CHILDREN around the country are getting ready to enjoy their summer breaks as the school term comes to an end.
Many pupils will want to thank their teachers for their hard work over the past year with a card or a gift.
Moonpig has launched a promotion allowing customers to get a free thank you card for teachers before the school term ends.
All you need to do to get the free card is browse the website to see which one you like the most and then enter a promo code at checkout.
The retailer has many designs available including one that reads “Thank you for bee-ing so amazing” and another saying “Real heroes don’t wear capes, they teach”.
There are also designs that simply read “Thank you” and others that can be personalised with the teacher’s name.
Once you find the design you like, add it to your basket, where you then need to enter the code “THANKYOU”.
Your basket will then be updated and the card will be free.
Bear in mind, though, that you might need to pay extra for postage.
When we checked, after adding a free card to the basket, postage cost £1.35, so that would be the total you need to pay.
A card is always a good idea to say thank you, and if you want to add something extra, teachers say the presents they treasure the most are the ones made by their pupils.
Let your little one create their work of art — a postcard with a picture on one side and a message on the other will melt hearts.
Show it off in a silver hanging metal frame, with glass on each side, down from £4.50 to £2 at Matalan.
For the tea or coffee-loving teacher, you could opt for a reusable cup or special mug for the staff room.
You could place a homemade or shop-bought goodie inside and, if you can spare the cash, a gift voucher for their favourite coffee shop would be the cherry on top.
You could then attach a hand-written, heartfelt gift tag from your child.
Other gift ideas for teachers could also be a plant or a book.
Alicia Dougherty, a mum-of-11 from the US, took to social media to reveal the extreme lengths she went to to show appreciation for her children’s school teachers.
Posting online under the username Dougherty Dozen, Alicia, who is based in New York and recently left people shocked with her four trolley shopping trip, said: “Here’s how I made 60 teacher appreciation gifts for my 11 kids’ teachers!”
Whilst many parents will simply buy their child’s teacher a mug or a box of chocolates as an end-of-year gift, Alicia revealed that she likes to go the extra mile when it comes to her “teacher appreciation gifts”.
Alicia, a busy mum who wakes up at 4am to ensure that everything is in order for her children before they head off to school, then continued: “I found these skinny tumblers with straws in bulk on Amazon.”
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Sign up to loyalty schemes of the brands that you regularly shop with.
Big names regularly offer discounts or special lower prices for members, among other perks.
Sales are when you can pick up a real steal.
Retailers usually have periodic promotions that tie into payday at the end of the month or Bank Holiday weekends, so keep a lookout and shop when these deals are on.
Sign up to mailing lists and you’ll also be first to know of special offers. It can be worth following retailers on social media too.
When buying online, always do a search for money off codes or vouchers that you can use vouchercodes.co.uk and myvouchercodes.co.uk are just two sites that round up promotions by retailer.
Scanner apps are useful to have on your phone. Trolley.co.uk app has a scanner that you can use to compare prices on branded items when out shopping.
Bargain hunters can also use B&M’s scanner in the app to find discounts in-store before staff have marked them out.
And always check if you can get cashback before paying which in effect means you’ll get some of your money back or a discount on the item.
Not only this, but she also nabbed: “Coffee gift cards in bulk and Ghirardelli chocolates and some crinkle paper.”
For her DIY gift, Alicia filled the funky tumbler cups with a Starbucks gift card and some chocolates.
She then decorated the tumbler by adding some colourful tissue paper.
Thrilled with the teacher’s gifts, she beamed: “I love how these turned out. They were so simple to make.”
The TikTok clip, which was posted under the username @doughertydozen, has clearly left many totally stunned, as it has quickly gone viral and has since racked up a jaw-dropping 2.3 million views.
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