Celebrate Birthdays!

I know for many of us, birthday celebrations have changed drastically in the last 10 years.  It use to be you could celebrate birthdays whenever, for how ever long, and bring whatever to eat.  Of course, the rules have changed.  Now, birthday celebrations have to be done at recess or during the last 10 minutes of school.  That's it.  And cupcakes are a no-no.  How sad!  That is how I feel.  I mean, there are so many children who don't get to have any celebration at home.  Unfortunately, they don't get to have the time to feel extra special.  And shouldn't we ALL feel that way--atleast once a year? It doesn't have to be with cupcakes..the food is not the important thing here (but oh are they yummy--and you don't have to eat 5 at one time--just one--teach kids responsibility-even when they eat :).  It's the chance to celebrate LIFE.  I am thinking that it was a few that 'abused' the time and so now we have rules.  That is ok.  That doesn't have to slow us down from celebrating.  We can still incorporate these sorts of things with quality activities that tie to standards and objectives.  (allright-off my soapbox)
On to the ideas..

Some ideas besides cupcakes:

* bowl of any fruit--especially berries!

* individual containers of yogurt

* granola packs with a few M&Ms sprinkled inside

* mini-muffins

* banana bread or some sort of sweet bread

* pretzels with chocolate slightly drizzled on top

Any more?  Please share in the comments!

And I'm linking up with Blog Hoppin to share this pack and at the bottom of this post you can see how you can display your birthday banner and months with the kids' names.  You also get a FREEBIE at the bottom.

Celebrate during reading with these activities so you won't miss one second of learning...

I created this:

In this pack you get:

•6 Common Core Standard and TEKS (Texas) related literacy activity

 ---4 activities to go along with the picture book Camilla, the Cupcake Fairy (You are going to love this book if you don't already have it!!)

  2 activities to go along with the picture book Happy Birthday Moon

•1 Common Core Standard and TEKS (Texas) math related activity

•Birthday Banner

•Birthday Quote to display

•Birthday Bulletin board display

•Invites

•Parent Letter

•Sign up sheet 

*Desk Tent

•Sign in/out sheet              

*Sign your child out sheet

•Birthday pencil topper/circle  

*Birthday Star for student to wear

•Birthday calendar 

*Birthday certificate for your students

Please check out the preview!  And head to my STORE. 

To *celebrate* I am going to share this birthday tent for the student's desk for FREE.  It is part of the pack but you can get it for free HERE.

Do you have any more ideas?  How do you celebrate birthdays?  Feel free to pin or post this link to facebook!

*CHEERS!* April