Last Day of School Ideas

Today is our first day of summer – we planned to go swimming all morning – and it’s pouring buckets and buckets of rain.  Bummer!
I wanted to pop in and tell you some fun ideas for the Last Day of School from yesterday…

Teacher Treats!
I sent each kiddo with a couple of packs of a giant cookie.  I LOVE these wrappers – it makes just a cookie seem so fancy.  I printed off the free Thank You teacher-ish circles from Dimple Prints.  They gave these to people like the bus driver, secretaries, art teacher, etc.

The chocolate chip cookies are GIANT – – like one of those “big cookies” that you can buy at a bakery.  Seriously – here are they fresh out of the oven – you can see how I can only fit 6 on a cookie sheet.  I got the recipe off of AllRecipes for Best Big Fat Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie.

Mascot Necklaces!
Next up, a little extra for their teachers.  I love to make them a Glass Tile Pendant each year using an image of the school mascot:

And then used these fun boxes I got at Pick Your Plum to package them.  I love having packaging and fun things like that on hand – it makes everything extra fabulous and it’s easy to do.  Speaking of, you can get awesome baking cups at Pick Your Plum today (affiliate link), 24 for only $2.55, if they haven’t sold out.  You’ll want some just to have on hand this summer!  

And for all of you that love “behind the scenes” glimpses, really, a picture looks awesome, but it doesn’t mean that the rest of my house does….

Next up, Autograph Shirts!!  I got this idea – including the exact fonts and design, over at Eighteen25.  Such a fun idea!  The only difference is that I put the decal on the front of the shirt so that the front wasn’t plain.  Everyone still signed the back.  I love how they’ve got their sharpies ready:

I made sure to sign it before they were all filled up!

Balloons!!
So I had the fun idea to have a path of helium balloons, tied onto rocks, leading from the bus stop to our house, with a giant balloon curtain to walk through at the end.  BUT, it was raining like crazy.  So I had to alter the plans! – party van to pick the kids up at the bus stop.  I bought several mylar balloons at the Dollar Store (why would you buy them anywhere else?!  just $1!) and gave one to each kid that gets off the bus at our stop.  Then I filled the van with tons of regular balloons.  I used 50 and obviously needed more if I wanted to fill the van to the brim.

hint – use an air compressor to blow up the balloons!

Balloon photo bomb, coming off the bus:

And then save some of those giant cookies for a special after-school snack:

 Summer, here we come!!

Another fun idea – last year we made a HUGE chalk sign that said Welcome to Summer:

And lots of fun surprise chalk activities leading from the bus stop to our house:

Or you can give a Start of Summer Gift – – a summer journal is a great idea:

I know some of you are already out of school, but hopefully some of you can use these ideas!

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