What is the most bizarre/humorous Christmas gift you have ever received from a piano student?
I asked a similar question to our facebook followers a couple of days ago. I was not expecting the responses I received. Within an hour of the facebook post, Trevor and I were practically rolling on the floor in hysterics at some of the answers.
So, to help bring a little Christmas cheer we simply had to bring that very same question to our readers at TeachPianoToday.com.
In the comments below, please tell us all about the most humorous/ bizarre Christmas gift you have ever received from a piano student. The person that brings us closest to “wetting” ourselves will win one free product of their choice from the TeachPianoToday Store (excluding WunderKeys).
The contest will be closed to entries tonight at midnight (December 20, 2012 PST)
Go ahead… make us laugh… 🙂
Denise Thompson says
I have a 6 year old student who came in beaming and said I have a present for you. In his hand was an empty Pringles potato chip can. He said it was a musical instrument because the pieces of chips made a sound when you shook it. He then said that he had worked hard making it for me by eating the chips and that I should share it with my other students. I loved my homemade gift!
Tara Johnson says
Sometimes…. you have to wonder WHERE the mother’s are! No, joke, just the other day one of my 9 year old girls brought me a baggie with an open (and rather beat up looking) tootsie pop lolly pop in it! She claims that she opened it and then remembered that I liked them so she brought it to me! Ummmm…. Sorry! NO WAY am I eating that one! I’m pretty brave but… no longer in it’s original wrapping! YIKES.
I am SURE this one won’t win as it isn’t so much funny as GROSS! Oh, well. It’s the thought that counts! 🙂
Have a WONDERFUL Christmas!
Jan says
One boy gave me packages of cat treats! Yum!
Joyce says
Well, my story is not the gift but the after thought of the student. I have a “store” in my studio and students get “piano dollars” for bringing in 3 items to replenish the store….anyway, I get a lovely present of a little cute cutting board and a notepad and pen (all 3 wrapped together) from a 6 year old charming boy…I gush all over it. After a few minutes, he looks at me and says “can I get a piano dollar for bring you that”? It floored me for a while – of course we had to have the discussion if he brought that for me because he wanted to or because he wanted a piano dollar (you know, it’s the mom in the teacher-lol)
Melene says
When I was still a student and in high school, my mom found panties with small music notes all over them and we gave them to my teacher for Christmas. I was a little embarrassed, but she was known for having music symbols on as many things as she possibly could in her house and on her clothing.
Angela says
lol! that’s a good one!
Victoria says
Body butter….
Marilyn Wade says
I had a wonderful dog who used to run out the door when one particular piano student arrived for his lesson. The dog would make a bee-line out the door and was running freely and joyfully. I would take a single wrapped piece of cheese from Kraft, like for sandwiches, and wave it in the air, and my dog would come running back. So this piano student gave me an entire package of Kraft single wrapped cheese slices for Christmas – it was great!
Beth says
Last year one of my student brought me my gift. When I opened it, it revealed a nice gift set with shampoo, lotion and conditioner made especially for “women of color”. I am very white, and as I opened it my student commented that her mom knew that I was not a women of color but that she did not realize what she had purchased until she had gotten home, and she still gave it to me. Needless to say, I was a little leary of the gift she handed me this year, but it was just some peach pomegranate bath wash:)
Carly Porter says
Fake eyelashes….. I have a group of 4th graders in the same class at school. They told me, “Miss porter you need these so you can attract a husband”. Seriously?! Maybe they will work.. I love how involved in my personal life my students are. Another student the same day brought me a picture frame with a picture of me on one side and an empty slot next to it.. for my future husband. hah!
Emily Bass says
One year one of my sweet little boy student gave me a “deluxe” fart machine…….. kinda left me speechless…..
Rebecca Brown says
Bahahaha!
Nancy says
No need to speak! Lol!
Mary says
Actually, this was a very good thing-Yesterday a student brought me a ziploc bag full of homemade potato lefse-some may think strange, but I thought wonderful!
Eleanor Baldwin says
I had a boy whose father worked for agri-con. He came to the Christmas party with a brown paper grocery bag filled with food. He gave it to me and said “Here’s your bag. My Dad gets this stuff free!” It’s been over 20 years that I was blessed with child but the memory lingers on.
Jeannie Myers says
I always gave an apple and an orange. Dustin has a very good memory and last year — his third year — knew what he was going to get from me. Well, he brought in this gift in a square box and asked me to open it. It was a baseball. He then told me that at school this year, they got to ‘trade’ gifts and he would like to ‘trade’ me.
Jen says
Okay, more about the presents I give. Before having children, I always made a Christmas craft for my students and they were usually Christmas tree ornaments that were musically inclined. Now with limited time on my hands (my boys are 4 and 2), I’ve just been giving out Christmas cards and candy canes (it’s the thought that counts, right?). When I handed one of my little boy students his card and candy cane, he groaned and said, “not another candy cane!” Bah, Humbug!
Barb Grout says
This year I received a very beautiful bag with a homemade construction paper Christmas ornament from older brother and at the bottom under tissue paper a rock painted blue with sparkly pink sprinkles and a skeleton head stamped on the rock with jewels for eyes!!!
Wow!!!! The little sister out-did her brother
!!!!
Holly Valencia says
LOL I had a blast reading these. Last year, one of my students gave me a POTATOE. And I scratched my head thinking…WHHYY????? She even put a pretty ribbon around it! She later told me it represented “versatility”. haha Clever girl. It’s still kind of an enigma to me. I was thinking, “Is it because you can mash it? Bake it? Make fries? etc.” Definitely the most unique gift. 😉
Nancy says
Sounds like a gifted child to me!
Nancy says
Breathmints. Point taken!! ; )
Rebecca Brown says
Haha! Reminds me of a year when my daughter (who was in 1st grade then) insisted on giving her teacher hand lotion for Christmas. Not the pretty smelly kind, but the really heavy duty stuff. Apparently, that teacher had very dry skin, and it creeped my daughter out when she touched her.
jen says
so….what if i don’t actually know what it was? it was a plate of food. there were strange crackers that didn’t taste like any normal crackers. there was something that looked like yummy baking…like squares and cookies…but they weren’t sweet or yummy. and on this plate were unfamiliar nuts (like, how is it that i’ve never seen those nuts before?) and the piece de resistance, these dried mushrooms that literally tasted like dirt. my husband and i were laughing so hard and daring each other to try this and that…..and we pretty much just spat everything out anyway. it was pretty funny. and pretty bad. i absolutely hate wasting food, but man. that was a little much….
Rebekah says
Just thought I would pass on a little Christmas cheer even though the 20th has passed. My student came in (a girl, about 8) with a “package” wrapped in toilet paper with a crayon-scribbled “Merry Christmas”. I tried not to laugh when I opened it to find a sock puppet! Not just any sock puppet, but a homemade sock puppet with one eye and 4 strands of yarn for the hair. She told me its name was Larry and that she was very sorry her dad didn’t have any CLEAN socks, but that that one ‘smelled alright’. I really had to change the subject fast so that I wouldn’t laugh at her! Merry Christmas!
Rebekah says
P.S. The hair was held on by a fine piece of Scotch tape. 🙂
Melinda says
This made me really laugh!! Last Christmas was the first year I didn’t get any gifts from students, but I also was not on the ball enough to get a gift to them! My husband took pictures of everyone while they performed at the Christmas recital and we were going to send everyone the image as a gift, but my husband’s schedule got in the way of his editing and we went out of town…..maybe end of the school year will bring me something funny!
Rebecca Brown says
Oh, my goodness! There really should be a “like” button on these comments! Hilarious!