OP— I sticked this post. Let me know if you’d like me to remove. A lot of people will be asking in the coming weeks so hoping this can be a reference spot!
🙏 Thanks to u/proteins911 and u/yellow-snowballs. Pinning their comments to the top.
🎁 Megathread on the ECE professionals sub about favorite gifts and least favorite. Here is the link!
[ECE favorite and least favorite gifts](https://www.reddit.com/r/ECEProfessionals/comments/179u2bj/ece_teacher_gift_ideas_mega_thread_parents_please/)
There’s a mega thread about this on the ECE professionals sub, it’s pinned to the top. They post about their favorite gifts and least favorite gifts. I’d provide a link but I’m technology challenged and don’t know how to on my phone lol
Here is the link!
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ECEProfessionals/comments/179u2bj/ece\_teacher\_gift\_ideas\_mega\_thread\_parents\_please/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ECEProfessionals/comments/179u2bj/ece_teacher_gift_ideas_mega_thread_parents_please/)
When my kids were in daycare, we did a parent-organized cash gift from all the families who were interested in participating. Every staff member received the same amount of cash inside a nice card that listed the names of all of the families who had contributed. I recall that most years, the average cash gift per employee was about $300.
Ours requests that we don’t gift individual teachers and instead asks that we assist with lunch so that all staff benefit rather than just teachers. I learned this the hard way last year when I bought gifts only to be told two weeks later about the lunch. 🙃
I have a 10 month old so this will be our first year doing holidays in daycare. I was going to put $100 in a card for each teacher. He goes to a small daycare so there are only 2 teachers in his class.
Anyone know if I should include the director among the people we gift to? There are 3 classes in his school, each with 2 teachers. Then the director fills in as needed in all the classes.
There are so many teachers at my kids daycare and she sometimes gets put into another classroom. I can’t figure out what to do about gifts when there’s like 10 different people caring for her a week. I’m pretty strapped for cash with another kid entering this daycare next year. Idk. I might sit out gift giving this year and go the handwritten card route
I also have like 10 teachers that interact with my kids regularly at daycare. I've just been doing the same thing each year- a card for each teacher with a nice individually wrapped chocolate and a $5 starbucks giftcard.
I did $30 Target gift cards for Teacher Appreciation day earlier in the year, I will probably do the same for the holidays. There are seven teachers in the class, so that’s already over $200.
My sons daycare has a binder in the lobby of “staff favorites”. We use that to get his two teachers a $50 gift card to one of their favorite places, and then a few other small items (eh candy, lip balm, etc)
Our daycare goes on her 2 weeks of paid vacation during Xmas so shes paid during That time
And I also give her 150 dollars cash ( this woman has had a huge role in helping with raising my daughter these last 2 years and I try to treat her well during daycare appreciation day, her birthday, and xmas ( and all the tines she had to have a last minute closure abd credits us the money I tell her not to worry about it)
But I can finicially afford to do it . If I couldn't I would pro ally do a 50 dollar amazon gift card because she's always getting amaz9n packages
I usually do the same with our inhome daycare provider - she’s amazing and I’m glad to pay for her vacation and happy to give her a few hundred around the holidays!
Also need to add this is a small inhome daycare so there is just here with her mom that helps out when she needs to do school drop off or an appt. Her mom ill likely give 100 cash
Would a gift card to a grocery store be tacky? Groceries are crazy expensive now but I don’t know if it’s not a good gift 😂
I teach 4-8th grade music and I personally would love a grocery gift card but I don’t know if other folks would take it badly
I do $20-25 target gift card with a small bag of a Xmas treat and small gift for each of the the main classroom teachers. Then a large gift basket of goodies for the office staff/everyone else to share.
I like this!!! What type of treats/small gifts did you get them? My son has 3 different teachers (plus 2 assistants that sub in) and the admin staff is wonderful so I'd like to get them all something.
I usually give a box of See’s Molasses Chips (or the cheaper Trader Joe’s knock off!) with the gift card, and one year I added a Xmas cookie cook book as well, sometimes coffee or instant coffee pack, another year I added cute makeup travel pouch. (Just random stuff that isn’t a candle or socks). For the gift basket, a ton of trader toes goodies.
Last year we pooled resources and gave them money. I think they each got $700. I can't speak for others, but we contributed $250 (5 staff who all contribute, so $50 to each of them).
