The tradition of congratulating teachers on their professional holiday has been around for a long time. And each time, the students and their parents face the question of what to present. Flowers and sweets are considered by many to be commonplace and unoriginal, some prefer to make gifts by their own hands for Teacherās Day, most for a long time rack their brains over this problem. The article discusses various types of gifts, which will certainly help to make a faster decision.
What to give a teacher: personal or collective gift
Personal gifts are usually presented to the most beloved teachers or teachers. An expensive present from one student, parent or student can be interpreted as a hidden bribe and is likely to be returned.
As a collective gift but not a personal one, a beautiful card and a small bouquet or a small cute souvenir, as well as handmade gifts for Teacher's Day, will be better. You can offer an option with a sweet gift, it can be a box of chocolates or a fashionable bouquet of chocolates.
The main thing should be not so much a gift as attention. Even more important is that attention should be sincere, sincere. In this case, any gift will bring joy to the teacher.
For teachers' celebrations, collective gifts are usually presented to class leaders or group curators, favorite teachers or school principals. A gift purchased with a clasp can be expensive, and these gifts are much more readily accepted. And again, a collective postcard will be a good addition to the present.
Creative gifts
The handmade gifts for the Teacherās Day look very creative. In this case, the attention and time spent on work is greatly appreciated. Such presentations please, touch and bring sincere pleasure. Moreover, on the Internet you can find a lot of ideas on this topic.
One of these ideas may be the following. For its implementation requires preparation in advance. A class teacher is photographed in different situations, and then a photo collage is made in a graphics editor. Then you can order prints in large format and paste into a beautiful frame. Such a gift will become an undoubted favorite.
Junior students can decorate flower pots under the guidance of their parents. Such items at school are usually quite varied, brought by different people, so there is a chance to make common artistic decisions from them. They can be decorated with drawings, mosaics, appliquƩs or other techniques. This will especially appeal to the teacher if the themes of the compositions coincide with the subjects of the taught subject.
What to give to the teacher of primary classes
On behalf of the whole class, the first teacher can be given a cheap watch in the form of a photo frame with the inscription āBest Teacherā, a gift set of pens, which is useful for checking notebooks.
Also, a small box shaped like a book or a stylish book holder, an original bookmark with rhinestones or beautiful embroidery, a USB flash drive with an engraving of the teacherās name, a table lamp or an original vase for bouquets will look good as a congratulation.
A gift for a long memory will be the image of a teacher at the blackboard or at the table, drawn from her photograph on canvas.
A symbolic inexpensive gift for a primary school teacher can be a mug with a congratulation, a notebook with a personalized photo cover, etc.
It is appropriate to give gifts that contribute to relaxation during a hard day's work, such as miniature rock gardens, frames with sprinkling colored sand or aroma lapma in the form of original figures.
What to present to the class teacher
The class teacher, especially in elementary school, is often called the second mother. He spends almost as much time with the kids as the real parents. Teachers spend a significant part of their lives in the school, so gifts that can be used at work are quite appropriate.
A great gift for the class teacher is the large-sized desk-top calendar for next year, which will be decorated with class photos and photo stories of school life.
A geography teacher (concurrently with a class teacher) can be presented with a large colorful globe or a 3D voluminous map; an exotic plant in a pot or a flower gift encyclopedia will be suitable for a biology teacher. A fizruk will be pleasantly surprised by such a gift as a ball with a collective inscription or an autograph of a famous athlete, and a drawing teacher may well please a gift edition with reproductions of famous paintings.
Also, you can present a telescopic or laser pointer to your favorite teacher, which will always remind you of your favorite students.
What to present to the principal
The school principal is also a teacher, so on this day he also cannot be deprived of a gift.
What gift to give the teacher? On the day of the teacher, the director can be presented with a useful present, something necessary for work or an office. This can be a variety of types of wall clocks, paintings, gift stationery desktop devices, a stylish key holder, an original holder for business cards, ornately decorated diary.
If the director loves coffee and allows collective financial opportunities, then you can buy a coffee maker as a gift - it will contribute to relaxation.
Even better, if the director is fond of something, in this case the question does not arise at all about how to give a gift to a male teacher. On the teacherās day, in this case, it is allowed to give him something that can replenish the collection of something or make it possible to realize his hobby: original or unique chess or checkers, a tourist tent, a kit for collecting ships or aircraft models, souvenir weapons, picnic or leisure equipment .
And finally, a practically win-win gift - a beautifully designed book with ancient wise sayings, poems, etc.
Unsuccessful collective gift to the teacher
The list of unsuccessful presentations to teachers consists of the following things:
- Money. Such a gift is vulgar and unethical.
- Tights, underwear and more. Only close people can present such things. These are the rules of etiquette.
- Ordinary vases, dishes. These are banal and uninteresting gifts. Decorative items or decorated gifts with your own hands for Teacher's Day with its symbols will look better.
- Cosmetics, perfumes, deodorants. As a rule, for such a gift you need to have knowledge about the preferences of the teacher.
- Items for the shower. These things can be perceived as a hint of uncleanliness, so they are not given to unfamiliar people.
- Jewelry. Expensive gifts are interpreted as a bribe and create an awkward situation. It is better to present a watch.
- Smoking accessories, cigar sets and alcoholic drinks. This is against etiquette.
A good general gift for the teacher
To answer the question of what kind of gift you can make yourself, we will offer the following ideas:
- Original composition of flowers. These can be ready-made purchased bouquets, and it is better if each student brings one flower, and a huge bouquet is formed at the teacher.
- Mobile or desktop organizer, expensive pen.
- A gift for an interior class or home. It can be a table lamp, a wall decoration or a themed clock, a cool corner, an ergonomic chair.
- Computer gadgets and accessories. Now these are fashionable gifts, and they will delight every teacher: flash drives, fragrances, keyboards, laptop bags and more.
- Gifts for Teacher's Day from sweets. These can be bouquets or professionally assembled compositions.
- Gifts according to interests. Each person has hobbies, and he is happy to receive the appropriate gifts. Good ideas are also gifts related to the taught subject. It can be embroidery kits, an original globe, a collection of foreign authors in the original language, baking dishes and a large recipe book, animal figures or sports gadgets.
- For female teachers, household gadgets that make life easier in the kitchen are also suitable as gifts.
Postcard: master class
The best personal gift has always been a self-made craft. What kind of gift can I make with my own hands? Of course, a postcard. It will be appropriate as an additional congratulation to the main gift. A postcard using the quilling technique will look good:
- ordinary white thick cardboard is suitable for the base of the card;
- from strips of green paper in the form of "eyes" it is required to make the right amount of grass elements of different sizes;
- at the next stage, make pink and red stripes (other colors can be used) flower elements in the shape of a ātulipā also of various sizes;
- stick the first row of grass on the base and arrange several flowers on top;
- then - the next series of the same elements, it is important to alternate different-sized forms.
The final stage will be a congratulatory holiday inscription. An original solution will be if each student congratulates with his own hand.