Ideas for end of the year Teacher Gifts

[lavenderlady]

We finished school today! My 3rd grade son and I worked on a gift for his teacher together. He gave it to her today and she was just thrilled! Here's what we did... We choose about 10 different candy bar/snack items, ex. Nestle's Crunch, Baby Ruth, Skittles, 100 Grand Bar etc. On each candy bar will attached a note using the candy bar name and relating how great of a teacher she is/accomplishments during the year. We packed all inside a dollar store beach pail with tissue paper and gave it to her today. Here are a few examples that my son came up with: You "ALTOIDS" us First Name, Last Name, Today's Date. Another was, You really taught us how to "CRUNCH" numbers the right way. Lastly he created, Your salary should have been "100 Grand". Be creative and have fun. Your teacher(s) will love the originality.

Please share your ideas!!!

[Tracir]

That is so cute!!

We held a garage sale this weekend with Mike's parents and grandparents. A teacher friend of my MIL's added some stuff and it was all these teacher gifts she had received. I guess it showed me 2 things:

a.) Teachers get tons of "teacher" gifts- pens, notepads, bracelets- etc. all with a teacher theme. I know she appreciated every gift but you can only have so many "teacher" things. The more original the idea- the better.

b.) If you need teacher gifts- keep an eye out at yard sales. She was selling these gifts for 50 cents. Again- she's the sweetest lady so I know she appreciates the gesture- she's been teaching 20 years so she truly just doesn't need these gifts.

Your idea really was cute!