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My children. Attend a Catholic school and this Christmas wish to give each student a gift.

I am looking for suggestions that won’t cost a whole lot. We already have a treat craft idea but They want a wrapped gift. There Are 140 kids in the school so I can’t spend $10 on each child.

Any suggestions would be awesome

Thank you!!
 
Each child is giving each student a gift? I nay have read this wrong, but that’s 140 gifts for each child to take home.

In our children’s schools they do advent angel. They give little treat on friday, and a gift at the end. Each child picks one name.

If your children wants o give each child a gift. I would limit to the class.
 
mommy_k said:
Each child is giving each student a gift? I nay have read this wrong, but that’s 140 gifts for each child to take home.

In our children’s schools they do advent angel. They give little treat on friday, and a gift at the end. Each child picks one name.

If your children wants o give each child a gift. I would limit to the class.
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Yeah.

Trust me–it’s a sweet idea, but the kids get enough Christmas and end-of-year loot as it is. Just do your kids’ class, consulting with the teachers.
 
How about an inexpensive Advent calendar given out just before Advent?
 
mommy_k said:
Each child is giving each student a gift? I nay have read this wrong, but that’s 140 gifts for each child to take home.

In our children’s schools they do advent angel. They give little treat on friday, and a gift at the end. Each child picks one name.

If your children wants o give each child a gift. I would limit to the class.
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No my children want to give a gift to each child in their school. The others probably and most likely won’t but my children want to. I encourage the giving spirit.
Even it is is something small. They love to give.
 
Their classes take up half the school.
It only goes to 5th grade

So throwing in a couple more of the smaller classes isn’t a big deal.

My kids are in the bigger classes.
 
How about holy cards? Go online and look at Autom- that have some very cheap gift ideas. I just bought 100 rosaries for $30- that’s another Idea.
 
I would see what the school policy is on this. I can a,ssure you they have one.
Did this come from the Administration?
Or some “helpful” fellow parent?
I’ve worked at Catholics schools. They do not want any collections taken up from anyone that could be considered a burden, unless it is a sacrifice for charity.
There are inevitably going to be comparisons made by those who go “all out, over the top” and those who give, as someone so beautifully suggested, holy cards depicting the Nativity or the Holy Child… But honestly, as DRE, I used to give those out myself, from their school.
Kids get lots of gifts. Do rather, candy in the shoes on St. Nicholas Day, or a gift from an angel tree to needy families, of which there are plenty. St. Vincent dePaul can give you a wish list of things great and small that other children have asked for. That’s not to say that the classes can’t have little Christmas parties in the cafeteria and the moms can bring treats and play music and do little games.
Marking the season of Christmas has little to do with gifts, unless the focus is on the Magi. Which happens when you return to school, most likely.

I’d find out where this request is coming from first.
Good luck!
 
Kristiana said:
My children. Attend a Catholic school and this Christmas wish to give each student a gift.

I am looking for suggestions that won’t cost a whole lot. We already have a treat craft idea but They want a wrapped gift. There Are 140 kids in the school so I can’t spend $10 on each child.

Any suggestions would be awesome

Thank you!!
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Sorry, just saw this last part.
With $1,400 bucks you can provide an incredible Christmas for a needy family.
 
pianistclare said:
I would see what the school policy is on this. I can a,ssure you they have one.
Did this come from the Administration?
Or some “helpful” fellow parent?
I’ve worked at Catholics schools. They do not want any collections taken up from anyone that could be considered a burden, unless it is a sacrifice for charity.
There are inevitably going to be comparisons made by those who go “all out, over the top” and those who give, as someone so beautifully suggested, holy cards depicting the Nativity or the Holy Child… But honestly, as DRE, I used to give those out myself, from their school.
Kids get lots of gifts. Do rather, candy in the shoes on St. Nicholas Day, or a gift from an angel tree to needy families, of which there are plenty. St. Vincent dePaul can give you a wish list of things great and small that other children have asked for. That’s not to say that the classes can’t have little Christmas parties in the cafeteria and the moms can bring treats and play music and do little games.
Marking the season of Christmas has little to do with gifts, unless the focus is on the Magi. Which happens when you return to school, most likely.

I’d find out where this request is coming from first.
Good luck!
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School says it is fine just as it was when they brought treats for the whole school during the fall festival week.
 
pianistclare said:
Sorry, just saw this last part.
With $1,400 bucks you can provide an incredible Christmas for a needy family.
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Nice to assume we do nothing.

