Teacher appreciation gift ideas can be hard! Especially if a teacher has been really great and has made a huge difference in your child’s life choosing the best teacher appreciation gift can require a lot of time, creativity, and research!
While there are a lot food teacher gift ideas, tons of crayon teacher gift ideas, probably even more coffee teacher gift ideas, if you really want to get a teacher a gift they haven’t gotten twenty of and even better yet, a teacher gift that will get used and cherished, well I’ve got good news!
Up ahead is a list of awesome teacher appreciation gifts that any teacher will love and probably no teacher at your child’s school as received before! Wow, that’s a bold promise, right!?
Let’s see if I’m right! 🙂
10 Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas That Will Make All Teachers Happy
By the way, in case you’re wondering when to show that favorite teacher some love, the usual times of year for teacher gifts are the beginning of the school year, major holidays, the teacher’s birthday, if the teacher has a significant event happen in her/his life, and at the end of the year.
Beginning of the school year gifts are often gifts that convey the idea of “have a great year” or “thank you for teaching my child this year, here’s what you may want to know” or “I’m so excited my child is in your class!”
Major holidays that teachers get gifts for are basically any holiday that a teacher might have a party for such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and Easter. These teacher gifts might be in the form of holiday decor or special holiday cards with a small gift card inside.
A teacher’s birthday can be a fun time to bring the teacher flowers or balloons or have the class all bring snacks!
If a teacher has any sort of significant life event from marriage or pregnancy to a death in the family or a personal sickness, often gifts will come in the form of supportive messages, and perhaps meals sent or classroom help.
End of the year teacher gifts often coincide with the child leaving the teacher’s classroom and/or Teacher Appreciation Day and/or Teacher Appreciation Week, and these gifts range from “have a great summer” gifts to very personalized gifts that express heart-filled thanks for making a positive mark on a child’s life.
We’re going to focus on teacher appreciation gifts that are often given at the end of the school year but some of these gifts could be gifted to teachers any time of year so use your imagination and your own reason for getting a teacher a gift to help you decide the best gift on this list and the best time to give your child’s teacher a gift!
On to the teacher appreciation gifts!
#1 Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas: Personalized Print
I love this teacher gift idea! Maybe that’s why I put it for #1! LOL!
Oh my goodness, do you see the bottom?!
Where you can personalize what it says?!
You can personalize how your child’s teacher specifically helped, taught, mentored, blessed, nurtured, and loved your child!
That’s not all. You can personalize the entire box!
In fact, you can even change up the letter being highlighted! Yep, you could change it to the teacher’s last name or your child’s name or the school’s name or even to the letter “a” for “awesome” or “t” for “thankful”!
Oh, and you can change up the colors too! Yep, this is such a great teacher gift!
Oh my goodness, how cute would it be if your child (the teacher’s student) wrote the message that goes at the bottom of the picture?! The teacher would go crazy for it, I’m telling you!
This gift is so awesome I can’t even use enough exclamation marks!!!!
I love this personalized teacher gift, and I think any teacher would pretty much cherish it forever!
Want this teacher appreciation gift (and who wouldn’t?!): HERE IT IS!
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#2 Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas: Bubbles Print
How sweet is this teacher gift idea?!
This is a teacher gift the teacher for sure has never been given!
This would be so perfect as an elementary school teacher gift!
The little hand below the bubbles symbolizes all the fun, beauty, imagination, and possibility that can be realized by a child!
Sometimes teacher gifts are things that teachers will just toss away (because teachers like to get rid of clutter too!) but this is a teacher gift that the teacher might even want to display at home!
Want this teacher appreciation gift: HERE IT IS!
#3 Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas: Personalized Foil Art
If your child loves to draw pictures, this personalized foil teacher gift idea will be a favorite for your child and the teacher they give it to!
In the image above the child seems to have made a picture of their family, and most likely most people who purchase this excellent printing option do so for their own home (which you could totally do too!) but I see this as a fantastic gift idea from the child who loves to draw to the teacher they adore!
It would be so endearing to a teacher to have a beautified personal drawing from their student, and the child would feel so special gifting their artwork to their favorite teacher!
Naturally, the child could draw a picture of their teacher for this teacher appreciation gift, but the child could also draw the entire class, or the school, or an activity that they loved doing during the school year or even draw a picture of what the child learned from the teacher!
