Kindergarten Graduation Gift

What about a charm bracelet? You could get one fairly inexpensively (probably under $30---less if you shop the sales carefully--- I have gotten them for $14 before) and add charms through the years.

My daughter doesn't have a Kindergarten graduation but did have a Preschool graduation last year. At their school they marked it as their first year/start to beginning school.

I bought her the book Someday by Alison McGhee and wrote a special message about starting her life and how proud I am of her and always will be. They received a single flower from the teacher and I think that was her favorite part. LOL But I know someday she will look back on the book and reread the message I wrote and it can be a special memory.

A book and write something in it to her. A nice one. Look at some Shel Silverstein.
I agree though it is ridiculous. :)

Plant a tree with her in your yard and as she goes through her school years she can watch it grow as she does. Get a fruit tree and she can pick the fruits of her labors!! "From little acorns, mighty oaks grow..."

Books! These are awesome to give a kid at the start of a new chapter:

"Oh, the places you'll go!" Dr. Suess

"One and only you" Linda Kranz - its about a little fish who's parents are about to send him into the ocean w/bits of wisdom such as "always be on the lookout for a new friend, Look for beauty wherever you are, blend in when you need to, stand out when you have the chance" etc.

"The Three Questions" Jon J Muth - based on a story by Leo Tolstoy, don't let that intimidate you b/c it is written and illustrated as a children's book and it can really get any child thinking about life. The 3 questions are "When is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do?".

Jamie Lee Curtis (yes, the actress) has an excellent line of self discovery books for kids. Any of of them would make a great presents.

GL!

I did a goody bag of summer stuff, including reading books for my sons.

This set the stage for each following summer: the last day of school they received their goody bags. They loved them!

New water wings, sunscreen, sunglasses, coloring/craft supplies, a fav candy - usually something unique like wax bottles/pixie sticks, water guns, etc. I also included a new book & a handmade coupon book for the activities we normally did each summer.....trips to the library, park, pool, etc. Each of the items in the goody bag were things which would have been bought thru the summer .....so it was not a huge expense ....but presently very well in a goody bag!

Books. First grade is all about reading - so either find a beautifully bound early reader book that would catch her interest and has gorgeous illustrations or photos - or a gift certificate to a bookstore - and then you go shopping together to get some neat books? My kids, now in middle & high school have saved a few of their special books that we'd read together many, many, many bedtimes.

What about framing her class photo?

Maybe a gift card from Claire's ($5-$10)? She will feel grown up with a "credit card" and she could pick what she wants. Take her out to lunch (her choice) and a litle shopping trip to Claire's. She might remember a big girl lunch and shopping day w/ Mom. Unless she is good at keeping keepsake gifts on her dresser, it would prob go by the way side w/ the stuffed graduation bear. Have fun with it!

I went the extravagant route, and bought my daughter an American Girl doll.... but only because she'd been asking for one for a really long time, and her birthday & Christmas were still 6 months away. I only splurge for holidays... so usually there's very little I buy for my kids between Easter & their late-fall birthdays!

So if there's something your daughter has been asking for, and you just haven't had a good reason to give in & say yes, maybe now's the time? But don't spend money just to spend money, because she won't appreciate that... & might expect it every year!!

Now would be a good time to start a savings account for her. Let her watch it grow until she graduates. You could tell her for every A she gets you will add X amount of dollars. And for making honor roll she will get X amount, and so on and so forth.

At my son's graduation last year I took the afternoon off (he had a half day) and took him out to lunch and then we went to go see a movie. He loved it so much that he wants that to be an end of the year tradition.

my parents bought my daughter a card and some flowers for her preschool graduation (our school doesn't do the kindergarten graduation thank goodness) I also like the savings account idea WONDERFUL way to save for her college fund and also a tool to teach her how to save her money for larger purchases

buy her a book or make her a scrap book of pictures or things of the year. write a message to her about how hard she has worked and how fast she is growing and put it in a frame the dollar store has some nice ones.if you don't have extra money or you don't want tto spend alot let her invite a friend over. make the day special make her favorite meal for breakfeast, lunch, or dinner.

I have been thinking the same thing! Glad you asked! I love the idea of a great book with a message. Off to the bookstore I go! Thanks Ladies!

Our neighbor invited us to her graduation last year. We brought her a single rose, something inexpensive and "grown up". And some early readers. Her mom made a big deal about them being "first grade" books. I know it sounds like you want something more sentimental, but this was a small way for us to mark the occasion for her.

Someone I know got her daughter a sterling silver birth stone necklace to mark the occasion. Her daughter loves it, but they have had to buy three of them because she has lost them while playing.

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King Sized chocolate bar. Remember, she's 6 : )

My son has his preschool graduation so I'm glad you asked this question! Haha. Even though I'm curious and hoping to get ideas from your responses, I have a couple I can contribute. I see a lot of people suggested books. I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but Hallmark has these books where you can record your voice reading it. They're kind of expensive but then I found them at WalMart and Kroger grocery too (Idk if u have one of those).

We have 4 kids and my son loves spending time with us by himself. If you've ever read The 5 Love Languages I'd say his is quality time. Anyways, the lunch and movie idea is good. My son loved chuck-e-cheese (again, don't know if u have one) so maybe we'll do that. One year we took my daughter shopping by herself on her birthday to a store she loved but we don't usually shop there cuz its on the expensive side.

So just a couple ideas...

I like the digital scrapbook idea! Last year I did one for each of the kids and they loved them! On a side note, I've don't them for special occasions and vacations too. Last Christmas we gave out oldest daughter a hard back notebook with pictures of her on the front (she loves to write, draw, doodle...). Sorry, sure you're not looking for something like that but thought I'd mention since I was on the topic. Maybe snapfish has other ideas besides books, ie. Blanket, pillow case... I also found personnalizationmall.com and they have a million items to select from. You may want to check it out for other occasional items.

Whatever you do will be special though cuz its from mom. Oh, maybe flowers for rightafter??? Our daughter got 8 roses for her 8th.birthday in Feb from an aunt & uncle. I would've never thought she'd care about something like that but she loved them and is still talking about them 3 months later!