

The Dollar Tree is a great place to get inexpensive plates and napkins in your school colors. Here is where room moms can be super helpful! Room moms can help to decorate your graduation space with a few signs and groups of balloons. On the day of the ceremony, you'll need to decorate. Click here to get this set of graduation hats in my TPT store. They aren't fancy, but it works! Then students can decorate their “hats” however they'd like. If you don't have the budget to purchase graduation hats (we certainly never did), have your students make hats using sentence strips and cut out clipart picture of a graduation cap. A simple menu might include cookies, pretzels, fruit tray, and water bottles or juice boxes. You can go with a simple snack sign up with a “we get what we get” mentality or use a sign up website to have families sign up for donations.


In the weeks leading up to Kinderbration, you'll need to send home an invitation and snack sign up. It's the end of the year and everyone is excited and exhausted, so why add to that stress? Keep your ceremony short and sweet and your families will still love it! What do you need for a simple Kinderbration? It's a fun name and it really is what we are doing, having a kindergarten celebration! Here are some tips to keep your kindergarten graduation (Kinder-bration) as stress-free as possible!įrom the beginning, I wanted to keep our Kinder-bration as simple as possible. So we decided to call our celebration Kinder-bration. But calling it graduation didn't feel right and added unnecessary pressure. I loved the idea of celebrating the end of my students' first year of elementary school as it is a momentous occasion. Kindergarten graduation is a fun way to end the year but I always felt strange calling it graduation and it always ended up feeling super stressful during an already stressful time of year.
