The End of the Year in VPK, Pre-K, Preschool and Kindergarten is such a special time to celebrate our students’ accomplishments with a graduation. Every year when my students graduate from preschool, we have a special “Preschool Graduation” day. We invite their families to come celebrate and we plan activities and events to commemorate the day and their time in preschool. We decorate the cafeteria and stage for our students to sing, dance, make crafts with their families, and take pictures.
Here’s some of the things I make for my class:
Graduation Caps:
To make them, I used black bulletin board borders for the part that goes around their head. I measured it and cut it for each student. I used foam sheets for the square on top, which you can get at a craft store or on Amazon. I made a hole through the top in the center and put yarn through. I hot-glued the yarn onto the back side, so it would stay. Then I used two circle stickers that had cute graduation caps on them (from Dollar Tree) and stuck them together, back-to-back, on the yarn. I hot-glued the head band from the bulletin board boarder to the foam square on the bottom. Then to finish it off, I had them choose a color of puffy paint and I wrote their names on top! For another Pre-K class at my school, I made them in white, so we would each have different colors. They came out cute in both colors and I’m sure would come out cute in any color!
Here’s another pic of some finished caps stacked up:
Here’s our cute Graduation Handprint poems too!
These poems are available in my TpT store and I’ve included poems for Preschool and Kindergarten! There’s also certificates included in the pack too!
During the Graduation Ceremony, after students sing and dance, we pass out “Diplomas”. When they come on stage, instead of handing out the real certificates, we hand out plain printer paper rolled up and tied with ribbon. Then we give the real certificates to the parents…no bent certificates that way!
I hope you found these preschool and kindergarten graduation ideas to be helpful for your end of the year graduation celebration. What else do you do to celebrate graduation with your students, find me on Instagram @specialeducationclubhouse and let me know!
