Opinions on Presents

[apples and bananas]

I often give Michaels gift cards to teachers for Christmas presents. I think they use their own money in the class room anyways, so I hope my contribution makes it a little easier. So, I would think it would be very thoughtful to give a gift that gives back to the daycare. It gives me a little extra cash to spend on myself that I otherwise would have spent on the daycare.

[loulou]

I would love it! We go supplies so quickly and I find whenever the parents buy me supplies it isn't something I'd normally buy so it makes it more fun for the kids.

[playfelt]

I like the idea of the Michaels gift card because it can be spent on basics like foam and construction paper or on the provider herself if she does crafts or there are also so many useful things there from baking pans to seasonal decorations. My parents know my crafting habits and usually at least one gives me a Michaels card and I love it. That is what I used to do for my kids teachers when they were in primary but always presented it with a container from the dollar store filled with candy of some sort so there was still something tangible to open and the kids to see but the real gift was the gift card.

[Momof4]

Spixie, I understand because this has happened to me. It's a thoughtful gift but craft supplies for the daycare are a tax deduction for me so when parents give me daycare items I want to ask for the receipt, heehee. Really, it's kind of like when your son buys you a baseball mitt and glove that will fit his hand for Christmas, you know? A gift of daycare supplies is for the children, not for the caregiver so much.

[Judy Trickett]

No, I would NOT want daycare supplies. How would you feel if you worked in an office and your boss gave you a stapler and staples for your Christmas gift? I find that daycare providers are so often given thoughtless gifts or re-gifted gifts that we would NEVER gift anyone in the real world. We are usually an afterthought.

[daycarewhisperer]

I just want cash. I'm very fortunate that my day care parents are very generous at years end.

[Lou]

OMG the Lysol parent!!! How horrid!! "You shouldn't have" is the perfect response lol. I would like craft supplies as long as they were cool ones (construction paper and glue...um..no thanks), because I love that stuff, it can get pricey, and I get to use it with my daycare children and my own! Of course, I'd appreciate any gift (except effing Lysol though, ha!!).

Wine would make a fantastic gift!!!

[Spixie33]

When I started I bought the huge gallon of white glue for doing daycare crafts.

Well....since then....parents have gifted me craft supplies and I am not even half down my own jug of glue. I tend to get white glue as part of the craft supplies so I now have a huge collection of white glue.

I actually switched most of our crafts over to tacky glue because it holds things so much better i.e pom poms, buttons, etc so I have more white glue than I will probably need in the next 10 years. lol

[Inspired by Reggio]

.... I have more white glue than I will probably need in the next 10 years. lol

Time to make some flubber or shaving cream / white glue sensory and use that stuff up

[Spixie33]

Time to make some flubber or shaving cream / white glue sensory and use that stuff up

I was going to make the 50%shaving cream 50% white glue but then people told me it was a big mess and it dried awful for crafts.