18 Last Day of School Celebration Ideas

Last Day of School Celebrations

Send a surprise last-day note in a snack or lunch bag

Do some car art for up line

Break the paper Banner across the door saying Hello Summer 

Make signs to welcome summer with some Balloons

Host an afterschool party or special family dinner

Make Hand Art and compare it to previous years’ hand prints. 

End of Year Exhibit of artwork

Summer Basket filled with squirt guns, silly string, balls, books, chalk and so much more.

Basket of books for a  summer reading list 

Surprise Them with an Ice Cream Bar or Bonfire and S’mores

Plant Sunflowers and other flowers 

Make a photo or scrapbook

Dance to the song Schools out

Paper chain or calendar for summer 

Summer bucket list

 

Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stephenson

In winter I get up at night

And dress by yellow candlelight.

In summer, quite the other way,

I have to go to bed by day.




I have to go to bed and see

The birds still hopping on the tree,

Or hear the grown-up people's feet

Still going past me in the street.




And does it not seem hard to you,

When all the sky is clear and blue,

And I should like so much to play,

To have to go to bed by day?



 [Source: A Child's Garden of Verses (1999)]