I need some end of the year gift ideas for the kids in my kindergarten classes. 35 kids total. The teacher I work with made up bags with forget me not seeds in a flower pot, a little notecard and an envelope w/her address on it. I need to get them something too, just something small, but I am stuck for ideas.

By Mrsheidi on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 08:17 pm:

When I taught, instead of giving gifts, I would write down a special gift that they have to offer the world and put it on special paper. For kindergartners, I would add a piece of candy too. (I used hershey kisses and hugs.)

ie: I knew this girl's mother had died and the student had great maternal instincts, so I put the word "maternal" as her gift and explained how her gift would mean more to others than herself.

Go to this link to get word ideas (they are towards the bottom, so you'll have to scroll down a bit.)

Positive Adjectives

By Reds9298 on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 08:46 pm:

The Dollar store is a GREAT place to get GREAT gifts for that age, with 3-5 items in each package. (Example, 4 sunglasses in a pack, 4 activity books in a pack, etc.)

I always used the $1 store when I taught K. I had 50 kids on average and it really helped me to save $ and the kids loved their stuff!

Maybe a "summer" pack for them? They have a lot of sand and beach toys right now there. You could buy the sand toys packs and split them up, I think they have 2 beach balls in a pack to split up, lots of stuff like that. That's just an idea.
One of the things I used to always buy (at Christmas) were the packs of hair barrettes for the girls and little cars for the boys. I would split them up and add it to their bag. Also they always had 4 boxes of crayons to a pack, pencils, erasers, activity books....I did those as an end of the year summer learning pack, along with a parent pack of summer learning suggestions.
Good luck!!!