Fun, cheap birthday gift ideas?
May 29, 2018 3:42 AM Subscribe
My partner will be a staff member at a summer camp this year, with an hour-long bus ride in both directions each day tending to the kiddies. Help me pick a cheap/fun gift to make the rides or days more enjoyable.
This summer plan is definitely not my idea of fun, but she's a teacher so for sure her pain threshold is higher. What is fun for me is that her birthday comes right before the camp starts, so I get to buy her a present to make the days and drives a bit more pleasant. Suggestions?
(Details: decade-plus as a middle school educator; ~$10-30 on Amazon, unless awesome. Complications: as a bus chaperone, noise-cancelling headphones/cones of silence are probably not the right idea.)
This summer plan is definitely not my idea of fun, but she's a teacher so for sure her pain threshold is higher. What is fun for me is that her birthday comes right before the camp starts, so I get to buy her a present to make the days and drives a bit more pleasant. Suggestions?
(Details: decade-plus as a middle school educator; ~$10-30 on Amazon, unless awesome. Complications: as a bus chaperone, noise-cancelling headphones/cones of silence are probably not the right idea.)
Spare phone charger for reading on the phone when the kids are not requiring attention.
A really great hat, maybe a ball cap that you get embroidered SWMBO or something.
A bottle of her preferred alcohol and mixer - margarita mix & tequila, bloody Mary mix & vodka, etc., for when she gets home. Bonus points: make n "Emergency 1st Aid Kit" package for it.
Research camp songs in the Internet; she can be teaching kids funny songs, or maybe games to play on the bus. An hour commute is a drag for adults; it can be an eternity for bored kids.
Megaphone
If the bus has video, camp movies.
posted by theora55 at 7:52 AM on May 29, 2018
A really great hat, maybe a ball cap that you get embroidered SWMBO or something.
A bottle of her preferred alcohol and mixer - margarita mix & tequila, bloody Mary mix & vodka, etc., for when she gets home. Bonus points: make n "Emergency 1st Aid Kit" package for it.
Research camp songs in the Internet; she can be teaching kids funny songs, or maybe games to play on the bus. An hour commute is a drag for adults; it can be an eternity for bored kids.
Megaphone
If the bus has video, camp movies.
posted by theora55 at 7:52 AM on May 29, 2018
Is this an outside camp? I'd like a great sunscreen, but I'm really picky about that, so YMMV.
posted by Ms Vegetable at 8:48 AM on May 29, 2018
posted by Ms Vegetable at 8:48 AM on May 29, 2018
A book. I've been a bus chaperone several times and it's possible to get some reading in. I remember on one middle school trip I read David Lebovitz's The Sweet Life in Paris.
posted by loveandhappiness at 8:49 AM on May 29, 2018
posted by loveandhappiness at 8:49 AM on May 29, 2018
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posted by seanmpuckett at 4:15 AM on May 29, 2018