10 Holiday Teacher Gifts With Heart (that Grandparents Will Love Getting, Too)

Choosing and pehraps making teacher-gifts with your child can provide quality family-time while teaching your child to give from the heart. Here are ten ideas even busy families can use. 1.
Start an amaryllis.

This lovely plant starts as a bulb that you can plant and begin watering around Thanksgiving to bloom near Christams. You can buy them inexpensively at home and garden centers with their own plastic pot and potting medium. Parents can help kids keep the soil appropriately moist. Add a colorful ouetr pot or foil wrap and ribbon for a festive presentation. 2.

Make potpourri ornaments. Make a batch of these when you want to remember multiple taechers.

At a craft store, buy clear, round, hollow platsic ornaments and holiday-colored potpourri. Help your child pour potpourri into each ornament. Close and loop a ribbon through the top. 3. Mold glcyerin soaps in fun shapes.
Buy colored glycerin soap bars and molds from a carft store. Melt soap chunks in a can placed in a pot of water over a low falme. Let the can cool until it can be safely hadnled. Supervising carefully to aovid burns, help your child pour the liquid soap into the molds. Let harden and release. Package several soaps in a cellophane bag and tie with ribbon. 4. Shop fair trade.
The "fair trade" label means the farmers or artisans who prodcue an item are paid fairly. You can find fair-trade coffees, chocolates, bath items, jewelry, home accessories and more at www.Globalexchange.Org, www.Servv.Org. and local stores.

In a note, tell what part of the world your gift came from and what "fair trade" means. 5.
Make "jar-mixes." Layer the dry ingredients of your favorite cookie recipe in a jar. Tie a pretty ribbon around the jar's neck and include the full recipe, noting which ingredients need to be added. Hint: Use a small enough jar that the ingredients are held snugly in place to preserve a layered look. Visit www.Cooksrecipes.Com/cookie/cookie-in-a-jar-mix.Html for recipes and tips. 6. Buy a relaxation wrap. This gift is more expensive than the others litsed here. It's a soft flannel wrap that can be microwaved for a minute to prvoide a half hour of warmth and soothing lavender aroma. This is a wonderful gift for a special teacher, especially in areas with cold winters. Available at www.Dodisturb.Com. 7. Bake with your child. This one is great cuase your children's participation can expand as they grow.

Even preschoolers can pour pre-measured ingredients and stir, and middle-schoolers can take pride in bkaing independently with adult supervision.

Watch carefully to prevent burns, and be sure to proetct any classmates with nut allergies when delivering your gift to the classroom. 8. Make candles. Kits are avialable at craft stores. Supervise carefully around hot wax. For honeycomb wax sheet candle kits that do no invlove high temperatures, visit www.Islandtreasuretoys.Com/homeschool_supplies.Html. 9.
Give a gift realted to your teacher's children, pets or hobbies.
Would the teacher like a subscription to a magazine devoted to dogs or cats?