Classroom birthdays

Every birthday is special when you're growing up. So make it super special for your students with one of these awesome birthday boards in the classroom.

Birthdays in the classroom can be tricky due to cost and food restrictions. Here are bonafide tips for how to celebrate student birthdays in a special way.

As a child, few things are more exciting than your birthday. And while many older children won’t admit it - birthdays are even better when they fall on a school day. You have a classroom full of people ready to celebrate and - if you’re lucky - you have a teacher who’ll make you feel super special. I can never get enough of celebrating birthdays! Today I thought I’d share a bunch of easy and affordable ideas for celebrating birthdays in the classroom. They won’t break the bank, but they will…

Made-It #1 Aren't these cute? I'm glad you think so... ...because getting to this final product was a nightmare! You know when you have a "great idea" but then you get started and that great idea transforms...many times. I'm not going to go into details, but I will admit that I spent about 2 hours total getting to this point and it took a friend of mine (thanks Sara!) to give me the idea to line them up in this straight line. Go ahead...laugh and make fun of me (Kristi). I will admit that I…

Light the candles and cut the cake!

Fun birthday celebration ideas and tips for teachers of upper elementary classrooms and students. Display, bulletin board, cards, student activities.

From classroom birthday board displays to easy and fun activities for the special day, this article lists teacher-favorite ways to celebrate student birthdays at school.

Celebrating classroom birthdays is the kind of thing that made me feel a lot of pressure when I first started teaching. I didn’t realize that my kids would be grateful for just any kind of acknowledgement. I didn’t know (for some reason) that I should plan to give them all identical things. I just d