Elie had her last day of Pre-K on Thursday. She wanted her picture taken with this tree at their last day picnic! In the car, on the way home, I heard sniffles coming from the back. I turned around to see her tearfully staring at her class picture! So sweet...
I found this idea somewhere online & loved it. I put together little sand buckets of fun things for the summer. I included bubbles, pool toys, water guns, glow sticks, toy boats (to race in the creek behind our house), a hummingbird feeder, & some other random trinkets. Elie got her bucket on Thursday, but I saved Zeke's for Wednesday, which was his last day of school.
I tried to talk Zeke into eating lunch in the cafeteria, but he doesn't like chicken nuggets, so I packed his lunch one more time for his second grade year.
I always like to give the teachers something homemade, so this year I had Mark cut a ruler & I glued it on a picture frame. I had ideas of gluing a small chalk board on it & writing "Ms. Lewis Rules" in white, but that idea didn't work out, so I just used PicMonkey to add it to the photo.
We also gave the teachers, nurse, secretaries, principals, & custodians $5 gift cards to DQ.
We started a tradition last year to arm ourselves with water toys & the hose, hide on the side of the house, & attack Zeke as he got home from the bus on the last day. After getting him good with a water gun & the hose, I decided to hand him my gun. MISTAKE!
Fortunately, Mark still had the hose, so he got Zeke to quickly stop chasing me with the gun! Looks like he got Elie pretty good too!
Next year I'm thinking we might use silly string. We'll definitely keep the tradition, but we'll have to change things up to keep it somewhat of a surprise! He said he was going to hide a water gun to have to get us back, but I guess he forgot to do that!
Checking out his summer loot...
I have a ton of things I want to do with the kids this summer. Here's our list:
Inside Fun...
Sand Art-
Sewing Project
Bake (Popsicles, ice cream, frozen
pudding pops)
Make Puppets & Put on a Puppet
Show
Make movie or music video
Outside Fun...
Plant Seeds
Make Bird Feeders
Flashlight Tag
Flashlight Limbo
Catch Lightning Bugs
Campfire
Glow stick Hide & Seek
Giant Bubbles
Learn to Hula Hoop
Learn to Jump Rope
Boat Races at the Creek
Wash Cars
Scavenger Hunt
Build fort in woods
Water Balloon Toss using beach towels
Away from Home
Camping
Cave Tour
Visit Grandparents
Baseball Game
Zoo
Swimming
Museum Center
Movies
Nature Center
Wet Playground
Fishing
Letter Boxing
Bike Trail
Library Story Times & Reading
Program
Drive In Movie
Amusement Park
Outdoor Concert
Home Depot/Lowes Kids Clinic
Frisbee Golf
Bowling
Vacation Bible School
Indoor Playground
Go Karts
Local Lake Beach
Canoe
Pick blueberries
Do you have any fun planned this summer? Any end of school traditions?
More posts on the last day of school:
Last Day of School Traditions
Making Special Memories on the Last Day of School
More posts on the last day of school:
Last Day of School Traditions
Making Special Memories on the Last Day of School
