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
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)]
