help with presents for teachers please

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Hi everyone my son and daughter are at different school and both have special needs so I have a lot of presents to get and need something that does not cost loads I love snowman soup idea but another mum told me she's doing that and don't want to copy any is there anything like that but different if you see what I mean? Thank u guys

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• Along similar lines, you could layer the ingredients for some sort of festive cookie in a jar and add a tag with instructions, like a home-made baking mix.
  Home bargains do those clear plastic baubles which open up. You could put a nail varnish and some lipgloss in one. Or half-fill one with confetti and add a note from your child about what a good teacher he/she is.
  Do you use pinterest at all? If you search 'teacher gifts' on there you will have thousands of ideas.
• My son also has special needs, and there are so many teachers and TAs. This year, I have decided to make a hamper of sweet and savoury snacks for the staff room. I bought a tin of biscuits, some bruschetta, cheese straws, etc. I covered a shallow cardboard box with wrapping paper, added the food, and wrapped it in cellophane.
• All good ideas.As a TA the staffroom gift is ace,even a jar of coffee is a winner.Have a look on Pinterest or you tube for bath salts.Cheap,quick and easy.Fill empty jam jars and pretty up the lid.Job done.x
• If you want to get each individual gifts perhaps you consider making salt dough christmas decorations, cheap and fun to make.
  https://www.parentdish.co.uk/fun-and-...ough-homemade/
  or you could consider an oxfam unwrapped gift for a combined present to all the staff
  https://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/oxfam-u...plies-ou9025in
• I got my son's teacher tea light Yankee candles and a holder because we had spoke about them before. I also have a tin of chocs for the staff room. My youngest is still at nursery and her teacher got lush bath bombs and again tins for the staff room.
  I just avoid all the typical teacher gifts of mugs etc emblazoned with 'best teacher'
  I'm no good at baking or anything so that's out too
• My boyfriends a teacher and he receives ALOT OF 'teacher' gifts, such as mugs, pens etc
  He has been given beer in the past, which made me very chuffed!!
  He said anything consumable is a winner... but he would love if parents got him alcohol more! ha
• I'm a classroom assistant, staff room gifts are always appreciated. I know a lot of people don't like the Best Teacher or Best Classroom assistant stuff, but I personally do. Esp. the gifts that are different. Last year I got a CA survival kit!
  I tend to get a lot of soap sets and wine at Christmas and end of year, which personally for me I hate as I don't drink wine, and I have sensitive skin so have to stick to certain brands.
  I have been given lots of Yankee candle candles/holders in the pats for Christmas and I have a lovely little collection now for my fireplace and I think of each child who gave it to me each year
  I also have a lot of handmade stuff from children over the years too, which doesn't cost much and you know has had much thought put into it.
• Pots of gold always go down well
  I changed it last year to bags of gold tho as much easier
  The Ј shop has 20 cellophane bags with a xmas design an ribbon
  You can adapt the contents an quantity depending who you are giving too
  Teachers present is a big bag of gold, all gold wrapped sweets a few of each, fererro's, pralines, choc Santa's, Cadbury Bells, Lindt
  Then topped up with weathers originals, toffee an fudge sweets
  2 x Ј1 xmas scratch cards
  I also have a few small Yankee candles that I'll wrap in cellophane with ribbon
  2 Teaching assistants bags of gold will have one of each of the "good sweets" then add in the other sweets as above
  Then Ј1 scratch card
  All tied up with rhyme on the tag an lots of gold ribbon
  It doesn't have to be filled all with sweets, one year I put in gold keyring and some Gold tealights
• I got my inspiration from pintrest this year, I have two children and each teacher is getting a mason jar with Xmas socks, nail varnish, body/hand cream and a small lindit bear - wrapped up in cellophane and with a tag that says `for you mistle toes`. Interest have form fab ideas
• Home-baked goodies wrapped up in DIY wrapper and decors are surefire teacher gifts!
• Many teachers would not eat anything homemade from an unknown household, so this could be a waste of your time and money. If you saw the state of some children's lunch boxes, you wouldn't either.
  Also avoid that expensive "Best Teacher" tat. I've got a box of it in the garage. (What else do I do with it?)
  Chocolate/ biscuits, wine or a plant (not flowers; if the teacher's going away over the holiday, flowers will be dead by the time they return) are the easiest. The bag of gold sounds lovely. Not extravagant, but some thought and participation from the child. Sweets or biscuits for the staffroom or the class team are good, especially if a lot of staff work with your child or you don't know who everyone is. Attach a card or tag to the box so everyone knows who it's from.
  Cards with a personal message or something written or made by the child are most appreciated. Teachers spend a lot of time hearing how useless they are from parents, school leaders and the media, so even just a thank you makes such a difference.
• We dont anymore since we got all the notes home saying dont do it!
• As a teacher, the items that I treasure the most are the cards, notes, emails and letters from my students and their parents!
  I teach secondary age (so teenagers!). Over the years I've had a book token, chocolates, wine (even though I'm teetotal), biscuits, nice stationery, toiletries, an owl picture frame with a Maths formula in it! but it's the words that I keep and even stick into a scrapbook to give me a boost after a tough day.
  Good luck with whatever you choose.