Teacher Gifts

Pay attention, class – our lecture on the top-ranking teacher gift ideas is about to begin! However, we’ve done our best to make this workshop as interactive as possible. Each of the images on the page above represents one of our Independent Creators’ best gifts for teachers: they’re templates which you can adapt and manipulate to produce something unique. Some of our bestselling items are marked with a yellow star and an ‘Editor’s Pick’ label, and a few particularly successful stores are visible at the top of the screen. You can also use the drop-down menus a little further down to isolate certain types of products and departments. Finally, if you were to give us a pop quiz on our customers’ most popular personalized teacher gifts, here are the search pages we’d submit as our answer:

• Teacher T-Shirts: Jokes about math, science and history abound here. Choose a funny t-shirt for the teacher in your life and upgrade their outfit.
• Teacher Mugs: Even the most stoic and determined teachers will find it hard to face Monday morning with the kids from Room 402. Perk them up with these high-quality coffee mugs!
• Teacher Tote Bags: A cute tote for teachers will aid your favourite educator with carrying all those exam papers, textbooks and school supplies.
• End-of-Year Teacher Cards: Farewell for another year (or perhaps forever, if you’re transitioning to middle school, high school or university). Thank a teacher for their hard work and support with these sweet, meaningful cards.
• Teacher Notebooks: An academic can never have enough notebooks! You could even include a poignant quote or a class photo on the cover.

Now that you’ve seen all our unique teacher gifts, we have a little bit of homework for you: to either customize a pre-existing template or to create a brand new design of your own. The answers aren’t at the back of the book this time, but the set of step-by-step instructions below will walk you through the entire process. If you have any questions, you can simply raise your hand (or, in other words, click the ‘Help’ button on the left-hand side of the design interface).

• Step 1: Select a design you like and click on its thumbnail to be taken to the product page. This is where your project begins! If you didn’t find what you were looking for on our teachers’ pages, you can also view our full range of gifts.
• Step 2: Once you're on the product page, choose a desired size, shape or material. Depending on the gift, these options may vary slightly.
• Step 3: Click on 'Personalise' and 'Edit Using Design Tool.' You can then add images and text elements using Zazzle's design interface – this is where you'll add your own personal touch to your product!
• Step 4: Click 'Done' and see your final design! Congratulations – you’ve graduated summa cum laude from Zazzle University. To collect your diploma (your order, that is), move the item to your cart. Then input your payment and shipping information, and we can get to work on manufacturing your custom-made, A++ design! Finally, you can create completely one-of-a-kind teacher-to-teacher gifts in our custom gifts hub. There are no pre-established elements here, so you can really let your imagination go wild!

The most important thing you can put on an end-of-year teacher gift is a simple, genuine thank you. Whether the recipient provided you with encouragement and support through a difficult time or helped to foster your love of a particular subject, you should acknowledge their influence and explain, briefly, how much it meant. However, there are thousands of quotes out there about the importance of teaching as a profession, and so if you can’t find the words yourself, you can always cite someone else. For example, Albert Einstein ("It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge") or George Lucas ("Teachers are the most important individuals in our society – nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education"). Finally, you could always upload a photo of your class or school to the gift, lending it another personal touch.