Teacher Appreciation Week: Best and Strangest Gifts for Teachers

Teacher Appreciation Week: Best and Strangest Gifts for Teachers

In time for Teacher Appreciation Week, EdTech startup Front Row Education, Inc. asked K-8 teachers what gifts they prefer to receive from students. Teachers also described some of their favorite and weirdest gifts.

Favorite gifts include:

  1. Personalized thank you card
  2. Gift card
  3. Homemade craft
  4. Nothing
  5. Coffee mugs, picture frames
  6. Homemade food

Example of 10 of the weirdest gifts teachers have received from their students:

  1. An empty Gatorade bottle with a gecko inside
  2. Fake poo
  3. A nose hair trimmer
  4. A live bug
  5. A picture of a Christmas tree in a frame
  6. A tee shirt with my photo transferred onto it
  7. Enchiladas
  8. Matching pajamas with a student
  9. On my 50th birthday - 50 rolls of toilet paper
  10. Toilet brush set