Good morning!
I’ve had a few requests this week on thoughtful teacher gifts in a range of budgets as the school term ends so I thought I would share what our mama tribe at Ella Grace’s school put together. 😍❤️🎉
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A good #kacaumamahack?
Combine your resources and gift together!
Each gift basket cost about RM250 per teacher for ten teachers but because all the lovely parents got involved, it made it pretty affordable when we split the cost across 20 families but was still able to get something nice, thoughtful, and personal.
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The teachers at her school usually bring their lunch to school and spend all day running around with our crazies so our gift basket kinda reflected that:
- travel tumbler / coffee mug (The Batik Boutique)
- tiffin carrier (ARCADIA)
- instant brewed coffee (SquEEEze Me Baby)
- organic chocolate (Green & Black's from Ben's Independent Grocer)
- vitamin c (Redoxon from CARiNG PHARMACY)
- pocket chia seeds (Ben's Independent Grocer)
- calming lavender hand lotion (Crabtree & Evelyn Malaysia)
- gourmet ice cream voucher (Kind Kones)
Of course, you can pick and choose or add according to your budget and if you have no budget at all, as a former teacher, some of my favorite gifts were also sweet homemade cards, a little video message, or maybe just a silly song the kids sang together.
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Remember, it's the thought and sincerity that counts, so whether you have RM1 or RM200, it was mostly just teaching our littles the beautiful art of saying thank you.
Ella Grace helped me pack it all and as we put it together, we got to talk about what her teachers do for her everyday, why we picked the gifts we did, and helped her to really reflect and process what it means to care for each other.
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Racheal Kwacz is a Child and Family Development Specialist, mama tribe advocate, and writer. As creator of the ‘RACHEAL Method’, she combines her 20+ years experience working with children in the USA and in Asia with the foundations of ‘Respectful Parenting’, leading parents and teachers around the world in raising kind, confident, compassionate, resilient little ones.
To learn more, connect with her on her website or follow her on instagram and facebook at @rachealkwacz !
