Kindergarten teachers are often called second moms. A person who daily gives his strength and puts his soul into the development of children, sincerely wants to thank for his hard work. Therefore, on the eve of the holidays, the parents of the kids are puzzled by the question of choosing a gift for the teacher. Of course, a bouquet and a box of chocolates will always be welcome. But such a present is not at all original, it does not carry such warmth as a handmade gift. And if pupils are also involved in the manufacturing process, then an unusual memorable souvenir will turn out. What kind of gift can I make for a teacher on my own? Share interesting ideas with readers.
When is it appropriate to give gifts to a teacher?
A handmade gift will always be appropriate. Even on a typical weekday, you can please, surprise and cheer you up thanks to a small and inexpensive souvenir. When is it simply impossible to do without a presentation? It is worth giving a gift to the teacher on the day of the preschool worker, New Year, March 8 and birthday.
What you should pay attention to before choosing a present:
- occasion;
- affordable budget;
- interests of the educator, his age, family circumstances.
Musical surprise
Having organized parents and children, together we can prepare an unusual musical surprise for the educator. For example, to compose an author’s song about a teacher, learn a dance number, put on a mini-performance with children.
If the holiday is planned to be held in a music or sports hall, you need to take care of the decoration of the premises, the invitation to the event of the teacher’s colleagues, former pupils (who can also take part in the concert).
And if at the same time you can also record the action on video, process the material using special programs (add photos of the teacher, memorable moments from the life of the group, audio recordings, artistically design the video), then the memory of such an unusual event will remain for many years. After a few years, it will be very interesting for the teacher to view the recording with matured students. This will undoubtedly be an original and memorable gift for the educator from children!
Scrapbooking photo album
No less unusual gift will be a self-made photo album. Today, there are many different hand-made techniques that can be used to create such a surprise.
Interesting in design, but not difficult to manufacture, is such a technique for creating a photo album with your own hands as scrapbooking. It includes a variety of types of decoration. Such a gift to the teacher with his own hands can be made from fabrics of various textures, leather, sequins, beads. Also, in the process of work, unusual materials are used: wire, coins, gypsum figures, bright large buttons and more.
Such a photo album often has an original shape and design. For example, it can be decorated in the form of a box for jewelry, accordion cards (liporello) or photo collage. They make an album in scrapbooking technique and in electronic format. To do this, use graphic editors, for example, Photomix or Photocollage. You can view such a “gift” in the form of a slide show.
A photo album made using the scrapbooking technique is not only a collection of photographs, but also various memorable notes, comments, and objects. You can present such a gift to the teacher on his birthday or graduation in kindergarten.
Video album
Using various programs for processing video files (for example, “Video Editing” or “Video Editor”), you can create a memorable original gift for the teacher on the day of preschool worker, birthday or graduation.
To make such a surprise, you will need video and photo material, audio recordings and the skills of using graphic editors, as well as the imagination of the author of the project and a certain amount of free time.
How to get started? In order to create such an original gift for the teacher, you must first prepare the material: photos in electronic format, video, the necessary audio recordings, templates. For the production of a video album for a kindergarten teacher, for example, videos of morning performances and holidays, photographs of pupils, their crafts and much more from the life of the children's team in which the hero of the occasion works are suitable. Songs performed by children can be used as a background or a piece of video. Additionally, the material can be accompanied by text, for example, holiday wishes. Such a video album is a great gift for a kindergarten graduate teacher.
Bouquet of sweets
An ordinary bouquet of flowers is unlikely to surprise anyone. But a bouquet of sweets is original, beautiful, and even tasty!
In order to make a gift for the teacher from sweets, you will need wire, corrugated paper, glue, various decorative ornaments and, of course, sweets themselves. There are various techniques for making such a presentation. Below we offer the easiest way to create a delicious gift.
How to make a bouquet of sweets?
The bouquet shown in the photo is not difficult to build. To do this, you must:
- Cut the wire and make a “flower leg”.
- Wrap the resulting “leg” with foil or corrugated paper, leaving a recess for candy.
- Wrap each candy in foil.
