Craft Gossip

The largest independent craft review site since 2007

Graduation Party Food Bar Inspirations

by

foodbar0

Trying to decide on a graduation party menu can be challenging, especially when you know many of the guests will have multiple graduation parties to attend around the same time as yours. To do something different, try a DIY food bar where guests can customize their meal to their personal tastes and appetite.

Graduation parties are a great way to celebrate the end of one part of your life and the beginning of another about to start.  Grad parties are very popular with whole classes and year levels celebrating together in groups, a great way to say goodbye.

A food bar is a good budget-friendly choice because you’re easily able to reuse leftovers in other meals. For example, leftover fruit from a build your own fruit salad bar can be frozen and used for smoothies. This minimizes food waste. Visit The Cottage Market to learn more.

 

Read These Next

Have you read?

Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

  • Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
  • NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
  • Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
  • The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]