end of the year activities
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Friday Freebie – Graduation Countdown
Happy Friday! If your spring has been anything like mine, the weeks just keep getting crazier. I’m looking forward to slowing down a bit, but that probably won’t happen until Memorial Day! One things for sure, there are a few celebrations to get through before I can take a break. This week I shared a TON of ideas for graduation celebrations. Today’s freebie is a fun way to help your kiddos look forward to the big day. This Countdown to Graduation set from Maria Manore Gavin is an easy way for you to answer the never ending question: “How much longer until we graduate?!” If you’re planning a graduation ceremony,…
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Graduation keepsakes for your students
Preschool graduation is one of those special occasions that you want to mark with a keepsake, especially because many your kiddos won’t actually remember it 10 years from now. I’ve rounded up a few fun ideas that won’t break your budget! Have you been keeping journals all year long? (Preschool Daze has a great how-to) Ask your students if you can write them a letter in their journals and send them home at graduation. Download my End of the Year Memory Books and help your students fill in their memories. Bind them with each child’s portfolio pages or work samples for a one-of-a-kind gift. Makes shirts for each student, they…
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It’s THAT time
It doesn’t matter when Easter or your Spring Break falls, whenever it is that you come back from that particular break – or long weekend, it inevitably dawns on you tit is now time to think about graduation. Whether you love it or hate it, preschool graduation (or even end of the year parties) tend to be quite the production. It’s the perfect time to showcase all of the hard work that the children have done throughout the year but organizing and displaying said work is, in itself, a lot of work! One of my most popular posts is Everything You Need to Host a Preschool Graduation, so I thought…
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Alphabet book keepsakes
I’ve started thinking about our annual preschool graduation, and I have a couple of different ideas up my sleeve, but one thing that I always like to incorporate is a keepsake that shows how much the children have learned. This year my kiddos are going to create alphabet books with their own illustrations for each letter. We started working on them last week, doing a couple of letters whenever we get a chance. So far they are absolutely adorable. They are really putting a lot of effort into their books, and some of the illustrations that they have come up with are hilarious. When they get stuck I pull out…
