Easy DIY Holiday Gift Ideas For Your Child’s Daycare Provider
Here is an awesome list of DIY Christmas and holiday gift ideas you (and your kids) can make for their daycare teachers this year.
With two kids in daycare, I have been brainstorming the best gifts to get for their teachers this holiday season.
Homemade gifts are the perfect solution – unique, thoughtful, and budget-friendly.
Every year I get so inspired to make handmade Christmas gifts for everyone I know.
Also, every year I end up either Pinterest-failing so hard whatever gift I decided to make that I can’t even give it as a gift OR waiting too long to DIY anything that I run out of time before the holidays arrive.
If you’re like me, this list is here to help.
You can’t go wrong with any of these homemade gift ideas. They are all easy to make and adorable gifts any daycare provider would love to receive this Christmas!
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The Best Homemade Holiday And Christmas Gifts for Daycare teachers
1. Handprint Bowl
My daughter and I made these handprint bowls for her grandparents one Christmas. These would also make a really great gift for a daycare teacher!
The bowls are useful and practical (we use ours for wrapped candy).
Plus, if you include your child’s handprint, their teacher will have something to always remember them by.
2. Snowman Candy Cane Holders
I am so excited about these adorable homemade candy cane holders. This is a great idea for an inexpensive yet thoughtful gift for a daycare teacher or group of teachers. Kids can help by picking out the color to uniquely decorate each snowman.
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3. Popsicle Stick Picture Frame
Such a cute and easy craft that your kid can help make. This would be perfect to give as a holiday gift. Even better if you can snag a photo of your child with their daycare teacher to include with the frame.
4. Holiday Snow Globes
Here’s a cute holiday craft your kids can help with. The end result is an adorable snow globe that can be gifted to daycare providers during the holidays.
5. Aromatherapy Shower Melts
Love the idea of bath bombs but not sure if your child’s daycare provider would use them? Check out this recipe for DIY shower melts! Shower melts will slowly dissolve when they get wet, giving off a soothing aromatherapy fragrance.
These are easy and fun to make and your kids will love helping.
6. Coffee Sugar Scrub
If you’ve never tried coffee sugar scrub, you’re missing out! I use it on my hands, my feet, my face… Make your own with this easy recipe. Any childcare worker would love to receive this as a gift.
7. No-Sew Braided Headband
Check out this braided headband tutorial for a practical and thoughtful gift for a daycare provider. Help keep their hair out of their face and prevent little hands from pulling at it!
8. Pressed Flower Bookmark
These pressed flower bookmarks are so pretty. They would make a really sweet gift for your child’s daycare provider.
9. Marbled Nail Polish Mugs
Give a plain white mug a marbled finish using nail polish. Pair this with Reindeer Hot Chocolate or Chocolate Chai Tea Latte (both ideas below) for a cute themed gift idea.
10. Garden Stepping Stones
This is such a unique and fun gift idea for daycare staff. Although they will need a parent’s help to make these stepping stones, kids can add a handprint or special embellishments to personalize these for their teachers.
11. Gingerbread Caramel Corn
A sweet a crunchy snack that is easy to make and perfect to give away as a gift for the holidays.
12. Gingerbread Granola
Want to give an edible gift that’s a little bit healthy? This gingerbread granola is a practical, unique and delicious gift.
13. Reindeer Hot Chocolate Bags
A creative yet simple DIY gift idea for daycare providers during the holidays.
14. Gingerbread Men
Classic gingerbread cookies! Portion them into individual bags for each teacher for a cute homemade holiday present.
15. Cookie Cutter Baking Soda Clay Magnets
A simple recipe for making fridge magnets. You can use different cookie cutters to make any shape you want. Kids will love decorating these magnets for their teachers.
16. Beaded Star
Make a beaded star as a thoughtful way to say thanks for all you do to your child’s daycare provider.
17. Homemade Cinnamon Ornaments
With only two ingredients, these cinnamon ornaments are super easy to make. Your little one will love helping to mix up the dough and decorate the ornaments for their favorite daycare teacher.
18. Keepsake Thumbprint Ornament
This is a truly simple craft that your little one can do to make a homemade ornament for their daycare teacher for Christmas.
19. Wooden Blocks Christmas Ornament
These holiday ornaments are adorable, simple to make, and budget-friendly. Kids will love getting to paint them and being involved in creating these gifts.
20. Elf Hat Ornaments
Kids can help make these elf hat ornaments as gifts for their daycare teachers. To personalize these, you can write the teacher’s name in the middle of the ornament. Even better, if your little one has started practicing letters, have them try writing their teacher’s name on the ornament.
21. Rainbow Chocolate Truffles
These three-ingredient truffles would make a delicious holiday gift!
22. Snowman Hot Chocolate Gift Set
Cups decorated to look like snowmen with hot chocolate ingredients inside – a cute and easy DIY gift idea.
23. Homemade Pizza Seasoning
Let your little one mix together different spices to create a pizza seasoning blend. A simple-to-make gift that anyone would love to receive!
24. Friendship Soup in a Jar
A unique and practical gift idea. Help your little one layer each ingredient in the jar to make this useful gift for daycare providers.
25. Chocolate Chai Tea Latte in a Jar
A thoughtful homemade gift for chai tea lovers (or anyone who would love to warm up with a hot drink during the winter).
HOmemade Holiday Gifts for Daycare Teachers
If you’re looking for a thoughtful and uncommon gift idea for your child’s daycare teacher this year, a DIY gift is the way to go.
It will make it extra special if your little one helps out with creating the present.
Childcare providers will love receiving a homemade gift that is as unique as your child!