What Are Your Kids Making for Parent Gifts?

[lovemykidstoo]

I used to make/help make crafts with my dck's at least 2 times a week. I no longer bother. I started to see old crafts piled and destroyed in snowflakes back pack. One time I helped mom take her kids out to her car to leave as I was on my way out too. I saw crumbled up crafts on the floor of her car. Also, a lot of the things you have here Meeko.

I'm getting to that too. I just asked my dcg what she did with the wreath we made last night. She's 4 1/2 so she is not just making it up. She said I think it's in my room, I don't know. I said, mom didn't hang it up? No. grrrr Why bother. I've seen stuff in their car that we made weeks before etc. Yet this is a mom that lets him bring color sheets so he can color. So she wants him doing stuff like that, but then doesn't do anything with it once he does.

[Cat Herder]

"What are your kids making for parent gifts?"

Nothing.

They are painting, drawing and coloring art for our classroom walls. The school ager is drafting his letter to Santa, though. ::

I bought the DCK's Christmas presents, put them under the classroom tree, filled their stockings and we will be having a party on the last day of care before I close.

The majority of the DCK's who will no call/no show that day after confirming they will be here (as happens every year) will simply take their gift/stocking home the first day they come back and my DH will eat their red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.

[Unregistered]

As a parent, life gets in the way and getting several crafts that you simply don't value becomes a chore to manage.

Can I just say, of all the crafts, I don't want my child's footprint with a teacher's hand-drawn antlers, eyes and nose. My child didn't make that or have that idea or anything.

As a teacher, I wouldn't give a parent my art unless it was my own mom Since I'm no Picasso, no parent would want my art other than my mom. So why draw on kid's art? It makes no sense.

I stick with process art. The child has the process/ the experience. I don't make things for parents. The plants I had the children pot and bring home was an activity for the kids, as well as something the kids can give to their parents. So there ya go. It's a plant. I have such a distaste for adult planned and created and adjusted (!) Kid art. And probably many dcparents do too. Aaaaand probably many love that stuff. I concede we all have different opinions.

Wow, I am a parent too. My kids have brought home many crafts. I never trashed them or just thought it ****ed. I am sorry you don't like adult planned art for kids. Maybe you should find a new career.

[Blackcat31]

Wow, I am a parent too. My kids have brought home many crafts. I never trashed them or just thought it ****ed. I am sorry you don't like adult planned art for kids. Maybe you should find a new career.

Oh for the love of all things child care....
why does someone need to find a new career every time they have a differing opinion?

[Aussiedaycare]

Wow, I am a parent too. My kids have brought home many crafts. I never trashed them or just thought it ****ed. I am sorry you don't like adult planned art for kids. Maybe you should find a new career.

I have four children - if I kept every piece of paper they scribbled on I would be featuring on hoarders - but sure daycare is so obviously not the career for me ::::

[Unregistered]

I have four children - if I kept every piece of paper they scribbled on I would be featuring on hoarders - but sure daycare is so obviously not the career for me ::::

I have 3 kids. No I do not hoard their crafts. I do not leave them in their back packs or let them get stomped on or ripped up either. I keep them awhile then they go by by. But I try to respect the crafts, ect.5 ......at least for awhile.

[Aussiedaycare]

I have 3 kids. No I do not hoard their crafts. I do not leave them in their back packs or let them get stomped on or ripped up either. I keep them awhile then they go by by. But I try to respect the crafts, ect.5 ......at least for awhile.

Thats excellent, I also respect my children's craft while I have them as does Calcare I'm assuming as she did not state anything to contradict that in her post - so I guess day-care is the job for her and me after all

[megoddess444]

Big fat NOTHING!

[CalCare]

https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs...rt-experiencesHehe yes, you're right! I should find a new career. What a fool I am to agree with the NAEYC! 😆😆😆

[flying_babyb]

We dont as a center do anything. I chose to do with my class (5 months to 1.5 years) handprints in white on red paper, cut inyo a mitten, fingers painted into snowmen with a snowman poem on the back. Laminated them snd put a hole in for ornaments. Did one of each hand so two per kid. Same poem. Figure any divorces can give one to dad.

[Unregistered]

https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs...rt-experiencesHehe yes, you're right! I should find a new career. What a fool I am to agree with the NAEYC! 😆😆😆

Ha ha ha ha.......ya. You seem to be a good fit for a career as a prison guard or maybe a bus driver.

[Cat Herder]

Both process art and heirloom art have a place in childcare.

One is about the child's creativity the other is about engagement.

Both are valuable.

If some parents don't appreciate the effort either takes and what their child gets out of it, that is on them.

Being on trend is no more valuable than being traditional. Both have merit and purpose.

Trends change every few years. NAEYC was founded in 1926. Raising children has been going on since the beginning of time.

[Blackcat31]

Ha ha ha ha.......ya. You seem to be a good fit for a career as a prison guard or maybe a bus driver.

Why are you such an a-hole?

I wasn't going to ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be your head isn't screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that your shoes are too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
Might just be that your heart is two sizes too small.


Hoping the magic of the Christmas season finds it's way into your heart. lovethis

[lovemykidstoo]

Why are you such an a-hole?

I wasn't going to ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be your head isn't screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that your shoes are too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
Might just be that your heart is two sizes too small.


Hoping the magic of the Christmas season finds it's way into your heart. lovethis

love it!! Some people just have such issues and have to inflict it on others.

[Jo123ABC]

We are doing these little mouse footprints with a quote from the night before Christmas book. The lights are their thumbprints. For families with one child we used 8 by 10 canvas. For families with more than one child we used a size larger.

Next week we will probably make styrofoam cups into reindeer for an art project. Our Christmas party will consist of making sugar cookies and listening to Christmas music/watching Christmas movies.