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The end of August is a mixed blessing for most school children. The carefree days of summer are coming to end, but the thought of a new school year is exciting.
Make the end of summer vacation more fun for your child with a back-to-school celebration.
Fun Invitations for a Back-to-School Party include:
- report card style
- homework assignment style (your first assignment of the school year is to come to this party and have a great time)
- large red apple, yellow school bus, or #2 pencil cutouts
- buy inexpensive notebooks or note pads and write invitation on cover or front page
- tape or tie a fun pencil to invitation
Fun Decorations for a Back-to-School Party include:
- balloons and streamers in red, yellow, and black or school colors
- large paper cut outs in the shape of apples, school buses, numbers and letters
- real apples, big piles of books, globes and maps
Fun Games & Activities for a Back-to-School Party include:
- 20 questions
- bingo
- dodge ball
- drawing games
- Simon says
- twister
- relay races
- get ready for school race pack lunch bag, collect homework, put on back pack, run to "school house")
- paper airplane contest
- back-to-school wordsearch
- dream teacher fantasy (each child draws and describes his/her dream teacher)
- show a classic school-themed movie to older children, such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Never Been Kissed, or the Dead Poet's Society.
You could even schedule the party like a school day and ring a bell between the following sessions... home room (arriving), PE (games & activities), Art (arts & crafts), recess (free play), and lunch time (refreshments).
Creative Arts & Crafts ideas for a Back-to-School Party include:
- book marks
- clay modeling
- collage
- painting
- origami
- shrinky dink
Fun Foods for a Back-to-School Party include the following lunch box favorites:
- peanut butter & jelly sandwiches
- string cheese
- pudding or applesauce cups
- grapes
- baby carrots
- chocolate chip cookie
- juice boxes
- school bus cupcakes
Pack the party foods in individual brown lunch bags and write each quest's name on his/her lunch bag.
Fun Party Favors for a Back-to-School Party include:
- crayons
- pencils
- erasers
- note pads
- folders
- glitter pens
- stencils
- pencil box
- pencil sharpener
- rulers
Special Resources for a Back-to-School Party include:
- Shindigz.com
- Celebrate Express
- Kids' Party Fun Directory (entertainment, rentals, and places)
- Kids Domain Back to School craft ideas
- Amazon Back-to-School K-12 Store
- Alphabet coloring pages
- Back-to-School coloring pages
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