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Graduation Gift & Celebration Ideas
A few of our best ideas for your graduate
Class of 2021…we celebrate YOU!
From beginning to end, this school year was not “normal.” Our hearts broke over and over again for our seniors. But no matter how 2021 is different from “normal,” this truth remains…
YOU DID IT!! So, let’s celebrate!
Below we have collected some ideas for celebrations and our latest and greatest version of our graduation gift ideas. (Have celebration or gift ideas to share? Please send us an email with your idea.)
Celebration Ideas:
- Plan future travel – Those first trips this year will be extra sweet!
- Special dinner from their favorite restaurant–everything from appetizers to desserts. Or maybe even buffet spread from a couple favorite places?
- Drive thru graduation party – Invite friends and family to drive by your house. Do it up with balloons and music. Have a keepsake item to sign out for drive by signings. Honking is encouraged! Make it a party. Include the whole neighborhood’s seniors.
- Create a digital slideshow of the best/cutest/funniest pictures of your child from the last 18 years. Have family and friends send in pictures too. Share the finished product with friends. Maybe create a website where they could all be posted.
- Create an online memory jar (Facebook group? Dropbox shared folder?) where students can share their memories from all their friendships and experiences.
- Collect short “congrats” video messages from friends and family to make into one collage. Vidday is a webpage we have used in the past.
- “Host” a special senior breakfast–remotely. Recreate the senior breakfast with pancakes and an online gathering to eat and chat.
- Surprise sign bomb your house – Have friends and family make posters that are taped to your house/garage door.
- Decorate the front door with your child’s school highlights and future plans.
- Have a funny senior photo shoot complete with face mask and funny props.
- Adopt a senior – Currently popular on social media – Folks “adopt” a senior and give them cards and small gifts.
- Watch some celebrity graduation speeches.
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Gift Ideas:
FOR THOSE CREATIVE GIFT GIVERS
Sometimes you need a graduation gift idea that’s a little bit different:
- A fully packed wallet (we have one above)–Buy a new wallet and fill it with store gift cards, a little cash, some family pictures, and some coins for the college laundry.
- Lots of ideas that you can customize on Etsy: a miles from home sign to hang in their dorm, personalized graduation keychain with 2021 penny, phone/passport/laptop covers, personalized water bottles, or a miles from home key chain.
- A loaded bound for college laundry basket with all kinds of cleaning and toiletry items.
- College specific…beyond the t-shirt or blanket…how about local restaurant gift cards or a gift card to the college bookstore?
- Monthly gift subscriptions for things like coffee, snacks, body care items, etc.
- If you are gifting money (and what future college student doesn’t appreciate that?!), you can get super creative in the way you present it. Click here for ideas from Hallmark or a Google search can help.
(Not gift giving related–but good to share and pass on. College students can get discounts from a wide variety of retailers and services. Click here for a recent list.)
Disclaimer: We put this shopping list together just like any other parent…by browsing Amazon and the internet. We have no personal experience with these products. Happy shopping!
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