There are only a couple of weeks left before the end of term, and in September most children will be moving on to new teachers and new classrooms. While we’re busy preparing for summer holiday and looking forward to the next stage in school, it’s important to remember to thank those who have helped our children throughout the year! Mr Z and Mr T are lucky to have had great teachers this year. All teachers do a very important job and deserve some appreciation at the end of the school year. Here are some teacher gift ideas to give you some inspiration: {The chocolate giveaway is at the end of the post, make sure you don’t miss it!} Thank you cards that children can make. Click through the link below each one to get the full instructions for each card. Peek-a-boo cards from Tinkerlab
Rainbow thank you cards from Meaningful Mama
Heartfelt and creative thank you cards from Mama Smiles (this one is showing a cycle of all the things the child has learnt with this teacher)
Mini masterpiece watercolour thank you cards from The Imagination Tree
QR code thank you card – when you scan this with you phone, it can play a video message
Teacher gifts that children can make Again, click through each link for the full tutorial.
Hama Bead Owl Keyring from Red Ted Art
Crayon monograms from A Mom with a Lesson Plan
Tissue paper flower pot from From ABCs to ACTs – add a plant and these would make a lovely gift
Vibrantly coloured coffee filter flowers from Fun at Home with Kids Or if you child would like to spend their pocket money to choose a shop bought gift for their teacher then Guylian is ideal. At only £1 for the 46g Sea Horses box they are extremely affordable for even children to buy. They taste great and I’m sure any teacher would appreciate these. As well as being delicious they also look really pretty with the seahorse and sea shell shapes.
Today Guylian are offering one In The Playroom reader the chance to win a lovely selection of Guylian products:
- A Guylian pack of 1x250g Sea Shells
- 1x 374g Sea Horses
- and 2x 46g Sea Horses
Enter via the rafflecopter below: a Rafflecopter giveaway
Win competitions at ThePrizeFinder.com
July 12, 2014 @ 7:42 pm
Just a home made card this year from us.
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July 12, 2014 @ 7:44 pm
some chocs
July 12, 2014 @ 7:44 pm
Hand made choccies xx
July 12, 2014 @ 7:51 pm
some flowers or chocolates
July 12, 2014 @ 8:00 pm
Hand made card and a pretty butterfly scarf x
July 12, 2014 @ 8:53 pm
We had chips in money for the teacher to buy them voucher.
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July 12, 2014 @ 8:53 pm
flowers
July 12, 2014 @ 8:55 pm
Chocolates
July 12, 2014 @ 8:59 pm
no gift, just a thanks
July 12, 2014 @ 9:00 pm
scented candle and card
July 12, 2014 @ 9:10 pm
Stationary and Chocolates x
July 12, 2014 @ 9:19 pm
Chocolates and a candle!
July 12, 2014 @ 9:25 pm
Got some handcreams for her
July 12, 2014 @ 9:38 pm
Gift boxed pen.
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July 12, 2014 @ 9:58 pm
a bottle of something as its my son’s last year at primary school
July 12, 2014 @ 10:06 pm
Usually my children make gifts but we have been really busy so will be giving them chocs
July 12, 2014 @ 10:56 pm
Just a card, I’m actually friends with a few teachers and they say that they are quite inundated with gifts at the end of the school year!
July 12, 2014 @ 11:17 pm
Herbal Tea !!
July 13, 2014 @ 5:16 am
i bought a baker days cake for one teacher who has done such fantastic work this year
July 13, 2014 @ 6:40 am
A card and an apple in a handmade crochet holder
July 13, 2014 @ 6:51 am
Homemade cards and chocolates
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July 13, 2014 @ 7:21 am
No. The school discourages this.
July 13, 2014 @ 8:10 am
No not yet – I need to get sorted soon though!
July 13, 2014 @ 9:33 am
everyone is clubbing together and giving the teacher and has assistants M&S vouchers
July 13, 2014 @ 9:38 am
We are buying a small plant x
July 13, 2014 @ 10:30 am
Nothing decided as yet
July 13, 2014 @ 10:42 am
They’re a bit too young for school!
July 13, 2014 @ 11:12 am
A stationery set
July 13, 2014 @ 12:39 pm
flowers & choccies
July 13, 2014 @ 1:01 pm
A pair of socks.
July 13, 2014 @ 1:11 pm
A house plant.
July 13, 2014 @ 2:15 pm
I don’t usually send a gift at the end of the year – I did give them all some chocolates at Christmas
July 13, 2014 @ 2:23 pm
Just a card
July 13, 2014 @ 2:56 pm
Chocolate!
July 13, 2014 @ 3:52 pm
A pint of beer down the pub.
