We do this at the end of the year. We, the PTA, provide the drinks(soda, lemonaide, ice tea, etc.) and the hot dogs & burgers. Every family brings a side dish or dessert. If we don't have enough money left, we ask for a $5.00 donation per family.

We have relay races, egg toss, water balloon toss, kick ball game, basketball game, etc.

We post a schedule for different games and those who want to play play. We do get a large turn out and have been doing this for the past 7 years. It runs from 1pm- 7pm. We borrow the big gas grill from the fire department and have use of teh kitchen and bathrooms from the school. Our principal plays announcer and loves it.hope this helps!

Okay, here's a fun idea we're mixing around to start off next year.

We want to host a "Back to School Beach Blanket Block Party" for all our families before school starts next year.

Has anyone ever done this before? We've thought of hiring a DJ (or my hubby may be able to do this himself) to play all "beach" music (like the beach boys), having family races (like a 3 legged race), everyone bring picnic food for themselves, have a volleyball net and play with a beach ball.

We just want to do something for all the families to get them excited about the first day of school. This may make it easy on the new students and it may also give the teachers and staff a little jump start of fun before the big day.

any thoughts or ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.