PARTY TIMES

Back to School Party

The end of August is a mixed feeling for most school children. The carefree days of summer are coming to end, but the thought of a new school year is exciting. 

Why don’t you celebrate the start of a new school year with a Back to School Party?!? A great way to get kids excited for school!

It’s also a great opportunity to meet again those kids who left Hong Kong during the entire summer, visiting their relatives in other countries!

Vanille has compiled some ideas for partying!! This can be a great way to pump up everybody's school spirit!

Decoration

The primary colors of red, blue, and yellow make a great back to school party decoration color scheme.

• Fill your leaving room with welcome messages written in sidewalk chalk.
• Fill glass vases with apples and pencils for a colorful table centerpiece.
• Hang a large blackboard and put out some chalk for your guests to write messages. Or you can use a world map.
• Create a school-inspired centerpiece by stacking books in the center of the table and topping it with an apple.
• Fill small decorative buckets with pencils, erasers, markers, pens and other colorful school supplies.

Food

• If you like to bake, make a Bus School or Pencil Cake. Otherwise you can buy some ready to eat cupcakes and decorate them with ABC or crayons. Another sweet treat could be alphabet and number cookies.
• Provide a lunch sack for each child using brown paper lunch bags. Fill them with an apple, juice box, mini raisin box, bag of chips and pre-made sandwich (could be peanut butter and jelly, ham and cheese, bologna). As a fun touch, cut sandwiches out using school bus or apple, use cookie cutters.

Entertainment

If the kids didn’t see each other during the summer there w\is going to be plenty of fun and chit chats. You don’t need to hire entertainment. Or you can  try the following activities

• Prepare the children for the inevitable first essay by playing a game of charades with the theme "What I did on my summer vacation."
• Get them thinking about their letters and numbers again by baking and decorating alphabet and number cupcakes!
• Let children decorate pencil holders or notebooks. Use empty cans or juice boxes; for decoration they can use stickers, paints, crayons, color paper, etc.

Make the end of summer vacation more fun for your child with a back-to-school celebration