Birthday Celebrations in the Classroom

We have been celebrating birthdays like crazy in our classroom and it is only the third week of school!  We have been blessed with a ton of September birthdays (I have a very young class) - we have had four birthdays already and we have two more this month!  I only have 21 students, so it is amazing how many were September babies!

On each child's birthday I force ask them to wear this crazy birthday hat that I had picked up on one of our family vacations at Disneyland.  We then take their picture and sing to them.  I also give them a Smencil attached to a birthday balloon template that I got here from What the Teacher Wants.

My 7th graders loved the tradition, and my 3rd graders are loving it too!

What do you do to celebrate birthdays in your classroom?