Teacher Christmas Gifts

Favorite teacher Christmas gifts are a coffee mug of your child's drawing, a Things We Love About Your Teacher canvas, and Santa's Nice List with a few classmates' names, on a mug or pillow. The canvas uses a few lines from the class, so no photo hunt. The Nice List adds the year.

Pick by who is giving: a coffee mug of one child's drawing comes from a family, while one canvas carrying short notes from several students comes from the class. Preschool and daycare teachers love handprints; older grades enjoy writing a reasons list. Without photos, Santa's Nice List or a Things We Love About Your Teacher canvas from Printerpix still works.

A coffee mug with your child's drawing of the teacher photographed onto it is a teacher holiday gift from one family. A puzzle of the same drawing makes a fun desk break. Add a line your kid writes to the mug, so the teacher knows exactly who it came from.

A room parent can collect a photo book of the students' drawings through the class group chat, one page each plus a sentence the kid writes, as a whole-class holiday present. Kids who prefer writing can send a short note instead of a picture. Printerpix shows the full design before anyone pays.

A Printerpix pillow of the children's painted handprints, with a thank-you line, makes a Christmas gift for daycare teachers. A kindergarten or preschool teacher may love a puzzle made from the kids' finger paintings. Name every aide on the gift, because daycare rooms run on a team.

A coffee mug with a student's drawing of him and a line from the kids is a Christmas gift a male teacher will take to the teachers' lounge. If he also coaches, a canvas covered in the players' thank-you notes works on the gym wall. A personalized gift shows which class it came from.

A framed print of the class works only with a picture the school itself has sent home to families. Otherwise stick to drawings, handprints and words. For end-of-year and appreciation week, see our gifts for teachers page; our stocking stuffers page has small extras, and our Christmas gifts page holds the rest of the season.