<p>Alas, my creative juices aren't flowing right now because I'm cramming for finals. :( So does anyone know a creative idea/gift to give to a teacher who teaches APUSH? I'm getting a recommendation letter from this teacher, so I don't want to give her just a gift card or clothing.</p>
<p>i gave mine a gifr card when she wrote me a rec letter,</p>
<p>Are they a history teacher that is really into what they teach? If so, something involving some part of US history that they’d find interesting could work.</p>
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<p>Then what are you going to get her? A diamond ring? A gift card seems more than adequate to me.</p>
<p>a gift card to a really nice restuarant with enough $ on it for her and her husband would be really nice. i’m sure she doesn’t want a coffee cup that says #1 teacher on it.</p>
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That’s extremely expensive! I would think your teacher would be uncomfortable with such an extravagant gift because it looks like a bribe!</p>
<p>mcdonalds isn’t that expensive.</p>
<p>Pretty much everyone gets their teachers a gift card. A gift card just doesn’t say it’s from the bottom of your heart though. And this is my favorite teacher, so i don’t want to do that to her. Oh by the way, she’s not married so the gift card for two wouldn’t work.
I was thinking along the lines that rhythmgaming said. I found a mug that had like history stuff on it and said #1 APUSH Teacher. Only problem is, the history stuff on it is inaccurate. So my teacher will think that i learned nothing lol</p>
<p>You could given her a home made card that has a Constitution/Declaration of Independence kind of theme. Get some brown paper (scrapbook paper? brown paper bags?), scrunch it up, write in cursive in sharpie…do you get what I mean. You could write all your thanks or whatever and attach a gift card at the end, if you’d like. It’s basically just a gift card and a card, but it’s creative (;
I haven’t got much else…</p>
<p>I just bought my english teacher one of those little glass deals with micky mouse in it for $10, because I kinda broke this little snow globe she had of micky mouse and this little glass deal is actually really strong and I don’t think it’s as easily broken.</p>
<p>I’m giving my ToK/physics (I didn’t have physics at high school, she was everyone elses physics teacher and I just skipped in her class all the time, answering questions asked to the class to bother 'em) teacher a robot once I come back to visit in the fall. It’s kinda like the first thing I’m gonna do at college is build a little robot, any kind of little robot, and then give it to her.</p>
<p>Otherwise I’m just giving teachers those graduation pictures of me if they want, they love those things to put on their walls. Best gift really is to go off and become successful and then return to school when they have an apathetic class and say “I AM A SUCCESS! AND IT IS THANKS TO HER/HIM! LISTEN AND LEARN!” in your new found successful voice. And then just give the teacher some cash.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone here gets giftcards for recommending teachers. They just seem so impersonal. Sometimes we get a giftcard four our orchestra teacher’s end of year present from the seniors, but only in addition to other stuff.</p>
<p>I got my chem teacher a giant cookie that was in the shape of the periodic table. It had all of the element’s symbols on them, and was color coded for the different families. He liked it, so much that he gave me a little thank you letter (leading me to wonder if I should re-thank him) and it was huge, so he shared it with the class. It was difficult finding a box large enough for it though.
For my Art History teacher, I just happened to be at Schipol airport in the Netherlands, and since they’re all “We’re Dutch, look at our Dutch art!” they have chocolates whose wrappers have famous pictures on them. I was sure she would think that was cool, and then I got her a book at the British Museum, since she wrote my British recommendation. Oh, and next year, she’s getting a thank you letter from MIT, which is cool, because it seems to be a school she really likes (her father’s alma mater). Like, she told us all about them announcing decisions on pi day/hour/minute and everything. It wasn’t that expensive, maybe €5 for the chocolate and £3 for the little book, so eleven or twelve bucks.</p>
<p>So, those are gifts related to the teachers’ subjects. Sometimes people also get more random gifts. My human Geo teacher is sort of a random person, so this girl, who was also sort of random, got him a pineapple, which he seemed to like. He showed it off to his classes. But most people get their teachers pastries, I think, either homemade or bought. Sometimes more generic presents can be good. If I had bought a present for my 9th grade Modern History teacher, it would have been a coffee mug, since he’s basically a coffee addict. And I considered buying a mug with chem stuff on it for my chem teacher, since he also loves coffee, but I decided to instead neglect my studies and spend hours making the aforementioned giant cookie.</p>
<p>I got my math teacher a mug saying “你他妈的婊子”</p>
<p>^That is very inappropriate!</p>
<p>@onetwentyone Thanks for your idea! It’s ingenious! 
@Millancad I agree, a gift card is too impersonal. I love your periodic table cookie. That’s really cool. xD I think i’ll combine yours and onetwentyone’s idea of making something myself.
@SomeChineseguy LOL I was actually able to read that. (i’m chinese) Lol you’re horrible.</p>
<p>People that give teacher’s gifts make me sick.</p>
<p>People who pluralize with apostrophes make me chunder everywhere.</p>
<p>It’s a way to say thanks. Looks like someone’s unappreciative.</p>