With the approach of the New Year holidays, many begin to look for gifts to relatives and friends. This fate does not pass and the parent committees of kindergartens. Moreover, gifts will need to be chosen not only for all children, but for teachers and the head, and grabbing the first one that comes to hand is not the best option. It is worthwhile to think over the budget in advance and decide what to give. So, which gift in kindergarten for the New Year is better to choose? So that both children and adults are satisfied.
General rules for choosing gifts
First of all, it is necessary to lay a budget and already proceed from the amount collected. Do not forget also that you want to please children, not educators. Therefore, most of the funds should be spent on them, and not on gifts for the New Year to kindergarten teachers.
When buying presents, be guided by the tastes of the kids, not yours. A gift for the New Year to children in kindergarten should be, first of all, interesting to them. What adults like, as a rule, does not make a child happy.
Consider giving presents yourself. Invite animators, Santa Claus or change into New Year's costumes of fairy-tale characters themselves. Children most of all from the holidays are waiting for this one because of the magical sensation of a fairy tale. Do not disappoint kids. A bright and colorful performance will be remembered better than the most expensive gift for the New Year's kindergarten.
Gift - “dream”: to be or not to be
One of the parents may want to give the child what he has been asking for a long time, and not to buy any “nonsense”. This is wonderful, but does not fit into the big picture: a holiday is arranged for all the children, and they will be offended if their gifts are worse or less. Therefore, it is better to save the "dream" for home celebrations.
Is it worth giving different
A surprise taken out of the bag of Santa Claus can be more upsetting than happy if it is not the same as Vasya or Katya, and cause tears and quarrels. Because your “look how beautiful” is not at all like someone else who seems better. It is better to buy the same gifts with slight differences or to divide them into the categories “for boys” and “for girls”. But in general, they should be similar.
What to give to the smallest
Gift ideas in the kindergarten for the New Year do not give much room for imagination, especially when it comes to nursery. How can you please the crumbs? Of course, with toys. But it is worth considering that not everyone will do.
Pay attention to the waterproof books and the torn books. They are bright, with colorful drawings and well-known characters. Moreover, they are difficult to spoil.
What New Year's gift for children in kindergarten (nursery) can you choose? Kids will love soft talking toys, various pyramids, large cubes or puzzle cubes. A good option as gifts will be musical toys. For example, a variety of horns and xylophones. Most babies love these kinds of things and can for a long time with delight in blowing or knocking on the keys with a hammer.
Pay attention to the quality of toys, purchase them from reliable suppliers. Avoid toys with small parts and sharp edges.
What to give to kids from the middle group
It’s a little easier to choose a gift for the New Year’s kindergarten for 4-5 year old children. At this age, children begin to explore the world and they are interested in literally everything.
Little fidgets will appreciate the “smart” gifts - toys that can be disassembled, assembled, laid out, turn on and off. In addition, it will be useful: fine motor skills will develop. As an example: puzzles with a small number of parts, Lego constructors.
In addition, gifts can be either “boyish” or “girlish”. Based on this, what to give to the kindergarten for the New Year? Girls will be delighted with beautiful dolls, and boys with toy cars. You can give a flying fairy, and then the walking minion to the boys. Or choose your favorite cartoon characters: ponies, robots, superheroes (spider-man, batman and others).
Always an appropriate and win-win option - coloring and a set of colored pencils or felt-tip pens.
Preparatory gifts
A gift for the New Year kindergarten for children of the preparatory group can be both entertaining and useful. The latter include books, kits for creativity. If you will give books, choose the same, with a large font and vivid illustrations. It can be children's encyclopedias, where in a simple and intelligible language they talk about animals or city-countries. A good gift will be collections of fairy tales from around the world.
As a gift, do-it-yourself engravings, sets of dough for modeling or unusual plasticine are suitable. You can purchase sets of ceramic dishes (plate and cup), which will need to be painted independently with paints.
Entertaining gifts are, of course, different types of toys. Girls will be delighted with dolls, a set of dishes or a doctor, boys with repair tools, transformers. Instead of traditional packages, gifts can be put in bright backpacks in the form of animals.
Sweet gifts: to give or not to give
Sweets are a traditional New Year's gift , and not only in kindergarten. However, some parents are categorically against, referring to diathesis and health damage of sugar. So is it worth buying them or not? If you buy kilogram sets, then, of course, there will be no benefit. However, now many confectionery factories produce small packages of New Year's goodies in a bright thematic design. Any child will be delighted with such a set of "Kinder" or "Barney Bears" more than a book. Therefore, it makes sense to present a sweet New Year gift to children in kindergarten. But to be limited to a small size, and to attach a toy or something else (a book, coloring, puzzle) to it.
Whether to congratulate the educators
Each group and kindergarten has its own traditions. But, as a rule, teachers, assistants, nannies, and a music worker are usually congratulated on the upcoming holidays. Then the logical question arises as to what gifts to give to the kindergarten teachers for the New Year. Many may offer to present money in an envelope. But it’s better to immediately reject such an option: firstly, it is unethical and can offend the teacher, and secondly, you can’t put too little - “inconvenient”, a lot too. And not all parents will agree to donate money to the "salary increase."
Nannies can be presented simply by a box of chocolates. Carers - a chocolate set and a good package of tea or coffee. Tea presents with symbols of the coming year, an original set of spices, a bottle of decent champagne or liquor in a gift box, inexpensive fleece blankets are well accepted as a gift. What else can you give teachers in kindergarten for the New Year yet?
On the eve of the holidays, many will be delighted with the so-called grocery basket, especially if it is beautifully decorated. To do this, you need a small plastic basket, a nice towel, wrapping film and a bow for decoration. The basket is filled to your taste, as a rule, it is a bottle of champagne or wine, a box of chocolates, a jar of caviar or pineapple.
Now it has become popular to give gift cards. It’s quick and convenient: you don’t have to figure out what to buy and pack, and the teacher will go for the certificate and get what he wants. Cards can be both perfumery and cosmetic chains (Letual, Rive Gauche), and supermarkets such as O'key.
In addition to edible presentations and certificates, you can choose an original gift in a kindergarten for the New Year. Purely symbolic, but memorable and unusual. For example, buy sets of New Year’s balls “paint yourself” in advance and give each child a signature. Or order a desk calendar at the printing house with photos of children for each month of the year.
Choose a gift for the head
If presentations for educators are more or less clear, then which gift to choose from the head of the kindergarten for the New Year? The budget of the parent committee is not rubber, and no one else wants to donate money.
You can go the path of least resistance and give the same grocery basket. Or fruit instead (champagne, tangerines, apples, a sprig of grapes and pineapple). Such a gift will never be superfluous.
If there is no desire to give fruit products, you can purchase a high-quality pen and organizer, a good stationery set on a table in your office or a houseplant in a pot.