Summer Buckets

Towards the end of the school year as I'm getting excited for summer, the kids start getting a little sad that school is over.  Now this makes ME sad because I want them to be as excited as I am for the summer.  SOOOO I made these little summer buckets to have on the counter when they get home on the last day of school.

They are filled with things that I usually buy for summer, like new swimsuits, flip flops, water balloons, sunglasses ....  Target's dollar section was filled with fun summer toys and had these buckets.  I also stuck in flyers about sport camps, circus, reunion agendas, family field trip places we are going ... you get the picture.
You know how you have teacher appreciation baskets, well these are my student appreciation baskets.

My favorite part of this is their letter to each of them about their school year.  Both Stephen and I write in the cards.  We try to highlight some of their strengths in their various subjects or field trips that we went on this year.  It just lets them know how proud we are of them.

Here is a picture of last year's buckets.

Looking back at last years I remember giving them flashlights for campouts and also had pop and candy in there too.  Anyway, I wanted to check this off before next week and as I was fixing the buckets today Ashley asked where hers was.  I guess I better get two more whipped up.  

Why did I have SIX kids!?!?!