Thank you pressies for pre-school teachers?

cookiedough38

those flower pots are lovely, very personal which is lovely! We get given boxes of chocolates mainly and then share them out on the last day. But I really love the personal gifts that we get now and again so I am sure whatever you give will be really appreciated.

LJM

what a great idea mine leaves too

easter65

My daughter leaves nursery and moves up september...My other girls have always bought their teachers a Silver Necklace with the teachers initial on from Argos...They are around £5.50 but are more personal and are kept longer...plus theyre in a small gift box...:D

themaccas

Loving these ideas, I am looking to buy gifts for my childrens teachers and after school assistants, I think I am going to need about 10 in all and want to start getting things now. I have been looking to get things other than the usual chocs and flowers and there are some great ideas here. Would love to hear of any more.

I must say that I had the thought that a personalised mug, notebook (with the childs photo) would be the most offputting thing a teacher would want but clearly not so I'm going to have a closer look at that option.

dizziblonde

As a teacher (and a sentimental s*d - I've had all my leaving/thank you cards from all the kids I've taught and find them occasionally - only had to have a clear out when I moved house recently), things that are really appreciated are the useful things - mugs and the like go down well as we can keep them in school and use them at breaktimes (most teachers have 2-3 in school as year 6 teachers keep "borrowing them" - even when you have the most tragic football team ever on yer mug)... toiletries tend to be a little bit so-so for a fair few people I've worked with - although I tend to use them over the course of a year when I go away and things (little bottles = useful for that), chocolate of course fuels the entire teaching profession.

I've still got a card one kid painted for me with the comment - since you like chocolate I've painted you some! Had a wonderful thank you note from the child and his family inside.

For all the horror stories you hear about teachers at car boots etc (earlier in the thread), most I know of are quite sentimental creatures who use the painted mugs, fridge magnets etc with pride and can tell you the story of the child who gave you it years later. The only thing I'm wary of getting are plants... mainly as, I'm the kiss of death to plants and feel incredibly guilty when they inevitably die!

Best present I ever saw was a year 6 kid who bought his teacher (our year 6 staff were two men who'd never really grown up) a MASSIVE water super soaker - which was used that final evening ON most of year 6 - never quite seen a teacher with as big a smile on his face as that one - but it was a teacher and class you knew you could get away with that on.

sunrise27_2

JulieV have sent you a pm

craftymummy_2

My DD is leaving preschool this summer and I'm going to get her to draw a picture of each of her teachers and put them in seperate hand decorated frames. I think I'm also going to get an apple shaped cookie cutter and make some shortbread, ice it with red icing and try to write thank you on them. Wrap them up in cellophane.

phunkles

Am I the only person who wouldnt eat a cookie or a cake made by a small child
Id appreciate the sentiment but honestly I wouldnt eat the item unless it was shop bought and wrapped item - so a handful of roses Id be fine with, or a ferrero rocher id be fine with but homemade edible items just make me cringe.
Sorry but thats just me.
Id use a mug and pen and other practical gifts like the coaster
And id keep the thank you notes and cards
(But im a secondary school teacher and I doubt ill ever recieve any gifts lol)

earthmother

We're making these this year - http://www.mistermaker.com/MakeDetails.aspx?make=18&trail=1,8 - effective, yet simple enough even for my 3 year old to get involved with


Edit - 11.07.09 -
We bundled them up in little gift bags with some roses chocolates, and a tag/card saying -

'I know there's a bug in your Roses.
I hope you don't mind, you see
He won't eat them from under your nose(s)
But instead he'll remind you of me.'



They were very well received


By the way - in case anyone wonders - 950g of air-drying clay makes 28 bugs - just - *phew*
And model paint (airfix kits etc) works best on the cotton bud legs