In the 90’s, I taught English as a Second Language to public high school students. My favorite gifts from these students were bags of churritos with hot sauce. The kids would light up when I actually ate from the bag they offered me; their maestra wasn’t used to foods quite that spicy. But… I kept up.
A few years later, I taught ESL to adult refugee students. They gifted me with Musaka from Bosnia, and Russian dumplings. The end-of-year school parties were planned around my students’ homemade cuisine, a gift I would welcome over a Starbucks gift card any day.
That’s what the teacher really wants. She wants something personal, or useful. It could be unique… or even handmade.
4 handcrafted gift ideas for your child’s teacher
- Lotion bars are easy, you can make enough for several teachers, regardless of the age or gender, and they’re customizable. How to make a lotion bar.
- Choose one of 5 recipes in the My Buttered Life: Gift Giving ebook : chocolate body mousse, flavored lip balms, chocolate peppermint lotion bars, scented & shaped lotion bars. Mix and match, as each of the recipes calls for 5 ingredients or less.
- In less than 30 minutes you can make 6 bottles of roll-on perfume using just an oil and a blend of scent oils. Swap out the fragrance oil suggested in the recipe for your own custom blend of essential oils. Be sure to look up a safe amount of essential oils (dependent on the oil you choose). Click here for complete recipe. Maybe she needs a blend of lavender and peppermint as a tension tamer.
- For the active teacher, make some herbal salve with this recipe, which includes extra instructions if you plan to infuse your own herbal oil (two gifts in one!).
Of course, if time is limited and you’d rather use your free time to make sure your child ends his year with a strong finish, leave it to MadeOn to supply a pack of 5 Beesilk or Au Chocolat lotion bars for your children’s teachers.
After that, she’ll get what she really, really wants… the summer off.