Kindergarten teachers are often called second mothers. A person who daily gives strength and puts his soul into the development of children, I sincerely want to thank him 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 come in handy. But such a present is not at all original, it does not carry such warmth as a hand-made gift. And if pupils are also involved in the manufacturing process, then an unusual memorable souvenir will turn out. What kind of gift can you make to the teacher yourself? Share interesting ideas with readers.
When is it appropriate to give gifts to a caregiver?
A handmade gift will always be appropriate. Even on an ordinary weekday, you can please, surprise and cheer up thanks to a small and inexpensivesouvenir. When is a presentation simply indispensable? It is worth presenting 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:
- reason;
- affordable budget;
- caregiver's interests, age, family circumstances.
Musical Surprise
By organizing parents and children, together you can prepare an unusual musical surprise for the teacher. For example, compose an author's song about a teacher, learn a dance number, put on a mini-performance with the participation of children.
If the holiday is planned to be held in a music or sports hall, you need to take care of the design of the room in advance, inviting colleagues of the educator, former pupils (who can also take part in the concert) to the event.
And if at the same time the action is also recorded on video, processed with the help of special programs (add photos of the teacher, memorable moments from the life of the group, audio recordings, artistically arrange 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 record together with the matured students. This will undoubtedly be an original and memorable gift for a teacher from children!
Scrapbook photo album
An equally unusual gift will be a self-made photo album. Today, there are many different techniqueshand-made, which can be used to create such a surprise.
Interesting in design, but easy to manufacture is such a technique for creating a photo album with your own hands, like scrapbooking. It includes a variety of types of decoration. Such a gift to the educator with your own hands can be made from fabrics of various textures, leather, sequins, beads. Also, unusual materials are used in the process of work: wire, coins, plaster figurines, bright large buttons and more.
Such a photo album often has an original shape and design. For example, it can be designed as a jewelry box, an accordion postcard (liporello) or a photo collage. They make an album using the scrapbooking technique and in electronic format. To do this, use graphic editors, for example, "Photomix" or "Photocollage". You can view such a "gift" as a slide show.
A photo album made using the scrapbooking technique is not only a collection of photographs, but also various memorabilia, comments, and objects. You can present such a gift to the teacher for a birthday or graduation in kindergarten.
Video album
With the help of various programs for processing video files (for example, "Video Editing" or "Video Editor"), you can create a memorable original gift for the teacher on Preschool Day, Birthday or Graduation.
To make such a surprise, you will need video and photographic material, audio recordings and skills in using graphic editors, as well as the author's imaginationproject and a certain amount of free time.
How to get started? In order to create such an original gift to the teacher, you must first prepare the material: photographs in electronic format, video, necessary audio recordings, templates. To make a video album for a kindergarten teacher, for example, videos of matinees 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 video fragment. Additionally, the material can be accompanied by text, for example, holiday wishes. Such a video album is a great gift for a kindergarten teacher at graduation.
Candy Bouquet
You can hardly surprise anyone with an ordinary bouquet of flowers. But a bouquet of sweets is original, beautiful, and even delicious!
In order to make a gift to the teacher from sweets, you will need wire, corrugated paper, glue, various decorative ornaments and, of course, the sweets themselves. There are different techniques for making such a presentation. Below we offer the easiest way to create a delicious gift.
How to make a candy bouquet?
The bouquet presented in the photo is not difficult to build. For this you need:
- Cut the wire and make a flower stem.
- Wrap the resulting "leg" with foil or corrugated paper, leaving a recess for the candy.
- Wrap each candy in foil.
- Stir the sweetness on the leg.
- Allpack the resulting products in paper for flowers in the form of a bouquet.
- Decorate the composition with decorative elements. Here is a delicious gift for the teacher!
A photo of a bouquet of sweets as an example is presented above.
Baking
Delicious homemade cakes are always associated with warmth, care and comfort. Such a gift cannot leave anyone indifferent. What can be cooked? There are many options, but we will list the most common:
- muffins;
- chocolate fondant;
- gingerbread cookies or gingerbread;
- homemade sweets.
These desserts can be decorated with different types of icing and sprinkles. 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 arrange sweets. Ordinary food packaging can be transformed with interesting decorating techniques such as quilling, decoupage, origami, collage and more.
Cooked with soul, homemade cakes are a wonderful birthday gift for a teacher!
Recipe in the bank
Another unusual way of packaging pastries borrowed from the French tradition of sharing with neighbors the ingredients needed to make a dessert before the Christmas holidays. But do not carry the same products in the package? Caring housewives came up with the idea of putting the necessary components ina transparent tall jar with a lid. Decorating it simply and attaching a postcard with a recipe, you can safely give such a non-standard present, for example, for the New Year holidays or March 8.
"Cake" from stationery
Various office supplies are often given on professional holidays. Is it possible to surprise with such a present? It turns out it's easy! With a little imagination, ordinary notebooks, pens and glue will turn into an original gift for a teacher on Preschool Day or Knowledge Day.
What do you need to work? You will need 3 round boxes of various diameters (you can also make them yourself from cardboard) and a stationery set directly. On the outer wall of the box, the first “layer” of the cake, for example, from pens, is fixed with a tape. For the second level, you will need a slightly smaller package. 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 not customary to give strangers personal care products. But handmade soap, made with high quality 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, a teacher is, first of all, a woman who, of course, takes care of her appearance. Therefore, such a gift, presented, say, on a birthday, would be quite appropriate.
How to make:
- Melt baby soap without additives in a water bath,after rubbing it on a grater. You can not bring the mixture to a boil - then after drying the finished product will simply crumble.
- After removing the container from the stove, add various ingredients to improve the quality and type of soap: honey, liquid vitamin E, ground oatmeal or coffee, aroma oils, food coloring. But remember that with an excess of additives, the finished product may not harden. And with essential oils in general, you need to be careful: just a few drops, no more!
- From industrial glycerin, cut out decorations with a knife: stars, flowers, etc.
- The bottom of the mold (this can be a sandbox for children, baking dishes, lids, plastic containers) grease with liquid petroleum jelly, then lay out decorations from glycerin soap. Top with liquid soap mass.
- Leave the soap to dry for 2-3 days in a dry, warm place. A fragrant natural gift for a teacher (it’s not so difficult to make it with your own hands, isn’t it?) is ready!
Organizer
A useful and practical present for a 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 an organizer out of fabric. And it will look no less original. In eastern countries, for example, workplace organizers, which are made precisely fromvarious fabrics and materials for decoration. What is such a product? These are just pockets of various sizes, which are placed on the base canvas.
It is important to consider the design of crafts: 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 decorations is rarely justified. In addition, such an elaborate thing, as a rule, will not be in harmony with the overall interior of the room.
It turns out that it is not difficult to come up with an original gift for a teacher. All you need is a little imagination, time and desire!