This year we are doing our back to school night before school starts. We are hoping this will ease childrens first day of school fears, releave the overweight backpack, and give kids, teachers and parents a chance to visit. We are also doing a bbq at our elementary and an ice cream social at our middle school. I'll let you know how it goes.

Our open house is 2-3 weeks into the school year also. We serve pizza and drinks ofr dinner. From 5:00-6:00 we have food and tables of different clubs and activities offered through the year. PTO also has sign up sheets and t-shirts for sale. Then at 6:00 they head to different classrooms to meet teachers and see the school. This night is decided on at a district level. It seems to work well.

Could anyone send me their scavenger hunt ideas?Thanks a bunch!
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Last year we had a back to school picnic at a local park. PTO served hot dogs and drinks and each family brought a dish to share. Kids brought bikes, skate boards and inline skates. We had bean bag toss, frisbees, hula hoops, etc. The high light of the evening was a kids vs. parents game of kick ball! It was a huge success and encouraged alot of families to get involved with more PTO activities.

We do a Back to School Luau. Everything is beach themed of course and we do it in the gym. We play beach music and have things like limbo and find things in sand. We serve hot dogs and popcorn and mingle. It is pretty cheap since most of us had beach decorations from our own perseonal parties and we have the teachers get the kids to color some fish that we cut out and put up on the wall. We encourage beach dress--hawiian shirts, etc and sell lays(sp) that we get from Party City.

We are having a Ice cream Social meet your teacher the Friday before school starts and had all the icecream donated from a local icecream shop.
We also do an open house in Sept and have a pizza dinner for $3 person. (We get the pizza through our school food service). We have parents donote store bought bake goods and whater or soda.

For the $3 they get a drink, slice of pizza, and desert. They can purchase extra slices for $1.
We had a great turn-outs last year