We love to create teacher wish lists at Cheddar Up. It means our favorite season (the beginning of a school year) is here, and we get to help spoil all your amazing teachers . Teachers personally pay for the majority of their classroom needs, and it adds up, especially for those first-year teachers.
Using Cheddar Up to create your teacher’s dream wish lists, and get them filled, will help ensure a successful school year.
Here are just a few teacher wish list ideas to start you off.
What are the nice-to-have items that may not be considered “basic” supplies? Think: ink cartridges, headphones, tablet cases, plastic tubs for organizing, table and desk organizers.
If money were no object, what would your teachers love to have in their classrooms? For this wish list, you could ask parents to donate money instead of picking an item.
What are the most-requested teacher wish list items? The basics you’d expect — pencils, markers, boxes of tissues, and rulers — and also these fun ones:
Our payment + forms power duo is ideal for collecting the abundance of money and information — and our automatic reporting tracks it with little-to-no effort from you.
You can use Cheddar Up collections to create and fulfill teacher wish lists. (You can easily customize a wish list for sports teams, clubs, organizations and troops too!) Even if you already have a system, switching to our platform could help:
The specific process we outline here does not disclose individual lists — rather, it reflects the total quantities requested across the faculty. This eliminates disparity between classes that exceed their teacher wish lists and those that don’t get fulfilled. It also allows you to include admin and support staff.
Know when teacher wish lists are complete and know what’s left to purchase. There’s always that one classroom of parents who choose the exact same item.
With this system, parents pay at selection time, and you’re the one who places the order — no concern about an item being chosen but never making it to school.
1. Add items from a predetermined supply list. Examples: dry-erase marker packs, white foam board, sticky notes, hand sanitizer, black ballpoint pens, red ballpoint pens.
2. Set each item’s “Exact Amount” to $0.
3. Under “Advanced Settings”, toggle on the quantity selector.
4. Save and send the unique URL (plus a due date 😉) to teachers and staff to make their selections.
5. Instruct them to “Add to cart” each item they want, specify the quantity when prompted, and submit once they’ve made all their choices.
6. You may choose to close this collection after the deadline. (You can always manually input orders if you have late requests.)
