Christmas gifts to creche/minder

yellow hen

Hi,

I'm just wondering what other people give their creche/minder for christmas (if you give anything)?

I really like the girl who minds our son in creche. I usually get the creche staff a few chocolates and biscuits etc but I like to get his main minder something. Maybe €30/40. I dont know her personally so not sure what she's into so i was thinking a dunnes voucher or something.

MollFlanders

I would go with a Dunnes voucher.

Gloomtastic!

I used to buy the crèche a couple of six packs of mini bottles of Baileys, depending on how many staff they had.

How Strange

Ive always given all the staff (about 6 of them) hand creams or something like that and sent in a tin of sweets

Rose35

I usually drop in tin biscuits & sweets for all the staff at christmas, it is what majority of parents do judging by the amount
stacked in office at christmas time, because my son is moving room after christmas i will give his two key workers a 50euro voucher each to say thanks for past year.

ash23

I usually give teacher/minder a newbridge silver christmas tree decoration. They're lovely and not too badly priced ranging from ten euro up

How Strange

I just remembered that last year I baked brownies about a week before they closed so before all the chocolate and sweets arrived instead of giving sweets.

LynnGrace

Voucher sounds like a good idea.

Some shopping centres do vouchers, which are handy, as they give the recipient more choice.

pwurple

Jaysus guys ye are very generous. 100 quid creche gifts is out of my range.

Me and the smallies are making chocolate bark and bagging them. We melt chocolate and pour it over hazelnuts and bits of honeycomb on nonstick paper. Break it into shards and bag it in cellophane. Tie with a bit of ribbon and a label from the child.

lazygal

I know lots of minders and teachers who dump gifts of homemade food items because they don't want to risk eating it! I'll give a voucher as I'm not imaginative at all.

Lisha

While I do agree that vouchers are great it really makes you give a bit extra, which sadly is not always possible .

Gifts I have given in past for Playschool teachers range from scarves, scented candles, Xmas decoration sometimes newbridge, and hand cream .

For childminder I pay her for week kids won't be there and she seems delighted with that.

Miaireland

lazygal wrote: »

I know lots of minders and teachers who dump gifts of homemade food items because they don't want to risk eating it! I'll give a voucher as I'm not imaginative at all.

I must confess I am gulity of this. I work in a job where I often get gifts at Christmas. I am wary of some homemade foods I get after getting a Christmas cake that had lots of black fingermarks and dirt on it.

yellow hen

Oh, I think the homemade treats are lovely. I'd eat them but them I'm clearly not that careful about I put in my mouth!

I think I'll drop homemade treats to the entire creche and just buy a small voucher for his minder. thanks.

pwurple

lazygal wrote: »

I know lots of minders and teachers who dump gifts of homemade food items because they don't want to risk eating it! I'll give a voucher as I'm not imaginative at all.

Era, if they do it's no bother. There was more effort from her in writing her name on the label than any of the rest of it. They're only small things, about 10-20grams. Thought that counts and all that.