10 Ways Kids Can Thank Their Leaders

Christmas is coming and many of us take advantage of the season by giving gifts of appreciation.

Your child might want to do that for his/her Awana leader and you need some inexpensive ideas.

Here are some gifts that are inexpensive in cost, but have great value in meaning.

1. Why not get together with other parents and make t-shirts for the leaders? Each child puts his handprint on the shirt and signs his name. Use brightly-colored fabric paint for the prints.

2. A similar gift would be making mugs for the leaders. Each child signs his/her name with a permanent marker on the mug. A leader with good handwriting could add the recepients’ names.

3. Your child could make a card and/or write a thank-you note to the leader and list some specific things he likes about him/her.

4. Again, get together with other parents and make a giant card for each leader. Each of the clubbers signs the cards.

5. Work with your child to write a poem of appreciation for his/her leader.

6. Do an acrostic of the leader’s name. Have your child come up with a charcter trait that matches each letter.

For instance – M is for magnificent fun. E is for encouranging me. G is for great Large Group lesson giver.

Have your child make the acrostic into a colorful poster.

7. Work with your child to design a creative thank-you candy wrapper to be attached to a real candy bar.
(You can find these on the web if you do not want to make your own.)

8. Have your child design the cover of a small scrapbook with the words “Quote book.” The leader can use the book to write down favorite verses, funny things a clubber says or moments she doesn’t want to forget.

9. Invite the leader (and his/her family) to your house for supper. Let your child choose and help cook the meal.

10. Give a small gift with a cleverly written attached card. 

A packet of seeds – “Thanks for helping me blossom this year.”

A box of Good and Plenty candy – “Thanks for being a GOOD leader with PLENTY of great ideas.”

Some post-it notes – “Thanks for STICKING with me and encouraging me.”

Offer your child some ideas, but then see what they come up with. Kids can be very creative and they might figure out the exactly-right way to thank their leader.