Graduation, and Teacher Appreciation Gifts Ideas

It's the end of the school year.  Next to Christmas, this is probably the most expensive time of the year.  You need gifts for teachers, graduates, and perhaps even classmates that you and your children will miss.  The most difficult thing about this time of year is that we don't think to plan for it, so we find ourselves scrambling to come up with gifts to give at the last minute.

I like to give theme gifts this time of year.  By a theme gift, I mean something I can purchase all at once, in one store in multiples.  One year it may be t-shirts.  Another year it can be stationary sets.  This year it is chocolate

Chocolate makes great teacher appreciation gifts, especially if you purchase a  chocolate set with "thank you" emblazoned across the front. You can find graduation chocolate gift sets, a small variety box of chocolates to graduation cap boxes stuffed with candy.  Just be sure to slip some money into the package for the new graduate. Finally, for those friends who you will surely miss over the summer, hand out single chocolate bars with a heart felt note.