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@Mrs D: hats off to you for spending only $50 on 50 people. I thought that would have for sure been pushing $200. LO still goes to the infant room every morning until the crawlers arrive. I almost pulled the trigger on getting them something too, but DH reminded me I gave them thank you gifts already. Heck, I love all the "goodmornings" the front desk staff gives me on my way to work. Everyone should get a gift!
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@Mrs. Goose: Thanks for your reply. Do you find Wal-mart or Target to have better supplies?
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We are doing a $15 Chipotle card + some cold brew coffee + a bottle of wine for each teacher. 5 teachers. LO goes 4 days per week, full time.
We did something similar last week, and the teachers seemed surprised and grateful.
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We are doing $20 each teacher.
For those of you that are teachers, if you got a GC to say Target, would you spend it on yourself or for class stuff? I was hoping the teachers would use their cards for themselves....
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I did $25 Target gift cards this year
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: We have an awesome bagel place that is a bakers dozen plus 2 tubs of cream cheese for $12.50...it works out great! Gotta love small businesses...
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At our center, individual families are only allowed to give cards or homemade gifts to avoid favoritism or making families who can't afford gifts feel badly. Parents (anonymously) pool money together to a class (or this year, center-wide) fund for teacher gift cards, and sometimes for a special thank you catered meal or treat. We usually put in $10-20 for the communal gift.
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@nana87: It's interesting how different schools do it! Ours doesn't allow communal gifts because they don't want families to feel obligated to contribute. But that is what I would prefer so I didn't have to worry myself over it!
Thanks for everyone's feedback! Seems like $20-25 is about average and that's how I was leaning.
Now I need to decide on where the card should be for! In the city so we don't have target/Walmart type places. I was thinking Amazon for practicality or Sephora for fun!
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I used to do $50/teacher but have cut down now that my 3 kids are all in child care/preschool and there are many many teachers/staff. For the main teachers, I do $30-40, for the floater teachers, I do $15-20.
We tend to not contribute to the communal donation fund with cash (because I can never really tell if it was in fact given to the teachers as promised), but instead donate raffle item for the holiday party. We've also grouped with specific classroom parents to cater a lunch for teachers and staff.
This year I remembered to buy the Target giftcards when they were 10% off so that's what the teachers will be getting!
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@Shannon: interesting! That makes me feel better about only planning on doing $5-$10 giftcards... We just can't spend $100+ on teacher gifts
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@Shannon: I think there's a big difference between the norm for daycare teachers and public school teachers, so that might be part of the discrepancy.
I'm gifting $50 each to my daughters daycare teachers. They deserve it and they don't make anywhere near what a public school teacher would make.
As a high school teacher, I'm thrilled with anything, even just a card. Most parents and kids don't do anything anymore at that age.
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@petitenoisette: Not in my experience. Especially since you often have more than one daycare teacher to gift for a young child, and fewer public school teachers per child. Regardless, everyone should give what they are comfortable with. I just know that outside of this forum, I hear a lot more of the $5-$10 range. After all, it's the thought that matters and not the amount, right?
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