Birthday Party at school

Celebrating a Child's Birthday in the School Room

Watching their little faces light up makes celebrating a child's birthday at school magical. The sight of decorations, a cake, music and games, hearing classmates' laughter, and a smiling parent adds a sparkle to the party because it's in a more controlled environment and you can feel the children's happiness. Following checking with the school's policy about birthday celebrations, how to celebrate a child's birthday at school becomes an exercise in fun.

A Happy Birthday includes decorations that can range from a balloon for each child to beanie balls or hackeysacks to toss, and from banners to construction paper chains, from gift baskets for each child to a cupcake made of papier mache containing a sweet or small toy, and from paper hats to kazoos. Mom and Dad can get into the fun by cutting shapes to glue into a banner while the birthday girl or boy colors or glues pretty pictures on the shapes. Gift baskets can be constructed from soft baked dough prettily colored and filled with sweets or small toys like jacks or decoder rings for boys.

Everyone knows it's not a party without games. Coordinating with a teacher could combine learning with fun. How to celebrate a child's birthday at school could include a counting game such as guessing how many large gumballs are in an apothecary jar, for instance, as a lesson in math. A contest to decide the best colored picture of birthday cakes and candles would be popular, with, of course, consolation prizes to be offered. Happy spelling songs, such as Bingo, could be a part of how to celebrate a child's birthday at school. Singing gives the children time to slow down after the excitement of games and prepare them for the presentation of the cake and ice cream.

If you're the Mom who bakes birthday cakes from scratch, your child and all his or her friends will be delighted with shapes like Winnie the Pooh, Barney or the Little Mermaid. The special satisfaction of color and shape added, of course, to the taste of the cake make a birthday party for a child memorable. Having the neighborhood bakery airbrush a picture of your child's favorite character onto a sheet cake is also an alternative to baking one in the shape or likeness of his or her favorite character. Cupcakes and small squares of brownies, for example, are a popular treat for a child's birthday celebration at school.

Even if it's only a few minutes out of a day at school, a celebration of a child's birthday is just that: a celebration. Sharing in a birthday or good fortune or a relationship is part of a celebration because we want others to feel our joy. That joy is the magic that lights up their little faces when we celebrate a birthday in the school room and sharing is it how they make it count.