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Is anyone else in disbelief that we are getting closer and closer to summer break? Even though my boys aren’t officially in “school”, we have several home school preschool type activities that they’re involved in and each one is starting to come to a close for the school year.
This has me thinking about simple and fun end of school year activities to celebrate the end of school and the start of summer!
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End of School Year Activities for Preschool & Kindergarten
Today, I’m sharing 7 end of year activities for preschool and kindergarten that you can do to celebrate a year complete with your kids. This list is specifically for things you can do with your kids at home.
That said, these ideas can easily be used more officially in the classroom for end of school year parties and activities if you want!
Countdown the Days
Create a paper chain or mark off days on the calendar to countdown to the last day of school! You can make it a fun “event” each morning. It’s a great way to practice counting and creates a fun addition to your morning routine.
You can even use it as some incentive to get through parts of the regular morning routine. Allow your kids to mark the day off or tear the paper chain link after they’ve finished breakfast, or brushed teeth, etc.
Take a Last Day of School Photo
Everyone takes a first day of school photo. So why not take a last day of school photo, too? Put the first and last day photos side by side and see how much your child has grown!
Create a School Portfolio
Gather up all those crafts and writing assignments from the year, choose your favorites and add them to a binder to keep. Your child will love reviewing some of the work they did over the year and it will be a fun way to see how far they’ve come in just a year!
End of the School Year Interview
We do an interview with our kids on each of their birthdays, but this would also be a fun way to celebrate the end of the school year. Ask questions about your child’s favorite memories from the year, what they want to be when they grown up, favorite foods, activities, song, something they’ve learned, etc.
For more fun, ask the same questions each year to see how their answers change over time.
Go Out for a Special Treat
I don’t know about you, but my boys are ALWAYS up for a special treat. And with the warm weather of [almost] summer, a special trip to an ice cream shop is the perfect way to bid farewell to the school year and hello to summer break!
Create a Summer Bucket List
What better way to celebrate the start of summer than creating a summer bucket list of all the fun things you want to do while school is out? Be sure to include family trips you’re looking forward to or even something as simple as trips to the playground.
Announce it To The World (or at least your friends and family)
Finally, if you’ve got a special graduate at the end of the school year (and yes, preschool and kindergarten graduates count, too!), creating special announcements to send to friends and family is a great way to celebrate the end of the year!
Perhaps you just want to announce it to friends and family or you’re planning to celebrate with a graduation party for your little one, Basic Invite will help you create an announcement that is able to be almost entirely customized to your style and something that you’ll be able to keep in a memory box for years.
Basic Invite makes it so easy and stress free to customize graduation invitations. With over 180 colors to choose from, you can customize each detail of the card to your liking. They’ve even got templates for graduation invitations that are specific to preschool and kindergarten. If you want to include a photo (or two or four), there are lots of graduation invitation templates with photos, too. They’ll even let you order an individual sample of your invitation or announcement before placing a full order to be sure it’s just how you want it.
And, my favorite part? They make collecting addresses an absolute breeze. We all know there’s a lot going on at the end of the school year – and the last thing you want to be doing is worrying about having correct addresses. They’ll give you a unique link you can share on social media to request addresses and collect them for you.
This is a MAJOR time saver (this also works with holiday cards, I’m just saying…).
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How do you celebrate the end of the school year? Do you have any fun traditions with your kids? Will you have a special graduate this year?
I love the end of the year interview! It’s so fun to look back years later and see where you pictured yourself (even so young!)
Paper invites are always so fun to give and receive! And how is it almost the end of the school year??
Those invitations are BEAUTIFUL!
This list is great! Those invitations look so pretty too. I love that you can order samples too! I can’t tell you how many times I have boughten 50+ cards that I wasn’t thrilled with. They can look so different when you print them out. Putting this in my back pocket for next years pre-school graduation (GASP) why do they grow up so fast!