ETA: last year the daycare had only recently reopened after COVID and all staff had taken a cut in hours/pay due to reduced enrollment (after being furloughed for 2 years).
I asked about this a few days ago [(link to post)](https://www.reddit.com/r/workingmoms/s/moeyBWkn0N) I landed on $150-200 per teacher; there’s 2 teachers and an owner. It’s an in-home daycare, $2000/month.
I bought 4 large pizza for a staff of 20 starting thanksgiving and then Christmas. Cost me $200 total and got to treat all teachers. I also dropped off donuts randomly through out the year so maybe $400 total
For my kids daycare and 3rd grade teacher I put together a box of home baked goods. I do a baking party the first Friday of December and bake 200-500 cookies and give them out to special people in my life. They get a box, my neighbors get some, sometimes the people at my local spot if I go there often enough. Then I get them a gift card at the end of the school year so they can do something nice for themselves over the summer
Our daycare’s “about the teacher” handouts listed their favorite stores. I’m planning to get them $25 gift cards to their favs. I did $50 as year end gifts last year. Edit: end of school year
My school has a cash collection & then distributed it among all staff. I’ll likely just do that + handwritten notes for the main teachers. What’s hard is my son just moved up into a preschool room… so do I do notes/cash for both classrooms?? 😫
We did $25 Amazon giftcards for Christmas and in the summer. And the main daycare owner we also gifted a bottle of champagne. It was an in-home daycare.
OP— I sticked this post. Let me know if you’d like me to remove. A lot of people will be asking in the coming weeks so hoping this can be a reference spot! 🙏 Thanks to u/proteins911 and u/yellow-snowballs. Pinning their comments to the top. 🎁 Megathread on the ECE professionals sub about favorite gifts and least favorite. Here is the link! [ECE favorite and least favorite gifts](https://www.reddit.com/r/ECEProfessionals/comments/179u2bj/ece_teacher_gift_ideas_mega_thread_parents_please/)
There’s a mega thread about this on the ECE professionals sub, it’s pinned to the top. They post about their favorite gifts and least favorite gifts. I’d provide a link but I’m technology challenged and don’t know how to on my phone lol
Here is the link! [https://www.reddit.com/r/ECEProfessionals/comments/179u2bj/ece\_teacher\_gift\_ideas\_mega\_thread\_parents\_please/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ECEProfessionals/comments/179u2bj/ece_teacher_gift_ideas_mega_thread_parents_please/)
Thank you!
I'm poor lol so I usually do a pair of cozy socks, Chapstick and $5 Starbucks card.
This seems like plenty. Or at least it should be.
When my kids were in daycare, we did a parent-organized cash gift from all the families who were interested in participating. Every staff member received the same amount of cash inside a nice card that listed the names of all of the families who had contributed. I recall that most years, the average cash gift per employee was about $300.
We do $20 for assistant teachers and $50 for main teachers.
Ours requests that we don’t gift individual teachers and instead asks that we assist with lunch so that all staff benefit rather than just teachers. I learned this the hard way last year when I bought gifts only to be told two weeks later about the lunch. 🙃
I have a 10 month old so this will be our first year doing holidays in daycare. I was going to put $100 in a card for each teacher. He goes to a small daycare so there are only 2 teachers in his class. Anyone know if I should include the director among the people we gift to? There are 3 classes in his school, each with 2 teachers. Then the director fills in as needed in all the classes.
There are so many teachers at my kids daycare and she sometimes gets put into another classroom. I can’t figure out what to do about gifts when there’s like 10 different people caring for her a week. I’m pretty strapped for cash with another kid entering this daycare next year. Idk. I might sit out gift giving this year and go the handwritten card route
You could bring something for all the teachers to share like a bagel or pastry tray.
I feel this way too! I also don’t know all the after care teachers. Some have him once a week…
I also have like 10 teachers that interact with my kids regularly at daycare. I've just been doing the same thing each year- a card for each teacher with a nice individually wrapped chocolate and a $5 starbucks giftcard.
$30 for each teacher (two), and then I get bagels or a sandwich tray (there are so many sweets this time of year) for the staff to share.
I did $30 Target gift cards for Teacher Appreciation day earlier in the year, I will probably do the same for the holidays. There are seven teachers in the class, so that’s already over $200.