For thanksgiving we have 2 families we buy a full meal for so they can celebrate without burden or worry and for Christmas just as every year we have adopted through the Salvation Army 2 families with children to give a wonderful Christmas.

With all the things we do for community that is why I won’t be spending 1,400 on the kids at the school.
I don’t see where you assumed I would.
I’m sorry that I didn’t go screaming from the mountain tops “HEY LOOK WHAT WE DO!!”

Matthew 6:3-4

I said I CANT do $10 per child.

I think I’ll just send an email to the ladies from our parish. They won’t be so "don’t be so charitable " as some of the few people I have met here. My girls wanted to keep it quietjust as they did the fall festival treats but perhaps letting a few mothers know won’t ruin it for them.

The whole concept was that no one but the Fathers and the principal were going to know who gifted. Which is why I came here.

Nice to know that to some my children’s want of giving is so terrible.

I would like to say THANK YOU deeply to the couple that did offer suggestions.

I may just one or both of those together. I don’t want to ruin the whole thing for my children by asking the mothers of the children they would be gifting to. It would kind of defeat the purpose of giving in secret.
 
We made candy cane ornaments with the candy cane prayer one year. We bought the candy cane ornaments at the dollar store and attached the prayer to it with velvet ribbon to make them nicer.
 
I like the idea of previous posters about the Advent calendars, Rosaries & Nativity Holy Cards. It keeps the gift in line with the true meaning of Christmas & does not break the bank. Yes, Autom has very good deals on bulk orders.
 
Kristiana said:
Nice to assume we do nothing.

For thanksgiving we have 2 families we buy a full meal for so they can celebrate without burden or worry and for Christmas just as every year we have adopted through the Salvation Army 2 families with children to give a wonderful Christmas.

With all the things we do for community that is why I won’t be spending 1,400 on the kids at the school.
I don’t see where you assumed I would.
I’m sorry that I didn’t go screaming from the mountain tops “HEY LOOK WHAT WE DO!!”

Matthew 6:3-4

I said I CANT do $10 per child.

I think I’ll just send an email to the ladies from our parish. They won’t be so "don’t be so charitable " as some of the few people I have met here. My girls wanted to keep it quietjust as they did the fall festival treats but perhaps letting a few mothers know won’t ruin it for them.

The whole concept was that no one but the Fathers and the principal were going to know who gifted. Which is why I came here.

Nice to know that to some my children’s want of giving is so terrible.

I would like to say THANK YOU deeply to the couple that did offer suggestions.

I may just one or both of those together. I don’t want to ruin the whole thing for my children by asking the mothers of the children they would be gifting to. It would kind of defeat the purpose of giving in secret.
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Pretty defensive for someone who said none of that in the initial post.

You said nothing about “Secrecy”, nothing about other charitable works, nothing about the real method they are asking.

Maybe next time, frame the original post better???
God bless your efforts.
But don’t assume that you were blasted. You came for advice, I offered some.
Take it or leave it. 🤷
 
tawny said:
I like the idea of previous posters about the Advent calendars, Rosaries & Nativity Holy Cards. It keeps the gift in line with the true meaning of Christmas & does not break the bank. Yes, Autom has very good deals on bulk orders.
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Great deals at St. Paul Street Evangelization. I get all my saint medals there. Holy cards too.
PM me if you want the web address or prices
 
mommy_k said:
We made candy cane ornaments with the candy cane prayer one year. We bought the candy cane ornaments at the dollar store and attached the prayer to it with velvet ribbon to make them nicer.
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I agree about going to one of your local dollar store for inexpensive items, too. I was also going to suggest that.

You can get some really nice items there. 🙂
 
As a teacher I buy my students a gift each Christmas…last year I included a book entitled Celebrate the Season by Diane M. Lynch…it’s a collection of 12 stories about Advent and Christmas…I teach grade 2 in a Catholic school and last year, all the primary teachers did the same…I get them from Pauline Books (run by the Pauline sisters) and they’re $3 Canadian so they should be cheaper in the US…here’s a link to one source I found online but you may find others…my students loved them and I bought one copy for my classroom library as well… alibris.com/Celebrate-the-Season-Cqr-Diane-M-Lynch/book/26403474
 
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