christmas present ideas for my excellent child minder

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Please help. My child minder is fab.DS loves it there, she is a pleasure to know and is everything i would want in a cm.
I therefore want to get her something to show our appreiciation.
I was thinking either pampering vouchers, or vouchers for nice meal out for her and her dp?
I am open to suggestions though. x

What about a box of popcorn with a cinema voucher attached.

there is another thread here mumsnet.com/Talk/childminders_nannies_au_pairs_etc/657999-Christmas-ettiquete that might help too.

my CM has looked after DS1 and then DS2 one day a week for the last 3 years. she has ALWAYS given them a small birthday present, and christmas present, and makes something with them for easter and for me for mother's day!!! is that normal????!!! it is so lovely.

so, each christmas we give her a bottle of champagne and theatre tokens as she is mad on going to plays. does that seem appropriate/sufficient, do you think?! she has always sent a nice thank-you letter but it's always hard to tell!

i once put a fiver in a xmas card to our postman but he never mentioned it does anyone give their nice, regular postie a gift??!

'my CM has looked after DS1 and then DS2 one day a week for the last 3 years. she has ALWAYS given them a small birthday present, and christmas present, and makes something with them for easter and for me for mother's day!!! is that normal????!!! it is so lovely.'

Yes, doing all these things for my mindees is usual practice for me

I always fill my window cleaner's bucket with clean warm water. Sounds insignificant,but he is always really grateful. I also offer him a drink. The children help him to clean our downstairs windows and I photograph this and put it in my 'What it's like for a child here' setting file. This is a general file, without observations, where I put pictures with captions to give an overview of my service. I use this file to show prospective parents and ofsted. I also give him a bottle of wine on his last visit before Christmas.

My favourite christmas present from parents are vouchers, I love to shop in the sales.

i always wonder about giving store vouchers. i would be happy to receive them but DH thinks it's too much like giving cash and might be offensive and patronising.

any thoughts?!

before i ahve kind of combined a present with vouchers so i would buy a nice bag from paperchase and some next vouchers because i knew she used to shop there a lot

not sure what to get this year ( new cm because we moved) but will also get something for her dd