Teacher’s Gifts

Student’s Christmas Gift to Teachers

This year more than ever I wanted our Kindergarten teacher and her Educational Assistant to know just how much we appreciated them, especially after the year we had with remote learning with non-independent learners.

I wanted to create a gift that included each of the students, but how do you get 24 students handprints on one plate?! Our daughter was the one who came up with the idea to have everyone put their fingerprint on something to give to the teachers … and fingerprints can look a lot like Christmas ornaments!

Our local ‘Paint Your Own Pottery’ is amazing! They helped me pick out the cups and then put together a kit for me that included a variety of colors.

It took a few attempts using a pencil, but I eventually was able to sketch out a design that worked where I could space out each of the 24 student’s fingerprints with their names underneath so we knew who was who.

Once the template was finalized on the cups, I worked with another parent who was nice enough to help me capture each of the student’s fingerprints with the pottery paint. We wanted this gift to be a surprise so we made the students promise not to tell the teachers what we were making.

The final result was a success! Both the student’s Kindergarten teacher and her EA were surprised by this fun coordinated effort which allowed the students to all participate and show how much the appreciate everything they do for them!