As a Room Mom, I found that coming up with ideas for the End of Year Party can be the best part of the job. Back in 2012, this is what I came up with:
Choosing a theme for this year’s End of the School Year Celebration was easy. It is already pretty hot down here in South Florida, so it wasn’t much of a stretch to go with Tropical Beach. We didn’t get overly creative with this party, but the children had a blast!
![End of Year Party - Class Room Mom Ideas](https://daydreamlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/End-Of-Year-Party-Class-Room-Mom-Ideas-1024x1024.png)
I went to Party City where I was able to find tropical plates for the pizza and cookies along with matching napkins and tablecloths. I was also able to get a lei for each child at $.43 each (he lowered the price from $.49 for me!). There were white, red and yellow ones.
![End of Year Party Theme](https://daydreamlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/theme_littlebitsandpieces.jpg)
While the teacher and I got the pizza ready to be served, the Room Dad called for a few rounds of M&M Bingo. The teacher had these Bingo cards and the candy ready for us. My son won the second round and each winner got to take something from the prize bucket.
![End of Year Party Game](https://daydreamlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/bingo_littlebitsandpieces.jpg)
After pizza, we offered dessert to the children. Can you see that the butter cookies are in the shape of shells? I was so excited to find them. They were actually little French butter cakes that I found at Costco. We paired that with mini chocolate brownies to make sure we had both flavors covered.
![End of Year Party Snacks](https://daydreamlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cookies.jpg)
We got to focus on the craft once the food was done. Mrs. K ordered these wonderful little cloth baseball caps for the children to decorate with fabric markers. Get ready, because I told them I would show off every cap here. (There are quite a few!!! And all photos were taken with my iPhone 3GS.) I don’t have all 25 for some reason… I don’t know if someone was absent or if I missed someone.
End of Year Party Craft Idea: Personalized Baseball Caps
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As the last of the kids finished their hats, the teacher put on the 101 Dalmatians movie which was a perfect way to end the day.
P.S. 2022: I miss when the children were little. I so enjoyed all the amazing opportunities and experiences that I was blessed with by being a room mom as often as possible for all three children. Even though this End of Year Party took place a decade ago, I feel like it is still a great craft idea for today’s world.
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