Teacher Christmas Gifts

The best teacher Christmas gifts are a mug of your child's drawing, Things We Love About Your Teacher on a Printerpix canvas, or Santa's Nice List with a few names from your child's class, on a mug or cushion. The canvas needs no photos, only a few lines from the class. The drawing mug needs just a phone photo.

A mug of one child's drawing suits a gift from one family, while a canvas of a few lines from the class suits a class collection. For nursery and reception, the children's handprints work best; older classes can write a reasons list in their own words. When nobody has photos, Things We Love About Your Teacher or Santa's Nice List needs none.

A cushion for the reading corner, with your child's drawing photographed onto it and a thank-you line in their own spelling, is a Christmas gift one family can give. A Printerpix jigsaw of the same drawing makes a calm extra for wet play. Keep it small; teachers are thanked by a lot of families in one week.

The parents can club together for a photo book of the children's drawings, one page per child with a line in their own words, as a class Christmas gift. One parent collects photos of the drawings through the class chat and puts the pages in order. Children who would rather write than draw can add a short note instead.

A Printerpix jigsaw of the children's painted handprints is a Christmas gift for nursery staff that the whole room helped make. A preschool or nursery teacher who keeps the room cosy might like a cushion of the same handprints for story time. Name each key worker in the thank-you line so nobody is missed.

A mug with your child's drawing of him and a few words they chose suits a male teacher at Christmas. If he coaches football after school, a canvas of the team's thank-you lines works in the PE office. Teaching assistants deserve the same thought, so make two.

A framed print or canvas of the class only works with a class photo the school sent out to parents itself. Otherwise use the children's drawings, handprints or words. Our gifts for teachers page has end-of-year ideas, our Christmas gifts for colleagues page covers the staffroom team, and our Christmas page holds everything else for the season.