We do a Staff Appreciation so the total number of people is 102. We serve a continental breakfast left in the staff lounge for the week (parents donate bagels, donuts, granola bars, fruite, OJ, coffee, tea and I make my famous scones) and we have a lunch on Thursday (I call parents asking for specific foods and try to keep it to simple things that if leftover can be easily reheated or keep in the fridg) Also I like to deliver special platters of everything to the custodians - some work second shift and the day shift feel uncomfortable sitting with the teachers and would rather eat in the custodians office together. Some ideas I have done so far: a beach theme - gift: beach towels that were on clearance in the fall, we had to store them for most of the school year but they were only $3 for nice thick towels. garden: gardening tools with seeds from Targets Dollar area ($3 for everything) red, white, and blue: Tin Star ornaments ($2 but really nice), picnic: glass sun tea containers with lemonade mix and tea bags - again I got these on clearance after the summer and we had to store them also but for $3 I could not resist them. I am at a lost for what to do this year. I really like to have a theme so I will have to ck out pintrest for some ideas.
There are a lot of great ideas on Pinterest. For this year we are doing several things. A sheet cake and veggie tray for the teachers on Appreciation day. For an individual gift we are getting travel-style coffee mugs in the school colors with the school name printed on the side. We are filling these with smarties candies and a sharpie marker. The card will read something to the effect of :Thanks for all you do to make our kids such "Smarties" and "Sharpies". We found 8 packs of sharpies this week for less than $10 with an attached package of 8 additional sharpies free. The mugs we are ordering online (100 for approximately $280) which, with the order minimum will leave us some extra mugs to use as door prizes for PTO events or participation awards for Talent Show, etc. I got this idea from Pinterest and tweaked it a little to suit us. There are tons of great gift ideas on there, I'd urge you to check it out.
We do a different idea for everyday of the weeks. some include local krispy kreme doing a breakfast spread, recess break, gift cards for each teacher, notes with candy attached to them, gift baskets filled with goodies, finding other local business to do a lunch spread for teach if you google ta ideas it will give you a few others. hope this helps some
We went into the school after school hours and left coffee cups full of candy and balloons in front of every teachers class room so when they came in there was a surprise for them.
them we called Dutch Bros. and had flavored coffee brought to school in the staff room.
