Nursery gifts

[Prinnny]

DD3 wants to get her nursery teachers a Christmas present. Do you do it? If so what do you get?

I was thinking about a tub of chocs to share at work (I’m a nurse and we love when patients/families do this) plus something individual each, maybe bottle of Prosecco and a Christmas candle, but is this overdone? Any other suggestions?

I work in a nursery, things like boxes of chocolates, individually wrapped packs of biscuits, sweets are always very much appreciated most of us are food motivated!! We have had tea/coffee hampers with those individual hot chocolates/lattes which are v nice as we are outside in all weathers! (especially nice when there's a few vegan ones too!)

As an individual teacher gift one year I did a little cellophane bag with a few celebrations chocolates and a £1 Christmas scratch card. It went down very well! DDs enjoyed making them up too choosing which chocolates for each teacher.

M&S big tin of biscuits for the staff room, some nice tea and coffee if you're pushing the boat out.

Yeah good ideas, I’ll do a big hamper with tea, coffee, juice, chocs and biscuits for the staff room. I like the scratch card idea too, think I’ll get DD to make the teachers individual cards and pop one inside each.

I wouldn't do scratch cards personally; our nursery staff are very diverse and I think there are some religions were scratch cards/gambling are not allowed.

I always used to give multiple boxes of sachets of cappuccino etc as something different, having worked in childcare of years I knew they would be appreciated. Easy to use in the staff room, but nice enough to be enjoyed.

The problem with giving alcohol is not everyone drinks it for various reasons, I don't and it always put me in weird positions of having to explain myself and ask could I swap with somebody etc.

Oh I don’t live in a very diverse area, it’s not a huge nursery I know all the staff, all young women with no aversion to gambling or alcohol (they had a works day out to the races in the summer 😂)

The problem is, you can't please everyone.
Wine - someone may be teetotal or not drink for religious reasons, or be pregnant
Chocolate - someone might be vegan/intolerant
Biscuits - someone might be coeliac
Tea/coffee - some people just don't drink these!

If they don't want a scratch card they can always give it to someone else or just bin it.

I would stay away from candles, I know it's a thing but it's not for everyone.

When DD was at nursery we did chocolate for the staff room (Lindor balls or similar) and a gift card for her key worker. We had New Look for her baby room one (met her key worker there and knew she shopped there), good stationary for another who was in the middle of his degree and always had notebooks around and a Waterstone one for her pre-school teacher who loves to read.

I just get heroes or celebrations. I have a taxi driver and escort, three members of staff at my sons school (sen) and three at my daughters. It feels a bit of a cop out with chocolate but it’s just a small token of my appreciation.