Teachers present?

[FortyFacedFuckers]

I need ideas for a teachers present for the below people?

One female mid 20's not married, no children
One male early 30's married, young kid, baby on the way.

Any ideas? Will spend around £10

I usually go down the candle route but not sure the man would appreciate that.

I've ordered sistema soup mugs for teacher's presents, which are basically big plastic mugs with a vented lid that can go in the microwave. I figure that they might like to take soup/etc into work and heat it up (microwave works, cooker doesn't in the staff room!). Will supplement with a pack of the cute animal post its and decorate the parcel with a little home made decoration.

One of the reasons for doing this is that they have stopped parents going into school at infant school here, so with a clumsy ds I don't want to send in something that could break and be dangerous! And I just tend to give the same thing to the teachers and ta's. Plus a big tin of quality street to the head and her team in the office.

Have previously given bottle of dessert wine that goes well with christmas pudding to teachers - tis still booze but something a bit different that will get used (or passed on) rather than being just another bottle of wine (and the staff in question were pretty much all quite into food / foodie stuff so I was reasonably confident they would like it rather than think what the heck about it).

Other present that can go down well is a nice neat umbrella. Have previously had fab ones from TKMaxx that cost a fiver instead of more than double that, the sort of thing that you can quite happily have more than one of (keep one in the car, one in the cupboard, one at school etc) and again -unbreakable if a child has to take it in!

Oh and somebody on another thread recently was talking about a book written by Michael Gove - 'Everything I know about Education' or something along those lines.

Inside was a blank notebook

I suspect you have to know the teacher pretty well to buy something like that though!

I always make Christmas decorations for teachers, TAs , secretary, head and cook. I have managed to do something different each year and this is the last as dd now in year 6. Little owls this year. Everyone has always seemed pleased and I have enjoyed doing them.

DS chose a Christmas decoration for each of his teachers last year - little clip on birds with feathers.

I have wrapped an old box in nice paper & filled it with teabags, coffee bags, biscuits, chocs, mini cakes/ mince pies and hot chocs for the staff room. My ds has 6 teaching staff & they have a kitchenette attached to the classroom so his teachers would all benefit.

I'm going to get a slab of mince pies from costco for each class to share in the staff room. I may also make soap reindeer like last yr.

ImNotReallyHere I think I got a bag of green buttons off ebay. Button christmas tree Finished decoration looked like that one. My girls found them easy to do. We then made cupcakes and gave each teacher a cupcake in a little box with decoration attached.

Schilke, those are gorgeous, well done.

Raisah as a TA I can safely say that would be an excellent idea, a tin of biscuits/cakes/treats would not last very long in our staff room!

Especially, if given a couple of weeks before the end of term

zipzap I love that book, it was the most hilarious book I've seen for a long time - the head at DS's school showed it me

Those sistema mugs are great, lovely practical present in my opinion (I have two of them)

Schilke - those decorations ate lovely. Did you just get buttons from John Lewis (only place locally I can think of to get buttons) or is there a cheaper way/place to get them for something like this if I wanted say to make 10 decorations?

octopus glad I'm not the only one one that thinks they will be useful - I half wondered if they would think another bloody mug and it's a boring plastic one!

zipzap I got a bag of green buttons from ebay I think. I go on pinterest and search for christmas crafts - there are lots of great ideas on it.

I never do wine ever since I read on mumsnet a few years ago that teachers loved wine. I bought it for a couple of years until I found out that the two teachers in question didn't actually drink I now buy a tin of biscuits /chocs for staff room and a card and Xmas decoration from dd to her year 3 teacher. Older kids don't so anything.