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July 13, 2014 @ 4:07 pm
chocolate
July 13, 2014 @ 4:19 pm
Yes, a personalised wooden thank you plaque
July 13, 2014 @ 6:56 pm
A card/box of chocolates usually
July 13, 2014 @ 6:59 pm
not yet
July 13, 2014 @ 7:02 pm
A gift card this year, I want the teachers to buy something they really want 🙂
July 13, 2014 @ 7:02 pm
Well not for me, but I think my best friend is trying to win a football shirt for her sons teacher as he’s been so supportive.
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July 13, 2014 @ 7:12 pm
Going to get my son to make a card
July 13, 2014 @ 8:09 pm
some chocolates
July 14, 2014 @ 2:52 am
A hand made card so as it’s personal and same for me I got some love2shop vouchers so they can pick something.
July 14, 2014 @ 6:00 am
Some chocs.
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July 14, 2014 @ 1:36 pm
A home made card.
July 14, 2014 @ 6:05 pm
yes i have got some nice toilitries
July 14, 2014 @ 6:47 pm
just a card
July 14, 2014 @ 7:03 pm
chocs!
July 14, 2014 @ 7:03 pm
not yet, I will be picking something up this week
July 14, 2014 @ 9:26 pm
I’m too poor to be handing out gifts to teachers who are far better off than me! She will just get a card.
July 15, 2014 @ 6:17 am
I am getting some chocolates
July 15, 2014 @ 9:12 am
Can’t go wrong with chocs!
July 15, 2014 @ 5:03 pm
Not decided yet but the children always write a lovely comment in the card
July 15, 2014 @ 5:37 pm
I get my son’s key worker at nursery a yankee candle and chocolates when he moves up a room.
July 15, 2014 @ 9:30 pm
chocolate x
July 16, 2014 @ 8:02 am
A home-made card and a loomband bracelet made specially
July 16, 2014 @ 9:31 pm
A plant 🙂
July 18, 2014 @ 1:56 pm
Thanks, I really enjoyed finding this item. Many thanks for putting it together. I really do hope that other people, get something meaningful from your contribution here, I did.
July 19, 2014 @ 3:22 pm
Some chocolates and a card!
July 20, 2014 @ 12:48 pm
A box of choccys (roses) just to say thankyou
July 20, 2014 @ 11:40 pm
Bath salts
July 21, 2014 @ 8:59 am
nothing why would i
July 23, 2014 @ 6:26 pm
just good old fashioned chocolate! faye x
July 25, 2014 @ 11:36 pm
Not yet.
July 26, 2014 @ 12:45 pm
I always send chocolates or bath things.
July 26, 2014 @ 9:29 pm
We clubbed together for shopping vouchers x
July 27, 2014 @ 11:25 am
A homemade card and pot plant
July 27, 2014 @ 8:15 pm
my kids have left school now thank goodness 🙂
July 28, 2014 @ 2:48 pm
we got some pretty handbag size note pads and my son wrote a little thank you message for each teacher on the first page.
July 29, 2014 @ 12:38 pm
Some bath stuff
July 30, 2014 @ 7:35 am
I am looking forward to trying.
July 30, 2014 @ 6:20 pm
I’ve never given a gift to a Teacher!
July 30, 2014 @ 7:30 pm
Personalised thank u plaque
July 31, 2014 @ 9:25 am
yes, chocolate 🙂
July 31, 2014 @ 9:47 am
chocolate
August 1, 2014 @ 10:53 am
A stationery set
August 2, 2014 @ 7:52 am
bath bombs
August 2, 2014 @ 10:53 am
we decided on some chocs and a card 🙂
August 3, 2014 @ 9:07 am
Just the standard box of chocolates x
August 3, 2014 @ 5:16 pm
My son and his 3 best friends had a photo taken, put it in a frame and wrote messeages around it!
August 4, 2014 @ 10:41 am
Homemade chocolates – made by my children, who I’m sure will do a better job than me. 😉
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August 4, 2014 @ 2:24 pm
a nice candle giftset
August 4, 2014 @ 5:01 pm
we did a home made card, with home made sweeties
August 5, 2014 @ 7:39 am
some sweeties
August 5, 2014 @ 2:03 pm
small bunch of flowers
August 5, 2014 @ 3:31 pm
I don’t have kids myself,but I always used to take a thank-you card and some flowers to my teacher on the last day of term
August 5, 2014 @ 7:20 pm
i havent yet x
August 5, 2014 @ 11:56 pm
no ours stopped weeks ago on holiday
August 6, 2014 @ 4:50 pm
We made a card
August 6, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
Proabably chocolates
August 6, 2014 @ 11:11 pm
We got chocolates for the teachers this year
August 7, 2014 @ 7:25 am
My daughter gave her teacher a card and some chocolates
August 8, 2014 @ 4:12 pm
WE gave in cookies
August 8, 2014 @ 5:13 pm
I got them a card and bath bombs
August 9, 2014 @ 7:44 am
no gifts no-one does that at our school
August 9, 2014 @ 10:49 am
card
August 9, 2014 @ 11:47 am
No kids, just an overwhelming addiction to chocolate 🙂
But when I was at school gifts for teachers? suicide, you would’ve had the **** beaten out of you for the rest of the year for doing that.
