Ideas to Make Your Child’s Celebration Dinner a Night to Remember
- Set a special table: real dishes, flowers, cloth napkins or placemats and place cards.
- Invite family or friends.
- Prepare their favorite foods.
- Have a graduation theme – graduation from kindergarten, third grade, any grade!
- Do a slide show on your computer.
- Place framed photos of them, from the school year, on the table.
- Escort your children into dinner.
- Give thanks for a school year successfully and safely completed.
- Make a toast – clink glasses.
- Take a photo of them holding a sheet of paper with the school year they’ve just completed written on it. Recognize them by telling them why you are so proud of them!
- Put the spotlight on them with these questions:
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What was their favorite part of the school year?
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What are they looking forward to most about next year?
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What do they plan to do over the summer?
- What kind of small vacations would they want to take?