Want this teacher appreciation gift: HERE IT IS!
#4 Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas: Apple Art
If you’re looking for a teacher gift that looks classic-teacher, this teacher gift idea will be a fun option!
You could make your apple green or yellow too!
Again given the high-quality of this print the teacher may decide to display this at school or at home!
Want this teacher appreciation gift: HERE IT IS!
#5 Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas: Letter Art
If you’re looking for a teacher gift that is going to stand out from the rest, this last name letter art teacher gift idea is bound to be a teacher gift favorite!
Having the letter of your name up as decor is such a hot thing right now and this teacher gift can stand alone on a wall and hold its own, or it would be stunning in a gallery wall mixed with other fun teacher prints!
And you know what would be extra cute?! If the first or last name of the child gifting this cool letter art shared the same last-name-first-letter as the teacher!
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#6 Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas: Encouraging Words
This encouraging teacher gift idea would be loved by so many teachers!
Sometimes the best gifts are popular gifts, and this is for sure something that lots of teachers would go crazy for!
In my opinion, the true mark of a teacher is being able to teach without a book, and for many teachers, especially teachers who really try their best and go for lots of creativity in the classroom, this awesome art print for teachers would be a treasure!
Want this teacher appreciation gift: HERE IT IS!
#7 Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas: Class Photo
Oh dear, this class picture teacher gift idea is something all the parents in the class will want too!
I love how this class picture comes in Polaroid-style and doesn’t have all the pictures cropped to the same size!
This teacher gift can be changed up with tons of different options from color selection to choosing your pictures based on a theme such as everyone wearing their favorite color or all the kids doing a funny face or every child somehow doing something that visually displays their unique personality!
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#8 Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas: Teacher’s Notebook
If you want a teacher gift that includes this teacher’s name, this personalized teacher gift idea is cute plus practical!
The cover of this notebook says it all (what teacher wouldn’t love carrying this around?!), but the options of having stickers, or making the book into a planner all add up to a super grand gift idea for making a teacher feel special!
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#9 Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas: You Are Here Print
Wow, I’m so crazy about this unique teacher gift idea that nobody else will have!
Okay, so as you can see in the picture (since the name is a first name and not the last name preceded with a “Mr.” or “Mrs.” that this is technically designed for a kid’s room (which is also a great reason to get this artwork LOL), but I think this would SO cool as a teacher gift!
Because this picture can be personalized (!), you can put in the teacher’s name, and it will suddenly become clear that the arrow is pointing to the teacher’s classroom! You could also add another word instead of “room” like “classroom” or even the number of the classroom like “#198 Ms. Alex” or however you want to identify the teacher’s class location!
I’m telling you, this is such a wonderful teacher gift!
Heck, this would be a great principal gift or school gift LOL! Everyone loves to see their special place in America in relation to the entire country!
Want this teacher appreciation gift: HERE IT IS!
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#10 Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas: Class Photo
If the teacher you’re shopping for loves photos and also loves hearts, this class photo teacher gift idea will be such a winner!
To make this fun gift, you simply change out the pictures to be your pictures (probably all the kids in the class), and you can even change up the colors of the heart and do some changes to the overall picture that will make this teacher gift extra fun!
Want this teacher appreciation gift: HERE IT IS!
*Bonus* Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas: Teacher Appreciation Printables!
Looking for some FREE teacher printables to use for your teacher gift?! Here are 10+ printables (various quotes and designs) for you to print out, put in a frame, and gift to a teacher! 🙂FREE Teacher Printable Pack!
Bonus from me to you!
I made some FREE teacher printables for you that you could easily print off, pop in a frame, and gift to the teacher you’re shopping for!
I created more than ten designs with various quotes and graphics so there’s a good chance you’ll find at least one winner!
And… if you want you could even make a gallery wall using these! The options are endless! 🙂
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There you go!
Hopefully, your search for the perfect teacher gift is now over and you have found the perfect teacher appreciation gift for your child’s teacher!
Teaching is such an important role, and any gift you give to the teacher in your life will be a gift worth giving!
Happy Teacher Appreciating! 🙂
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FREE Teacher Printable Pack!
Looking for some FREE teacher printables to use for your teacher gift?!
Here are 10+ printables (various quotes and designs) for you to print out, put in a frame, and gift to a teacher! 🙂