Teacher Appreciation Gifts

Today was Miss Kiki's last day of pre-school and this past week I have been crunching my brain about what to get for the teachers. Let me rephrase that: I have been rigorously browsing Pinterest for ideas for presents for her teachers. They have all been very caring and supportive of Miss Kiki's at school, and Miss Kiki loves them all. I am a very grateful mother for that.

I wanted a gift that is useful, memorable, and from the heart. After browsing different ideas, I decided that the gift should be personalized with the teachers' names. Now it's just a matter of what it is.... Mugs? Tumblers? Or...?!

Lucky for me I have a network of wonderful, talented, smart, supportive, and simply awesome ladies from my alma mater, Santa Ursula High School. One of them owns Pintal Home, a home decor business that can do custom design orders on pouches, totes, pillows, and more. So this is what we came up with...

A pouch about the size of a mini iPad, with one of Miss Kiki's paintings as the front design, and the back is personalized with the teacher's name. With the painting, we added a quote about teachers.

I've mentioned in a post last year that Miss Kiki takes drawing lessons, so I chose the latest painting she did, a water colour piece.

The left one is the teacher's painting and the right one is Miss Kiki's

And these are the end results...

I love them! Miss Kiki was very proud to tell her teachers that it was her artwork, and they were all very happy too. All in all, I think this was a good idea. If you want to contact Pintal Home, you can email pintalhome@gmail.com or WhatsApp +62 811 888 6414

Please don't forget to tell the nice lady that you found her through me :)

For the administration staff and the helpers I found nice Terry Palmer towels and have them embroidered with names. I think they are also nice... For the male helpers I got Batik shirts.

I am quite happy with them all.... If you have any ideas or suggestions for other gifts for teachers, please do not hesitate to let me know! :)

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