads birthday on the 8th and he is struggling financially at the moment after his recent divorce from my Mum so I think this would be lovely to do for him. I will even put cash in it. Thanks for the idea x:T

Great idea Shelley, don't forget the lottery ticket, he could be lucky and win :T

Shelley3774

rainmac wrote: »

Great idea Shelley, don't forget the lottery ticket, he could be lucky and win :T

Thanks Rainmac I will definitely put the lottery tickets in and keep my fingers crossed :D:D

Lickul_miss

lol, before i found this website i was skint and couldn't afford a prezzie for my dad 1 yr for his birthday so i bought him a scratch card an put it in his birthday card.........he won £20 on it, an offered it me back lol bless him

bunbun2

that wasn't my pot of gold - mine wasn't so luxurious:rotfl: I had quite a few to do (6 teachers and 8 table decorations) so I was mean and didn't put a scratchcard in mine!

this is a photo of mine. sorry the photo isn't great.

Becles

Mine normally buy the teachers something from Oxfam Unwrapped. I've helped out in school and I know the teachers get piles of stuff. They like the school related Oxfam gift as it means less priviledged children out there are really benefitting from their gift.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/Hub.aspx?catalog=Unwrapped

barbeka

I did bags of gold as table decorations last year. I used gold coloured serviettes & put in each one a scratchcard (you can get ones with gold in their name) & a few gold choc coins and gold wrapped choc mints - I know some people put in ferrer rocher.

If the teacher has a sense of humour you could do chocolate covered raisins as reindeer poo! There's a poem on here somewhere to go with it.

rainmac

I've bought small ceramic bowls (cereal bowl size) from Whittard today for my pots of gold. The bowls were half price, £1.25 each and are in lovely colours - purple, green, blue or red (the inner bit is cream and the colour is on the outside of the bowl). Also got some Ferrero Rocher (sp????). Now need scratch cards (going to wait and get Xmas £1 ones) and chocolate coins! I've got gold cello to wrap the bowls in so they should look pretty good for not much £. Going to give them to DS1's teacher & classroom assistants (3 in all), one to my m&d (with 2 scratch cards) and one for the OH.

Thanks so much for the great idea

MrsE_2

I think for men you can't beat a nice tin of Scottish shortbread (well my DH loves it & FIL).

Last time I was in M&S it was half price.

tootiefrooties

rainmac wrote: »

I've bought small ceramic bowls (cereal bowl size) from Whittard today for my pots of gold. The bowls were half price, £1.25 each and are in lovely colours - purple, green, blue or red (the inner bit is cream and the colour is on the outside of the bowl). Also got some Ferrero Rocher (sp????). Now need scratch cards (going to wait and get Xmas £1 ones) and chocolate coins! I've got gold cello to wrap the bowls in so they should look pretty good for not much £. Going to give them to DS1's teacher & classroom assistants (3 in all), one to my m&d (with 2 scratch cards) and one for the OH.

Thanks so much for the great idea

As long as they don't win a million and quit teaching :rotfl:

lunar

Thank you so much for the pot of gold idea. Ive been out and bought bits to make them up to use as place settings for the table on christmas day. they will look brilliant and save money as they will replace the table gift we usually have in our family.