Homeschool Graduation Ideas

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We are graduating our oldest in May. (Woohoo!! HIGH FIVE!) She is participating in our homeschool group graduation ceremony, but there are still so many details to be worked out. I decided to hunt down some advice from those who have been there, done that.

Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus shares 10 days of planning a homeschool high school graduation.

7 Sisters did six posts on how to throw a great graduation party.

Teachers of Good Things offers great tips for planning a group graduation ceremony.

Homeschool Survival has a list of out-of-the-box graduation celebrations.

Let’s Homeschool High School created a helpful graduation planner checklist.

The Homeschool Mom gives ideas for 5 different types of ceremonies.

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• Let’s Homeschool High School
• Donna Young

Update {4/21/16}- What We Did

–> I will be updating this little by little over the next week, so check back in a few days for more! <–

We are on the other side of graduation now, so here’s a look at the details of our celebration..

High School Diploma

Graduation Announcements 

Senior Table

Graduation Party

After graduation, we had friends and family over to our house for lunch. We kept the decorations simple but festive, using black, silver, and gold decorations. Lunch was served buffet-style: a baked potato bar with Dickey’s Barbecue, salad, rolls, and cake.

Links to the decor we used:

• black, silver, and gold swirl decorations
• grad cap doorway curtain
• graduation cutouts value pack
• glittery congrats grad centerpiece
• graduation confetti
• graduation party kit
• gold plastic forks
• gold plastic cups
• black & white paper straws
• black tablecloths
• grad bear
• smart and stuff graduation sign