I’m a real fan of back-to-school celebrations. They can be a wonderful way to start the school year whether your kids attend public school, private school, or homeschool. 
As homeschoolers, my family started each school year with a celebration. We did our celebration on the first day of the new school year, but you could celebrate a bit later if needed. The main thing is finding a way to make the new school year special and memorable. My children are now 24 and 29, and we still treasure the memories from our first-day-of-school celebrations. You can read about my family’s back-to-school tradition in “Start the School Year with a Celebration!”
If you’d like to use calendar observances as celebrations to add fun and interest to your homeschool or family schedules, I have a post with August Themed Activities for Kids … part of my Monthly Themed Activities series. 
For the photo part of your back-to-school celebration, be sure to check out my post “30+ Free Printables for First Day of School Photos.” Today, I’ve searched the blogosphere for more fun ideas for back-to-school celebrations. Here are LOTS of fun ideas for back-to-school celebrations:
Back-to-School Celebration Ideas
10 Ways to Celebrate the New School Year from Scholastic- 15 Back to School Traditions from Reading Confetti
- 25 Fun First Day of School Traditions from Lalymom
- 6 Simple Ways to Make the First Day of School Special from Mamas Like Me
- 25 Fun First Day of School Traditions from The Dating Divas
- 12 Fun Back-to-School Traditions to Start With Your Kids This Year from Babble
- 18 Creative Things to Do for Back to School from Tip Junkie
- 5 Ways to Celebrate the New School Year from Education
- Celebrate Back to School with a Party from The Taylor House
- Back to School Traditions from The Pleasantest Thing
- Back to School Games from Domestic Goddesque
- Back to School Party Posts from One Charming Party
- Back to School Celebration from Wish Upon a Star with Jennifer
- Back to School Presents from Design Mom
- Surprises for Your Brand New Student from Volunteer Spot
- Back to School Breakfast from Your Homebased Mom
- Back to School Breakfast and Word for the School Year from Erica’s Bloggity Blog
- Back to School Lunch from JDaniel4’s Mom
- Easy ‘A Is for Apple’ Cake to Celebrate Back-to-School from Parade
- Back to School Themed Treats and Sweets from Celebrations
- Back to School Fashion Show from Eighteen25
- Back to School with Neon Party from Paging Supermom
- Back to School Celebration from The Tomkat Studio
- Back to School: C is for Cookie from Confetti Sunshine
- Back to School: Making Time Capsules from Make It Do
- Back to School Ideas from Martha Stewart
- Back-to-School Notebook Paper Doodle Nails by Holly Homer at Spoonful
- Celebrate Homeschooling with a Not Back to School Event from The Homeschool Mom
Be sure to check out my Back to School Pinterest Board for LOTS and LOTS of other back-to-school ideas for teachers, homeschoolers, and families of all kinds.
Have a great school year! 🙂
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Wow fantastic giveaway, thank you for the opportunity!
Pinned! Excellent information that is practice and inspiring about returning to school Thank you!
Thanks for the giveaway! I am so excited for this new school year 🙂
Amazing giveaway! Thank you for the opportunity!
What a great giveaway, do I have a change in the Netherlands?
My children and I are very excited about heading back to school (homeschool) this week! I particularly enjoy discovering all the new ways to make learning fun and educational by visiting many of the blogs and sponsor from this post.
This are fantastic ideas!!
Thanks for making back to school exciting for homeschoolers!
School is such an exciting and intimidating time… Thanks for all the ideas on how to make it a great start!
I would want to win the giveaway for my son and daughter.
We love back to school time in our home!!! My girls are getting more anxious as they see me preparing our room and activities for next week! 🙂
I’m hoping to do a lot of activities with my 4 yr old and 1 yr old this year so this would really help get us going! Thanks!
Preparing for back to school can both be overwhelming and exciting. There’s plenty of room for wonderful ideas such as these. Thank you!
Back to school is a wonderful time. Hopeful, excited, eager, ready, yet relaxed. Love this time. Fresh books, new perspective, any junky times of last year forgotten. Clean start. Thank you for the giveaway to make it even more special.
Such wonderful ideas!! We still have a few weeks before we go back to school, but I always take my daughter to the book store to pick out a book for the first day of school.
Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
I think we missed the giveaway, but this is still a slid post. We love helping people with back to school and creating teacher gifts online here at Polka Dot Design. Custom notepads are a great addition to the backpack. Thank you for sharing!