Teachers' treasures

Some gifts from students are simply priceless

By Laura Sessions Stepp
Washington Post Staff Writer

Lexi Derrickson, a Bethesda third-grader, labored for hours over her teacher's Christmas present this year. Scratch cookies made from all the good stuff -- flour, sugar, butter, chocolate chips, peanut butter and almonds -- are not that easy to stir, she discovered, especially if you're staying with your dad on weekends and he doesn't have 'one of those blender things.'

Oh, the anticipation -- and agony -- of baking, sewing, painting or buying a Christmas present for your teacher. Shaping candy cane ornaments out of flour, sugar and salt, snowmen out of buttons, reindeer out of pipe cleaners. Or standing in the shopping mall before endless shelves of bath products, completely overwhelmed by the sheer variety of soaps, oils and powders.

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