• Nursery school, preschool and daycare teachers spend not only their days involved with their students, but often their weekends and evenings as well, preparing for lessons for the coming days. A small token of your appreciation for their time and commitment can go a long way to showing your appreciation as well as brightening the day of the teacher. Showing you are involved in your child's education and are interested in showing your appreciation to their teacher can be both inspiring and motivating.
  
  

Coffee

• Coffee can go a long way in the morning to help teachers start their day, which for nursery school teachers can start around five in the morning, and keep them focused and alert. A gift card to a local coffee shop could add an enjoyable perk to their morning where they could splurge on a gourmet cup of coffee. A coffee and tea gift basket can also become both a useful and enjoyable choice. Buy a pound of gourmet ground coffee and assemble it with a pretty coffee mug, an assortment of teas and even some hot chocolate and marshmallows to round out the gift.
  
  

Spa Day

• Chasing little children around the classroom, sitting on the floor for story time and crouching down to assist with art projects can wreak havoc on a nursery school teacher's muscles as well as her manicure. A gift certificate to a local spa for a massage or manicure and pedicure can soothe her aching body as well as give her some much needed time to herself. A professional manicure also gives her a better chance to preserve a colorful nail polish design than doing it herself would, as nail salons carry many products to prevent chipping.
  
  

Supplies

• Budgets can become tight at many schools, including nursery schools and day cares. With the tightening of budgets comes a lack of new classroom items and tools such as books, craft supplies and decorations. Assemble a basket full of useful and fun items a nursery school teacher may not have access to outside of her own wallet. This could include new storybooks, alphabet decorations, educational posters, construction paper, new crayons and markers, clay, child-safe scissors and glue sticks. These could help brighten a teacher's day and expand upon her planned curriculum, benefiting your child as well in the long run.