- Put the sweetness on the “leg”.
- Pack all the resulting products in flower paper in the form of a bouquet.
- Decorate the composition with decorative elements. So a delicious gift is ready for the teacher!
A photo of a bouquet of sweets as an example is presented above.
Bakery products
Delicious homemade pastries are always associated with warmth, care, comfort. Such a gift cannot leave anyone indifferent. What can you cook? There are many options, but we will list the most common:
- muffins
- chocolate "fondant";
- gingerbread cookies or gingerbread cookies;
- homemade sweets.
These desserts can be decorated using different types of glazes and powders. Recipes for such sweets are quite simple to prepare. Children can also take an active part in making a delicious gift.
It is important to think about how to make sweets. Ordinary food packaging can be transformed using such interesting decorating techniques as quilling, decoupage, origami, collage and others.
Homemade cakes cooked with the soul are a wonderful birthday present for the educator!
Bank Recipe
Another unusual version of baking packaging is borrowed from the French tradition of sharing with neighbors the ingredients necessary for making a dessert before the Christmas holidays. But do not carry the same products in a package? Caring housewives came up with the necessary components in a transparent high jar with a lid. By unpretentiously decorating it and attaching a postcard with a recipe, you can safely give such a non-standard present, for example, on New Year's holidays or on March 8.
Stationery Cake
For professional holidays, various stationery items are often presented. Is it possible to surprise with such a present? It turns out easily! A little imagination - and ordinary notebooks, pens and glue will turn into an original gift for the teacher on the Day of Preschool Worker or Knowledge Day.
What is necessary for work? You will need 3 round boxes of various diameters (they can also be made independently from cardboard) and a stationery set directly. On the outer wall of the box, the first “layer” of the cake, for example, made of handles, is fixed with a tape. For the second level, you need a little less packaging. Notepads are laid out on it. The smallest box is the third layer, which consists, for example, of felt-tip pens. It turns out a practical and memorable gift for the teacher.
Handmade soap
It is usually not customary to give strangers personal care products. But handmade soap, made qualitatively and creatively, can hardly be called simple cosmetics. This is a whole work of art! In addition, it is a natural skin care product. After all, the educator is first and foremost a woman who, undoubtedly, monitors her appearance. Therefore, such a gift, presented, say, for a birthday, would be quite appropriate.
How to make:
- In a water bath, it is necessary to melt the children's soap without additives, after first rubbing it on a grater. You can’t bring the mixture to a boil - then after drying the finished product will simply crumble.
- After removing the container from the stove, we add various ingredients to improve the quality and type of soap: honey, liquid vitamin E, ground oatmeal or coffee, aromatic oils, food colors. But remember that with an excess of additives, the finished product may not freeze. And with essential oils in general, you need to be careful: just a few drops, no more!
- Cut out jewelry from industrial glycerin with a knife: stars, flowers, etc.
- Lubricate the bottom of the mold (it can be a children's sand pudding, baking dish, lids, plastic containers) with liquid petroleum jelly, then put the decorations out of glycerin soap. Top with a liquid soapy substance.
- Leave the soap to dry for 2-3 days in a dry, warm place. A fragrant natural gift for the educator (it is not so difficult to make it with your own hands, is it?) Is ready!
Organizer
A useful and practical present for the teacher will be a self-made organizer for documents and stationery. It is quite difficult to make such a gift from wood or plastic. This requires certain professional skills, as well as special materials and tools.
It’s much easier to make a fabric organizer. And it will look no less original. In eastern countries, for example, the organizers of the workplace, which are made of various fabrics and materials for decoration, are very popular. What is such a product? These are simply pockets of various sizes, which are placed on a canvas base.
It is important to consider the design of the craft: the product should be of practical use. But the aesthetic side is also of great importance. For example, too bright colors can distract or even annoy a person, and an excess of decorative jewelry is rarely justified. In addition, such an elaborate thing, as a rule, will not be in harmony with the general interior of the room.
It turns out that it’s not difficult to come up with an original gift for the teacher. It takes only a little imagination, time and desire!