What gift can you give a teacher for the New Year?

Every year in December, millions of parents are tormented by the problem - what to give educators for the New Year? The need for a gift has not been discussed for a long time - how to ignore the people who work as “mothers” for our children from early morning until late at night? Therefore, most parents perceive a good gift for a teacher for the New Year as a tradition, a duty and a sign of respect.

Of course, when purchasing a gift, you need to take into account the personality of the donee: age, hobbies, marital status - in a word, everything you know about her. Then your present will become truly necessary and valuable for the recipient, causing a lot of positive emotions.

New Year is a holiday of magic, fairy tales, miracles. That is why the present should also be with elements of surprise, cause joy and delight.

So, what can you give to the teachers (there are usually two of them) as a New Year's present?

Delicious gifts come to mind first.

• Fruit or berry bouquet.
• A bouquet of sweets or a combined version with fruits.
• A basket with New Year's teas (ginger, citrus, apple-cinnamon) in the appropriate festive design.
• A similar coffee basket. The varieties "Belgian Chocolate", "Irish Baileys" and others are well suited.
• A set that includes jams, marmalade, preserves. Such sets can be purchased ready-made, or you can assemble yourself in a beautiful basket or box.
• Chocolate set.
• A custom-made cake or a box with your favorite cakes / cupcakes. Now there are a lot of home-based pastry shops that make beautiful and delicious sweet gifts. A box with trifles or Pavlova cakes, adored by the teacher, will be accepted with gratitude.
• A grocery basket that includes traditional New Year's delicacies - red and black caviar, red fish, good cheese and other products.

As for inedible presents, you can give:

• blanket in New Year's design;
• a beautiful tea pair made of porcelain or ceramics;
• bright salad bowls;
• teapot;
• a set of crystal glasses (better for the New Year's drink itself - champagne);
• tablecloths.

When purchasing such a gift, choose what you yourself would be happy to use. A present bought on the run, at a sale from the cheapest, from low-quality material will say a lot about the donor.

No one forbids, in addition to the general gift from the parents, giving the teacher something personally from yourself, if you consider it necessary. If you absolutely do not have the time to search for something truly worthy, a certificate can become a universal gift. He will give the teacher the opportunity to choose the right thing on her own.

Currently, all large (and even not very large) chain stores provide an opportunity to purchase a certificate at different prices - from 500 to 10,000 rubles. This can be a dish center, a perfumery and cosmetic network, a bag or accessory store, a jewelry salon, a chain of stores of electrical goods and household appliances, home textiles. If you know that the teacher is an avid knitter, give her a certificate at the store of good knitting threads, if she loves to cook, pay for a cooking master class.

A lover of creative activities (drawing, sewing dolls, pottery) will love a visit to a master class on the relevant topic, and a ballet fan - tickets to the premiere. If your teacher is a fan of healthy lifestyle, a subscription or a master class in yoga or another type of fitness that interests her will delight her much more than a basket of sweets.

As for gifts "from the group" and for her, of course, they are always gladly accepted. A rare kindergarten is equipped with office equipment or stationery so that it never needs anything. Educators are forced to print and draw a lot, so a gift from the field of office equipment or stationery will be appropriate. It can be:

• flash drives with a lot of memory;
• external hard drive;
• memory card;
• a printer, scanner, copier or multifunctional device that combines all three functions;
• various kinds of office.

But these are gifts, rather, for the kindergarten, and not for the teacher. A personal electronics gift might look like:

• eBook;
• thermo mug;
• digital photo frame;
• illuminated aquarium;
• a beautiful night light or table lamp;
• mini fountain;
• backlit painting.

A gift idea like a book is only appropriate when you know for sure that you are giving what your caregiver dreams of. Let's say she collects editions of "Alice in Wonderland" or "Little Red Riding Hood" and you present to her the copy she doesn't have yet. Or she has a passion for baking and you hand over a beautiful glossy edition of cake and cupcake recipes. Gift editions of the Bible, the Koran or other theological books are undesirable, because faith is too personal. It is worth refraining from presenting icons and images of saints for the same reasons.

If the parents in your group are creative natures and want to give the teacher or the manager something truly special, then, of course, an individual approach is needed. Any printing house or photo workshop will make according to your order wall calendar for the next year with a photo of children or a desk-top version, where the "faces" of each month will be one or two children, depending on how many children are in the group.

The same category of gifts includes wall clock with a photo print of the group. Portrait on canvas, executed by a professional photography artist, will be a surprise for the teacher or manager.

An interesting gift will be a set of Christmas balls or wooden toys painted by children. If one of the parents has the time and has creative abilities, a book made using the scrapbooking technique, reflecting the most interesting events of the year, will be an excellent present. You can paste a photo there, make appropriate inscriptions and much more. If there are no such creative personalities among the parents, you can do it in the same style. a photo book with photographs of memorable moments from the life of the group.

An original gift will be a book about a person, in this case - about a teacher or manager... There are publishers that come up with a story about a person (most often this is a New Year's fairy tale) on the basis of a detailed questionnaire that the donor fills out and photographs of the donee. The questionnaire lists both the hobbies of the person about whom the story is being written and its features - characteristic expressions, significant events, the names of loved ones, and then the fairy tale turns out to be truly personal. Few people refuse to receive a book about themselves as a gift, and even so beautifully designed!

When planning a gift for the teacher or the head of the kindergarten, one should not forget that they are officials, so it is advisable not to cross the line of admissibility. Therefore, we will separately highlight the category of gifts that should not be given.

• Even though the champagne glasses - a suitable gift, the drink itself should not be given, like any other alcohol.
• Perfumes of any kind - cologne, eau de toilette, perfume. These are things that each person chooses for himself. It is better to confine yourself to presenting a certificate to the appropriate store, where the teacher can choose the aroma to his liking.
• Any kind of hygiene products - deodorants, shower gels, anti-cellulite creams, etc. You don't even need to explain why.
• Massager, inhaler, nebulizer, other medical equipment - this is not a gift.
• Underwear - here not only the linen itself will be inappropriate, but also a certificate to the appropriate store.
• Money - many people perceive such a gift as inappropriate, therefore, if you do not want to offend the teacher, refrain from giving the "envelope".

A present is not only a box in which it is put, but also a decoration. New Year is a time when beautiful wrapping paper shines everywhere, tinsel sparkles, Christmas balls and toys are burning with colorful lights. So wrap your gift in such a way that it will evoke a feeling of joy just by its appearance! If your gift is in a box, wrap it in pretty paper and decorate with tinsel. You can attach a spruce or pine twig with a couple of cones.

If your gifts are folded into a basket, it is very appropriate to decorate with tinsel and it, put some beautiful Christmas tree decorations, figures of Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, tangerines with leaves, bows made of bright paper.Then your gift will not only look bright, it will smell like New Year.

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