I've never got my vio teacher anything before but she always gives me cards Should I give her a card, gift? What are you getting your teachers for xmas? ^^

Erin xx

EDIT: Yeah I have seen the thread in 'Teachers', but id like to ask you as students what you plan on getting

I'll probably get a nice card and maybe chocs?

Ditto

IrisH - LoonY

We tend to give teachers the best chocs we can find - really nice expensive ones but this year they all complained about expensive dental problems! So we are stuck! Any other ideas? No time to make crafts!!! My girl saw in a C'mas catalogue and thus suggested a metal badge with the word PERFECT sculptured on it because according to her, all the music people (she meant her conductors and her instrumental teacher) are perfectionists! Any good?

I am going to make a card...and as for present, I haven't a clue!

My kids got their music teachers a small box of chocolates and a magnetic 2B pencil with I Love Cello or violin. These pencils are excellent for orchestra as they hang on the stand very nicely. The teachers all liked them

That's really handy actually! Where do you get them? I'm always getting told off at orchestra for not having my pencil ah well I'm remembering more and more now!

My mum always thinks of something!

I got my voice teacher a purple tree ornament--she takes great pride in her Christmas Tree, and she loves purple!!!

i'm afraid im out of money i really should of saved some and got my cello teacher something, she can be really snappy if i do one mistake but i guess it helps me improve, im gonna beg my parents for money and get her something nice

I get mine a nice fat glossy magazine - Home and Garden for 2 of them and NZ Gardener for the third. It is our long summer holiday here and they all liked those to relax with last year so I'm doing the same this year

I made my teacher something But I can't say as I don't know if she reads these forums or not!

Ash

What about homemade cookies or prawn crackers? Not my idea. VN can make them herself. If ONLY we can find some really BIG air-proof bags or nice-looking airtight ones but they are all lunchbox sizes. Far too small! Real shame. Seems such a lovely and original idea. Hmm, I wonder...

By the way, those of you who are teachers, is this a good idea or not???

Tess

Lucky you it's 2 degrees here .

I don't think what I get my teacher counts here (if it does I'll look quite generous ).

I love cookies - no-one's ever made me any for christmas though I don't like chocolates much, but I do like wine, exciting things to put in the bath (bombs, etc) and random musical things. I got a lovely mug one year that was pink and purple and covered in music staves - correctly too!! My pupils know how much tea I drink in lessons so it was spot on!

Would probably be censored, too.

I've just bought my teacher a pencil, and it seems totally inadequate! I don't know what else to get her. I know she doesn't especially want chocolate, and wine seems a bit predictable. I suppose I could make some cookies or something, but where do you get the celephane from to put them in?!

I ordered music from Brittens Music and with it I received a catalogue of gifts, I saw the perfect gift for my clarinet teacher....a minature clarinet, made out of wood, and comes in a case with red velvet for £12.99.

Here's the link for Brittens Music. (Go to the gifts section!)

p.s. for the minature instruments go to the "Other Gifts" section in the "Gifts" section, there's lots!

Hulk

I've seen them on e-bay, and they may well sell them somewhere like Boosey and Hawkes.

LynneM

I get my teacher chocolate liquer cherries. Apparently she tries very hard to ration them, but doesn't get very far when she leaves the box on her bedside table . She's got quite a good deal this year actually as I haven't seen her since last December ; but I'm going to invite her over for a cup of tea and a chat to catch up with her when I go home .

I'm getting my teacher a nice glass bowl and putting chocolates in it and a card.

We are giving her teachers yummy Belgian chocolates (sorry!) and books in the inspiring Chicken Soup series.

I made my teacher some biscuits and wrapped them up nicely, I made her a card, and I got her like a wooden music clip thing. I took them into school on Friday and my teacher was ill, and I might not see her next week! Argh. Will have to re make the biscuits.

Pressies??....oooo, thank you. A new Porsche Caymen would be very nice!

I made my teacher lots of different kinds of yummy biscuits!

Then I bought a really nice tin to store them in and wrote a card to go with it

I gave it to her today and got a hug in return yay!!

Awww...well, I gave my teacher the bag with the presents and cards in and she seemed really appreciative. However, because she was late, we started straight away on the lesson. It was quite funny because I'd made them for her the previous week, but she'd been ill, so we had to eat the biscuits. Then when we did them again, we put them too close together, so they weren't that easy to tell what they were. However, there were some good ones, thankfully!

What's the criterion of a nice card? And Chocs? It may be an offence if your teacher's overweight or on diet.

Viohazard and I are scratching our heads on this one! No problems with the guitar teacher, we know he likes a nice bottle of Spanish wine

Viohazard just started with a new violin teacher, a young, single man. Who knows what he eats, drinks, reads, listens to? Might buy a CD of one of Viohazard's more offbeat preferences and see if we can widen the fan-base for Simon Shaheen's oriental violin music!

...or maybe fluffy slippers with little animals on the fronts?

"The Bullet !!!!!!!!"