Next week is Teacher Appreciation week at my kids daycare.
I need easy, cheap ideas - the budget is already blown for this month (pathetic since we're only 4 days in) so I can't afford to buy a bunch of stuff.
I'm going to make homemade muffins for one morning, and have a poem I'll print and frame, but need some other easy ideas and am drawing a complete blank!
My son's preschool had their TA week last week. For his class, we got baskets for each teacher and wrote each child's name on the baskets and then put their thumbprints on them. Then we put apples in them and gave them to the teachers. We just asked for a couple of dollars from each student.
Are you organizing this for your school or just for your own family? As a former teacher, I can tell you that a hand written note telling specifically why you appreciate her as a teacher would be very meaningful. THe schools I worked at usually organized daily "events"-- once they had a spa day where we could sign up to come to to a room they decorated where you could do a foot soak, have your finger nails painted, or sit in one of those mechanical chair massagers. They had nice music playing and gave us lemon water to sip-- it was lovely! I have heard of other schools recruiting volunteers to come wash the teachers' cars in the parking lot during the school day-- I think that sounds really nice, too! Seriously though, if this is just for your family, one lovely note is perfect!
A.
Teacher's love food, so homebaked stuff is great. If you can cook a take & bake casserole for the teacher to take home at the end of the day for dinner, that would be a real treat.
My daughters daycare had theirs this week, I also did not have alot of money so I did a basket, I filled it with muffins I baked, fruit(apples, bananas whatever I had in the fridge), also I bought some candles at walmart think they were only 2.50 each, then I added some bath salts, bubble bath, shower gel, and body spray that I bought a while back but never used. And a card.
Some of the best gifts I received for Teacher Appreciation Week:
$5 gift certificate to Starbucks (this is more than enough $$ for one family to spend, IMO)
a scrapbook page that had face shot pictures of each of my students
one mom organized all the parents to write individual letters/cards of appreciation to me...that was my best gift EVER
