As a long time teacher, my favorite gifts were plates of homemade cookies, fudge, and those Christmas ornaments that were homemade and FLAT! The flat ornaments were on my wall as decoration on our ornament tree (can't have the tree but nobody said I couldn't put up the ornaments in the SHAPE of a tree). My childrens' teachers loved our handmade boxes (wallpaper) filled with 4-6 pieces of fudge. If you do the decoration, be sure to label it with first and last name along with the year. Trust me, it matters.