how to celebrate kids birthday in the classroom

[Anonymous]

My DS has one of the earliest birthdays every year in his classroom, so we can never "lift" any good ideas from the other kids' parents!

I asked his teacher what the policy is this year. She told me that the policy is to not allow anything homemade, only labelled food that is individually packaged. What would you send into the school for his birthday?

He has a favorite candy bar. I was thinking about buying the snack size of that and putting a happy birthday sticker on it?

OR would you do a nonfood thing? We did that last year but he told me that the kids preferred the times that they got candy or a cookie compared to the birthdays when they got pencils or stickers...

[Anonymous]

Stick with non-foods like pencils or stickers.

[Anonymous]

Once your child hits elementary school, please don't celebrate his birthday in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once your child hits elementary school, please don't celebrate his birthday in the classroom.

Bah humbug to you too!

[Anonymous]

I think the snack size candy is a great idea but make sure it's made in a nut-free facility. Most candy bars are not and the nut-allergy kids can't have it.

[Anonymous]

At my kids' school, it is all about the Dunkin' Donuts. They are seriously into that.
Some kids get cookies or those packaged cupcakes from Giant or the packaged rice krispie treats. If it were me and I had to do packaged, I would want the Entennman's black and white cookies.

I think the pencil idea is not particularly celebratory. Maybe a fun eraser if you don't want to do food?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once your child hits elementary school, please don't celebrate his birthday in the classroom.

Bah humbug to you too!

+1

[Anonymous]

You are over-thinking. Mini cupcakes bought from the grocery store. No personalization needed. Done.

[Anonymous]

I always do a little treat bag made of tattoos, pencil, eraser, and fruit snacks or gushers.

[Anonymous]

We do popsicles for my dd - the kids love them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my kids' school, it is all about the Dunkin' Donuts. They are seriously into that.
Some kids get cookies or those packaged cupcakes from Giant or the packaged rice krispie treats. If it were me and I had to do packaged, I would want the Entennman's black and white cookies.

I think the pencil idea is not particularly celebratory. Maybe a fun eraser if you don't want to do food?

That's another good idea. I suggested pencils b/c my kids loves them and they are what most parents give away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once your child hits elementary school, please don't celebrate his birthday in the classroom.

Bah humbug to you too!

Our school requires celebrations to be had in the lunch room. But if the school is okay with it in the classroom, why boycott that? E.S. kids need a break, and a birthday celebration is as good a break as any other. The idea that they really need to spend 5 1/2 hours in serious study is ludicrous to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always do a little treat bag made of tattoos, pencil, eraser, and fruit snacks or gushers.

You are making the rest of us look bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always do a little treat bag made of tattoos, pencil, eraser, and fruit snacks or gushers.

You are making the rest of us look bad.

+1!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my kids' school, it is all about the Dunkin' Donuts. They are seriously into that.
Some kids get cookies or those packaged cupcakes from Giant or the packaged rice krispie treats. If it were me and I had to do packaged, I would want the Entennman's black and white cookies.

I think the pencil idea is not particularly celebratory. Maybe a fun eraser if you don't want to do food?

Donuts or nut free cup cakes. I would not do rice krispie treats as vegetarian kids cannot eat them.