Thank you small gifts dd goes to rainbows

[Treaclebear]

Hi all,

My daughter goes to Rainbows and there are 3 teenage helpers and 4 adult volunteer leaders. I’d like to give them a small gift to say thank you, nice this time of year. I don't celebrate Xmas, not sure really what is appropriate.

I was thinking of:

• a large tin of biscuits/sweets for them to share,
• or
• small individual gifts around £5 each.

Thank you!

I'm a rainbow and a brownie leader. Either option sounds lovely. We often got large tins to share. We would keep them and enjoy them the next time we had a planning meeting altogether. If you wanted to do individual gifts, sometimes we were given something like a candle each, which was also nice.

Thank you for thinking of the leaders - we obviously dont do it for gifts, but its so nice to be appreciated and it very rarely happens.

It's a lovely idea to give gifts to your daughter's Rainbow leaders. I'm sure whatever you do will be appreciated.
Something you might want to consider is that our leadership team are colleagues rather than friends and don't see each othet apart from.at meetings..We would have to divide up a joint gift on the night.. if someone happened not to be at Rainbows on that evening realistically they may not get their share until. January. Unwrapped sweets or biscuits wouldn't be great after a couple of weeks in the cupboard.
Your leaders may have a different ser up.though..

How about a nice card from your daughter (doesn’t have to be a ‘Christmas’ card if that’s not appropriate to your beliefs / culture) and a £5 Costa gift card each. Most people would appreciate that and it’s enough to get a fancy drink.

We often try to hand make gifts for people like this- things like bead snowflakes/angels, lavender bags for wardrobes etc (VERY slow use of sewing machine with small child in the drivers seat!!). One year we did salt dough decorations which were also really effective. When the leaders tend to be people who are quite crafty themselves, they always look really appreciative that the girls have made the effort to make them something.

Good point

That's a wonderful idea!

Four small gifts would be nice. I like the PP idea of coffee shops card and my teen dd would like Starbucks (or costa) so that’s a great idea. And very kind, as a former rainbow leader I always appreciated a wee home made card too.

My daughter is a teenage helper at Rainbows. She would be delighted with anything even if it was a bag of chocolate coins. A £5 voucher is a good idea as teens seen to love going to coffee shops!

She would also appreciate any kind of picture/card they'd done. She enjoys volunteering with little children and unlike teachers/TAs she's not likely to be swamped by that kind of thing

This is a lovely thing to do. We meet in a cafe to do planning, so wouldn’t be able to bring in biscuits/ chocolates to share whilst doing this. So definitely separate.

I’d suggest a chocolate orange for teenagers and perhaps Lindor or something for adult leaders!

We have done Christmas decorations, metal bookmark with image they'd like and box of maltisers, bath bomb and soap...this year it's fancy fidgets for the teens and glass tree decoration for the grown ups. Job lot of bomb cosmetics bath bombs to split comes in handy, likewise things like the hotel chocolate bundles that can be split.
Maybe go to a garden centre or Christmas Market with your daughter and she can choose a few.

Buy a pack of air-dry clay and some cookie-cutters, your daughter can make personalised Christmas tree decorations very easy to do. Roll the clay out, cut into shapes, poke a hole all the way through so you can tie a piece of ribbon through once they’re set. You can either etch names in to the clay or paint them on afterwards and you can use anything textured as an imprint too, even just something like a leaf.
Hobbycraft or The Works sell clay about £5 a pack.