Mine are out of elementary school now, so I don't have to deal with it anymore. Yours is a little overboard IMO. We did similar things. I just bought a carnation at the grocery store for I think $3 - the point was that everyone brought a flower to put together in a bouquet. We also did the can of her favorite pop and the candy bar. Once one room mom did the alphabet - every kid was assigned a letter and you had to bring something in that started with that letter - that was pretty cool. The kids always made a card on one day. They seemed to enjoy that. Ours was never too bad that I recall. They never asked us to send more because someone else didn't. What they would request was to send it what you wanted between $3-$5 or some amount - giving you a range, then they bought what they had money for (not pick an amount and expect everyone to get there).

Lisa

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