Jen500 Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Our music teachers are music majors at a university. My kids would like to make them cards w/ a small gift. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoVanGogh Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 My standard gift for outside teachers is a nice candy bar (or some sort of chocolate) with a Starbucks gift card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriedClams Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 We went with cash. She's 19, and while it's impersonal - the kids made a nice card and we figured she'd use it. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdie Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 My standard gift for outside teachers is a nice candy bar (or some sort of chocolate) with a Starbucks gift card. Our standard gift is Lindt chocolates with a Target gift card. LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-FL Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 I agree w/either something eatable or $$/gift cards. There's only so many doo-dads one teacher needs. :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertDweller Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 We did a Starbucks gift card this year for dd's teachers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lulubelle Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 My next question is how much are these gift cards? I've got piano, karate, art, cooking, swimming, dance, sport teachers to give something! I think a candy bag is enough? I usually do candy and home made cookies, but making the cookies is so much work and then I worry nobody eats others food! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 A g.c. to a music store? We've got a wonderful music supply store in our town with sheet music, instruments, little doo-dads for the musically inclined. Or a $5 coffee card. :) Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdie Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 My next question is how much are these gift cards? I've got piano, karate, art, cooking, swimming, dance, sport teachers to give something! I think a candy bag is enough? I usually do candy and home made cookies, but making the cookies is so much work and then I worry nobody eats others food! I think a food gift would be very much appreciated. When my dh was an AWANA leader he received food gifts from some of his kids. We ate everything. LOL! I didn't make any holiday gifts for my children's coaches or dance teachers. We usually chip in on a year end gift for them instead. We are giving a $15 gift card to my dd's speech teacher because she did a fantastic job with my daughter. We also gave a little bag of Dove chocolates to my children's hs co-op teachers as a semester end, thank you gifts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamturner Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 For all of our kid's teachers this year we're making Peppermint Bark or Puppy Chow (aka Muddy Buddies on the back of the Rice Chex box). They are simple and quick to make. Then put in a pretty tin and you're done. For our piano teacher, I found a beautiful musical print fleece at Joanns and decided to make her a small no-sew fleece blanket. This is a first for me. Usually I buy everything, but I'm glad I found a more personal and less expensive options since we have a lot of outside teachers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom-ninja. Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 My fil grows poinsettas. So we're giving one to the piano teacher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 My next question is how much are these gift cards? I've got piano, karate, art, cooking, swimming, dance, sport teachers to give something! I think a candy bag is enough? I usually do candy and home made cookies, but making the cookies is so much work and then I worry nobody eats others food! We made cocoa cones. Cute, they cost $5 or so in the store but cost us about 50 cents each to make at home. :) When we had several teachers to buy for the kids gave a handmade card, a handmade gift like a bookmark or ornament, and I bought $5 g.c. for coffee or Ben & Jerry's. At $5 for 6-7 teachers, we were looking at $30-35 total (affordable for us) and we were able to bless the wonderful teachers with something they enjoyed. Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaichiki Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 A violin (or it could be a viola /cello) - shaped bottle of wine from the Russian-food store. If they don't want to drink it, they could pour out the wine: the bottle is still lovely. (It's cheap wine, anyway.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VA6336 Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Since they're attending the University, you could get them a gift card to either the campus coffee shop (might be a Starbucks!) or a gift card to the University bookshop. If they live locally, then a card to the closest music store would be totally appropriate. If you're looking for a "thing" to give, mechanical pencils (music themed, if you can find them at a music store) or books of staff paper. No music major ever had enough staff paper. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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