After I had already given up hope that a gift would make it all the way to Germany, I set my status to "gift not received".

You can imagine my surprise when the very next day the German customs contacted and informed me that there was a parcel waiting for me. It only took one more day until it arrived at my school. I opened it with my students and they found a huge amount of crayon packages inside. They were really excited and happy and said that they could not wait to try them out.

Just after the school ended, a parent came by the class and told me that he picked up another parcel for me. I thought that he made a mistake, since I already opened it earlier that day. But he proved me wrong, there was a second parcel waiting for me. This second parcel contained 20!! canvases. This is absolutely amazing. I already have plenty ideas of what the students can do with them and I think that I will let them prepare some Christmas gifts for their parents.

I am very very grateful to the kind redditor that made the effort to send those parcels all the way from the US to Germany. School could not have started better after the Autumn holidays.