| Creating a gift basket for your child's | | | | Movies, music, and sports are other themes |
| teacher is a great way to show your gratitude | | | | that should be appropriate for many teachers. |
| for the attention and assistance paid to your | | | | Simply choose a container, filler materials |
| children. The time you dedicate to putting | | | | to help hold your gift items in place, and |
| together an assortment of gift and food | | | | well wrapped food and gift items. Gift cards |
| items, chosen just for the teacher, is your | | | | are always great gifts when you are unsure of |
| way of personalizing your gift as a gesture | | | | the preferences of the teachers. |
| of your appreciation. | | | | |
| | | | An assortment of bath products and |
| If the teacher drinks coffee, make this your | | | | aromatherapy items is a nice idea for a |
| theme. A natural colored wicker basket is | | | | female teacher. Fill in empty spaces with |
| the ideal container. Place straw, crumpled | | | | rolled washcloths, bars of soap, votive |
| brown paper, or shredded newspaper in the | | | | candles, a loofah, net sponges, etc. If you |
| basket before placing the gifts. Add a | | | | include food gifts make sure they are well |
| decorative coffee mug, gourmet coffee, | | | | wrapped as the scents from the bath products |
| envelopes of flavored coffee, and small | | | | may seep in. |
| packages of cookies or chocolate candy. You | | | | |
| can wrap the finished gift in cello paper or | | | | Your gift basket can be as simple as a wicker |
| a cello bag tied at the top with raffia or | | | | basket lined with a colorful cloth napkin or |
| curly ribbon. Place the gift card in the | | | | tea towel. Place a loaf of freshly baked |
| basket with the gifts so it doesn't get lost. | | | | bread (or several muffins) wrapped in see |
| | | | through bags or wrap and tied with raffia in |
| It's not necessary to spend a great deal of | | | | the same color as the napkin or tea towel. |
| money on these gift baskets. Visit your | | | | Add several tea bags and a couple of small |
| local dollar type store for baskets, | | | | jars of preserves or jelly. |
| organizers, or large coffee mugs to use as | | | | |
| containers. They usually carry an assortment | | | | Visit my website for more information about |
| of colorful shred to use as filler, ribbons, | | | | creating gift baskets for teachers as well as |
| bows, gift tags, and lots of small gift items | | | | homemade gifts you can place in your gift |
| that are nice when making gift baskets. | | | | baskets or give as standalone gifts. |
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