Difficulty: Easy
‘Tis the season for gift giving. Lots of gift giving and if you have kids like me you give gifts to their teachers. I have four kids, so the cost for teacher gifts can really add up if I’m not careful.
Don’t get me wrong. I think my kids’ teachers do an amazing job and they deserve to get a nice gift, but that doesn’t mean I need to break the bank to get them one. Plus, I would imagine that no teacher wants their students’ parents to go into debt to get them a gift, they just think it’s nice to be remembered.
After having given teacher gifts for the past seven years I think I have come up with a really good one. In fact I shared my idea with my sister-in-law Sara, who happens to be a teacher, and she thought it was a great idea.
Mini Gift Basket
Why is my idea a great one for teachers? Because it is a mini gift basket of cold and flu season essentials. It’s mini, because the items fit into a large coffee mug.
Think about it for a second. Christmas falls in the middle of cold and flu season. They spend all day with kids, who breed germs. Teachers could use a dose of prevention as well as some essentials if they succumb to the germs.
The best part about giving this gift is that all of the supplies are available at the Dollar Store. From the mugs, the items inside and the wrapping you can create a nice and useful gift for around $10. Depending on how many gift sets you need to create the cost may come down per gift if you are able to buy multi-packs of certain items, which is what I did.
Keep in mind the policies of your child’s school regarding medication. Originally I was going to put some ibuprofen in the gifts, but then realized that they probably couldn’t bring that to school without a note. Instead I stuck with items that they would be allowed to bring to use during the school day to avoid breaking any rules. If you will be taking the gift to the teacher yourself you could probably add medication.
Supplies:
(These are the things that I used, but you could change things up, just stick with the cold and flu theme)
Large coffee mug
Mini hand sanitizer
Bag of cough drops
Lip balm
Hand cream
Herbal tea
Saline drops
Mini tissue pack
Clear cellophane
Christmas Ribbon
Arrange items inside of mug putting larger items in the back and smaller items in the front.
Take a large square piece of cellophane and place the mug in the center.
Gather the four corners together and tie ribbon around the cellophane.
Trim the top of the cellophane if it is very long. Attach a gift tag and you’re done. I made three of these and it only took about 10 minutes.
For 10 minutes and about $10 my kids can give a useful gift that their teachers will appreciate.
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