August 9, 2014 @ 4:09 pm
We just ran out of time to get a present for the teacher 🙂
August 9, 2014 @ 4:52 pm
No gift here.
August 9, 2014 @ 8:03 pm
All the parents chipped in some money to buy more resources for the classroom.
August 9, 2014 @ 10:25 pm
chocs
August 10, 2014 @ 5:25 am
Homemade jam
August 10, 2014 @ 7:19 am
We don’t bother now he is in secondary school
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August 10, 2014 @ 9:22 am
we don’t give the teachers gifts
August 10, 2014 @ 9:29 am
We gave his teacher a bottle of wine and the other adults in the class little bottles.
August 10, 2014 @ 10:07 am
No gift
August 10, 2014 @ 10:40 am
We don’t give gifts for the teacher
August 10, 2014 @ 11:00 am
Flowers
August 10, 2014 @ 1:42 pm
Chocolates and flowers 🙂
August 10, 2014 @ 2:00 pm
we give chocolates 😀
August 10, 2014 @ 2:34 pm
card and chocs
August 10, 2014 @ 2:39 pm
She enjoys white water rafting, so we pool together, and buy something to do with her hobby.
August 10, 2014 @ 3:04 pm
Chocolates, fruit and a card.
August 10, 2014 @ 3:14 pm
flowers
August 10, 2014 @ 3:31 pm
Flowers from my garden.
August 10, 2014 @ 4:27 pm
Hand made choc
August 10, 2014 @ 4:38 pm
My son’s at secondary school and has lots of teachers, so nothing and Melody starts school this month!
August 10, 2014 @ 4:42 pm
some flowers or chocolates
August 10, 2014 @ 4:44 pm
I always give chocolates.
August 10, 2014 @ 5:08 pm
No gifts
August 10, 2014 @ 5:34 pm
I just got them some chocolates x
August 10, 2014 @ 6:43 pm
I usually get chocolates
August 10, 2014 @ 7:20 pm
Mine are too young for school yet but as a former teacher I definitely will buy gifts in the future
August 10, 2014 @ 8:03 pm
I don’t usually get a gift
August 10, 2014 @ 8:57 pm
my niece gave her teacher some chocolates
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August 10, 2014 @ 9:48 pm
Yes, we gave a gift card.
August 10, 2014 @ 10:40 pm
i brought them all a mini box of roses chocolates each.
August 11, 2014 @ 12:28 am
We got the teachers some hand made thank you plaques
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August 11, 2014 @ 4:48 am
card and chocolates
August 11, 2014 @ 5:06 am
We don’t do teacher gifts, although we like to contribute classroom supplies.
August 11, 2014 @ 6:34 am
We club together as a class and put a couple of pounds in each and the teacher gets a voucher and chocolates.
August 11, 2014 @ 7:10 am
Just got some chocolates x
August 11, 2014 @ 7:14 am
Chocolates
August 11, 2014 @ 7:17 am
Thorntons Chocolates
August 11, 2014 @ 7:27 am
A nice box of chocolates
August 11, 2014 @ 9:07 am
We did a scented candle with a note saying you light up my life
August 11, 2014 @ 9:37 am
My kids gave their teachers home made decorated biscuits
August 11, 2014 @ 10:18 am
This year we did not.
August 11, 2014 @ 11:15 am
chocs
August 11, 2014 @ 11:16 am
We made biscotti cos they last a good while so don’t have to be eaten within a few days. I always think teachers end up with too many home made cakes & biscuits or flowers etc that are all gone week 1 and so have nothing for week 2 of the holidays!
August 11, 2014 @ 11:48 am
We weren’t going to, although after reading all these competitions regarding this, I think we might have to change our stance!
August 11, 2014 @ 11:56 am
Gift vouchers
August 11, 2014 @ 3:38 pm
chocs
August 11, 2014 @ 4:09 pm
I don’t have children but I’ve never gifted to teachers ever before.
August 11, 2014 @ 5:12 pm
My son is leaving nursery where he has been for four years to start school so we will be getting something that all the staff there can share as they have all played a huge roll in making him the wonderful little boy he is today.
August 11, 2014 @ 6:48 pm
I don’t have children but am a trainee teacher and at the end of my placement was given wine, a box of chocolates and a lovely card signed by the whole class.
August 11, 2014 @ 8:30 pm
I don’t have children. We didn’t give presents when we were at school … just a thank you card x
August 11, 2014 @ 8:38 pm
fruit parcel
August 11, 2014 @ 9:13 pm
Stopped doing this when kids left primary school. Too many teachers as they get older.
August 11, 2014 @ 9:30 pm
just chocolates