Christmas Gift Ideas for Teachers

Let’s face it, teachers in this day and age have a pretty tough job. Certainly none of us would relish the thought of standing in front of 30 of today’s Gen Y’s for 7 hours a day. We all know by the end of the school holidays we can’t wait to get them out of our hair. Which brings us to the point of this article - Christmas presents for your child’s teacher. It’s an important time for students and parents to say ‘thanks for looking after my kid for 1,400 hours this year!’ That’s right, an average 1,400 hours a year students spend in front of their teachers.

• Alcohol – the fundamental Christmas Gift

Gifts of wine or alcohol are always welcomed at the end of a long year with the little terrors, I mean students. We all know it, most people love a good drop of wine so you can’t go wrong with picking a good red or white wine to show your thanks to the teacher.

Sites to check out for your Christmas Wine Gifts:

The recently revamped Vintage Cellars website is easier to navigate. They provide great search options so you can specify price, variety and wine region & country. When your results are presented you can sort the alphabetically, or price, or vintage –making it so easy to pick your teachers bottle of plonk.

Maybe you want to stock up on your wine, or buy in bulk for others Christmas gifts. Check out the good people at Cellarmasters pre-picked selection. They deliver all over Australia.

• Coffee Mugs with assorted coffees – this is a bit of an old faithful

Coffee is the staple backbone in any teacher’s diet. So giving a Christmas gift of nice gourmet coffee and coffee mug is sure to put a smile on any teachers face.

Sites to check out for your Christmas Coffee Gifts:

Hudsons Coffee provides a variety of choices in coffee beans, flavours from Jamaican Supreme to my personal favorite Manhattan style. Hudsons offer a 30-day 100% satisfaction guarantee on all of the products they sell. They use Australia Post – Express Post satchels so you’re order will turn up pretty quickly.

• Photo frames – Christmas Gift from the kids that don’t wan to be forgotten.

A photo frame is one of those all-round Christmas gift winners. Teachers are especially chuffed to receive them.

Sites to check out for your Christmas Photo Frame Gifts

Frameshop.com.au has an amazing service where you can upload your digital photo and your photo is delivered professionally framed. Alternatively, they do sell just the photo frames so your teacher is free to insert their own.

• Chocolates – a ye ‘ol faithful Christmas Gift

This might actually not be one for the online & home delivery convenience in comparison to other gifts for the simple fact we live in a darn hot climate at Christmas time. Transport and even deliver to your front door I would be skeptical of the condition the chocolates might turn up in. So I’m recommending an in store visit for this one.

Sites to check out for your Christmas Chocolates pre-shopping:

Darrell Lea probably has the most extensive retail network in Australia, to find your nearest location and check out the range visit the Darrell Lea website.

Victoria, New South Wales & South Australian’s can visit Haigh’s Chocolates

• Stationery – a Christmas Gift winner especially for Female Teachers.

Stationery is still an appreciated Christmas gift in this digital communication age we now live in. Of course when it comes to stationary the modern mecca is kikki.k. You can select from journals, diaries, pens, paper & storage products. You can select standard or express post for your items and there are some small delivery charges.

• Books – After all we are speaking of Christmas Gifts for TEACHERS.

The summer Christmas holidays is an excellent time for teachers to appreciate their love of books. So help their summer reading along buy giving them a book.

Sites to check out for your Christmas Book Gifts:

Probably a lesser known site to some people but has been an online book seller for many years is Booktopia. They have an amazing selection of books with an excellent delivery price $6.50.

Angus & Robertson have online shopping too. If you’re stuck for ideas check out the A&R recommends section.

• Candles – the Christmas Gift for relaxation

This gift is probably skewed towards the girls, but you can’t go past a beautiful candle. Set to create a relaxing atmosphere by the bath or a romantic setting for your favourite teacher.

Sites to check out for your Christmas Candle Gifts:

One of my favourite candle stores is Dusk, and they have online shopping! Double bonus, they’re currently offering 10% off for your first online order, and shipping is flat rate of $10 – so you could even purchase for some others while you’re there to maximise your shipping investment.

• Massage/Facial vouchers – the never go wrong Christmas Gift

Receiving a voucher for massage or facial is the never-go-wrong Christmas gift for any woman. You can never have received too many.

Sites to check out for your Christmas Facial Voucher Gifts:

Ella Bache is probably the biggest Beauty salon retail chain in Australia. They offer a gift card service however only for select stores. Search on their site to see if your local store honours the vouchers.

• Calendars – the always useful Christmas Gift

A calendar is the always useful Christmas Gift. The range available in calendars is quite amazing. These days there is something for every taste and enthusiast in the form of a calendar.

Sites to check out for your Christmas Calendar Gifts:

The range on Calendars.com.au is huge. Their shipping is $3.99 + $0.99c per calendar shipped to anywhere in Australia. Again, would make sense to think about your other Christmas Gift lists and buy in bulk.

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