New ways to celebrate your Student's birthday!
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Donate a book to the school library or classroom in honor of the child's birthday. Librarian shares book with class at next library visit.
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Donate plants and/or seeds to the DFES garden, in child's name. Arrange a time to plant the seeds/plants in the garden with Garden Committee or teacher.
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Arrange with teacher for extra recess time.
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Arrange with teacher to play an indoor or outdoor game of the birthday child's choice.
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The birthday child chooses a dance for the class to learn.
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Monthly birthday bulletin board in main foyer.
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Graph with 12 candles, one for each month. Each candle built with slips of paper with name and date of each student's birthday.
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Mystery guest reader.
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Show and tell or bring in special guest.
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Classmates can write something special about the birthday child, and create a "Celebrate Me" book.
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Allow the child to be teacher's assistant for the day.
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Birthday crown.
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Decorate student's chair.
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Students with summer birthdays get to do one of the above activities at half-birthday.
This page was last updated on May 14, 2019