What Should I Bring into School for My Son's 7Th Birthday Tomorrow?

What about take home bottles of bubbles or for use on the playground?

What about gift certificates from McDonald's or Wendy's (they often have like a 10 pack for a just a few bucks and each is good for a free cone or frosty.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUR SON!!!

How sad that we can't bring in "sweets' for our kids anymore!!!

I went to Wal-mart and K-Mart for my son's 11th birthday (last Saturday) i found some Tec-Dec small frisbe's and some little jeeps - I went to the $1 section and did it.

However, I will admit I stopped doing things for the entire classroom as it just got too expensive. I have a party and that's it.

Fun erasers and bookmarks are good for goodie bags.

Donate a book to the teacher's classroom library in honor of your son's 7th birthday.
Go to a Dollar Tree or similar store and look around. They have things that come in packages of 10 or 12. Mechanical pencils and colorful pens are fun for that age, too.

Happy birthday to your son! It's always fun celebrating our little one's birthdays, isn't it?

I would ask the teacher for suggestions. When my son was 5 I found out that alot of the kids had broken their crayons, and so many of them just had a few in their pencil boxes. I found some crayons (during the summer) where on really good sale. SO I bought a new box of crayons for each kid in the class as a gift from my son. 30 boxes of crayons cost me $6.00. The kids were thrilled!

Last year it was new dry-erase markers. I bought a set for each table, so 6 sets.

So I would see if there was something that the class was needing.

Happy Birthday 7th birthday to your son!

We recently gave each child wooden maracas; bumble bees, lady bugs and frogs. As I bought them in bulk from a local store, the owner gave me a steep discount... $3 each v $5 (and they gave me bags to put each into). Yes, this was a tad more expensive, but I felt good about money well spent - 22 kiddos. It was so much fun, they put on music and everyone danced and had a blast for about 20 min - good cold weather fun!

I believe lots of other stores have other musical instruments. How about a springtime theme like really inexpensive kites OR packages of seed to plant. Perhaps pick seeds that can be planted in egg cartons.

I opted for just one gift as opposed to a whole bag of stuff - just my preference. Good luck (sorry, I only saw your post this morning, hope you figured out something).

So many children are developing reactions to food these days, and so many are diabetic, that schools have to have a policy like this.

I'd ask if it's expected or advisable that you do something - it seems that it might put a lot of pressure on parents to provide 22 gifts or favors for the whole class, and that can be a hardship for many, particularly in tough economic times. Besides, the kids who have birthdays in the summer or during vacations often miss out. It's probably better if the classroom just gives the birthday child some special privilege (being "line leader" or being first out to recess is a big deal to kids). The summer birthday kids can have an un-birthday day when they are special.

Ours doesn't allow any thing at all for birthdays ! Pencils, stickers, erasers are all good choices. I would stick with something like that - very simple.

Our school system doesn't allow the kids/parents to bring in food nor non-food goodie bags for the other children for a couple of reasons. The food is because of health code laws that concern nutrition as well as protecting children with food intolerances and allergies. They don't allow the parents to send the children with goodie prizes either because some families can't afford to "compete" with the families who can, or their parents forget to send them with something. Many children also have birthdays that fall during Summer break or other vacation times. In any case, the children who have nothing to bring when it's their birthday feel left out.

What happens in our schools instead is that the school announces the student's birthday over the loudspeaker and has a special little package containing birthday pencils and a paper crown with the child's name on it.

I would call your son's teacher to see how they handle birthdays and go with whatever she says the school policy is.

To bad you can bring sweets, it was always exiting to ditch our boring sandwich when a kid brought cake on their birthdays.
I have see very fun erasers in different shapes, like food or animals.
You can find fun stuff in Michaels or the dollar store.

As a mom to a child with food allergies, I am happy to hear that b-day celebrations are going food-less! I would suggest checking out the dollar store.