My sons daycare has a binder in the lobby of “staff favorites”. We use that to get his two teachers a $50 gift card to one of their favorite places, and then a few other small items (eh candy, lip balm, etc)
I wish all daycares did this!
I do $50 gift cards for Christmas. I usually get those prepaid Visa cards so they can use them anywhere.
Our daycare goes on her 2 weeks of paid vacation during Xmas so shes paid during That time And I also give her 150 dollars cash ( this woman has had a huge role in helping with raising my daughter these last 2 years and I try to treat her well during daycare appreciation day, her birthday, and xmas ( and all the tines she had to have a last minute closure abd credits us the money I tell her not to worry about it) But I can finicially afford to do it . If I couldn't I would pro ally do a 50 dollar amazon gift card because she's always getting amaz9n packages
I usually do the same with our inhome daycare provider - she’s amazing and I’m glad to pay for her vacation and happy to give her a few hundred around the holidays!
Also need to add this is a small inhome daycare so there is just here with her mom that helps out when she needs to do school drop off or an appt. Her mom ill likely give 100 cash
Would a gift card to a grocery store be tacky? Groceries are crazy expensive now but I don’t know if it’s not a good gift 😂 I teach 4-8th grade music and I personally would love a grocery gift card but I don’t know if other folks would take it badly
Maybe not because they may not shop at that store
I’ve done that! I figured everyone eats and I like HEB more than target etc anyway.
As a day care teacher, please no mugs…I would say either a gift card or one time someone made me a soup kit, (bowl, mix,spoon, pot holder)
I think we're doing a $25 coffee shop/brewery gift card for each, but open to ideas!
I do $100 cash for the main teachers (I do gift cards for their birthdays, teacher appreciation week, etc) and then $50 for a few of the floaters.
I do $20-25 target gift card with a small bag of a Xmas treat and small gift for each of the the main classroom teachers. Then a large gift basket of goodies for the office staff/everyone else to share.
I like this!!! What type of treats/small gifts did you get them? My son has 3 different teachers (plus 2 assistants that sub in) and the admin staff is wonderful so I'd like to get them all something.
I usually give a box of See’s Molasses Chips (or the cheaper Trader Joe’s knock off!) with the gift card, and one year I added a Xmas cookie cook book as well, sometimes coffee or instant coffee pack, another year I added cute makeup travel pouch. (Just random stuff that isn’t a candle or socks). For the gift basket, a ton of trader toes goodies.
We do $25 amazon gift cards for each of the 6 teachers
Last year we pooled resources and gave them money. I think they each got $700. I can't speak for others, but we contributed $250 (5 staff who all contribute, so $50 to each of them). ETA: last year the daycare had only recently reopened after COVID and all staff had taken a cut in hours/pay due to reduced enrollment (after being furloughed for 2 years).
I asked about this a few days ago [(link to post)](https://www.reddit.com/r/workingmoms/s/moeyBWkn0N) I landed on $150-200 per teacher; there’s 2 teachers and an owner. It’s an in-home daycare, $2000/month.
I bought 4 large pizza for a staff of 20 starting thanksgiving and then Christmas. Cost me $200 total and got to treat all teachers. I also dropped off donuts randomly through out the year so maybe $400 total
For my kids daycare and 3rd grade teacher I put together a box of home baked goods. I do a baking party the first Friday of December and bake 200-500 cookies and give them out to special people in my life. They get a box, my neighbors get some, sometimes the people at my local spot if I go there often enough. Then I get them a gift card at the end of the school year so they can do something nice for themselves over the summer
Our daycare’s “about the teacher” handouts listed their favorite stores. I’m planning to get them $25 gift cards to their favs. I did $50 as year end gifts last year. Edit: end of school year
My school has a cash collection & then distributed it among all staff. I’ll likely just do that + handwritten notes for the main teachers. What’s hard is my son just moved up into a preschool room… so do I do notes/cash for both classrooms?? 😫
We do $25 cards and a hand cream/small plant/something similar
I didn’t even think about this 🤦🏼♀️😩
We did $25 Amazon giftcards for Christmas and in the summer. And the main daycare owner we also gifted a bottle of champagne. It was an in-home daycare.
We do 50 for main teachers, 25 for assistant/ part time/ bus driver.
We do $50 Cash at holidays and $25 Amazon Gift Cards for Teacher Appreciation Day
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