Easy Gifts for Your Students - Give Books!

If you're in the US, school is almost over, and gifting is on the brain. Here's a simple gift idea. Investment of time... fifteen minutes. Added bonus? You are about to clear off a shelf (or a box, a sterilite drawer, or whatever!)

If you are like me, you collect childrens' books for classroom libraries, etc. Some books may be well loved, or ones that you ordered from your book club catalogs, but forgot to use, or they weren't books that were checked out from your classroom library very often. This makes your shelved cluttered. Today's tip: Let them go... to the students! Here's how it usually goes down for me: set out an old box of books. Say nothing about it, until a sweetheart asks about them. Then tell them to pick one book they are interested in, and see you for a label for their name, because they can keep the book. Forever and ever.

Seriously, no Pinterest involved. Grab some old labels and hand-write a little note. These were mine last year! I had 3 5th graders tell me they read the books over and over during the summer. Love it!

Are you out of school? Did you Pinterest the end of the year, or was it as harried and hectic as mine was? Do you even give student gifts?