So we’ve come up with kindergarten graduation gifts that mark the day, reinforce their academic skills over the summer, and will keep them entertained until they start first grade in the fall. “Big kid” school awaits! (Pro-tip: If you find yourself thinking something like “If kindergarten came and went like that, what does that say about the rest of their childhood?” Well, it’s best not to think about it.) Still, this calls for celebration, and celebration calls for gifts. Yes, that tiny baby who just couldn’t help eating literally anything they found on the floor has just graduated kindergarten and is now thrust into the wilds of elementary school. Graduating from elementary school and moving onto junior high is a momentous occasion in every child’s life. Surely, this small child who’s constantly putting things in their mouth won’t be in kindergarten any time soon, right? But then it comes, you take first-day-of-school pictures, stand in amazement as they learn to read… And now it’s over. Explore Danielle Duncans board Kindergarten Graduation Ideas, followed by 2655 people on Pinterest. When your child is an infant or toddler, the idea that they’ll be going to kindergarten one day, much less graduating from kindergarten, feels so far in the future, it may as well be a plot point out of Star Trek. For years, “kindergarten” was an early childhood benchmark.