All About Me Printable Ideas for Older Kids

August 6, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

The beginning of school is a great time for ice breakers and learning about the other kids in class, but doing the same old activities can get pretty boring as you get older. Here are some ideas for older elementary and beyond that kids might actually enjoy as they learn more about their new classmates.

Twinkl has a ton of back to school about me printables, but a couple of my favorites for older kids include the hoodie and the shoe. These printables have a key for what is supposed to go in each space, but you could also just give them the blank version and some ides for what to fill the spaces with.

The Imagination Box has some similar ideas for all about me printables including a T-shirt, backpack, soccer ball and Instagram style grid. The Instagram one in particular would be great for an art class since they’ll be drawing the images that go with each thing.

I also love this one from Create in the Middle by Katie P from Teachers Pay Teachers, which has the kids tell about themselves through the charms on a Croc. (As an aside, it’s astonishing to me how many kids wear Crocs these days!) Kids answer a few questions, which tells them which charms to add to their shoes. They can cut and color in the Croc itself as well as the charms, or you can use a digital version to have kids design their own Crocs on the computer.

And this one from Cassie Dahl is more of an icebreaker than an about me printable, but it’s a fun one that gets kids moving a little bit. The printable cards have instructions like “stand up if you like to read” or “step back if you own a pet that’s smaller than your hand.” These prompts are sure to get kids talking and help them learn a little bit about each other, too.

All About Me Printable Mini Book

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Easy Christmas Art Activities for Kids

There are so many different holiday themed arts and crafts projects that kids can do, but I wanted to share a bunch of easy ones that you ca do with a classroom of kiddos or at home to display through the season. (A lot of these projects would be great to do at school for kids to give as gifts.)

This watercolor snowflake project from The Crafty Classroom uses bleeding tissue paper to make the effect. If you don’t have any on hand you can just paint on the template with watercolors.

Speaking of watercolor, these watercolor geometric holiday designs are super cute painted with watercolors. Get the templates from The Best Ideas for Kids. You could also just have kids color them in with crayons or oil pastels if you don’t have watercolor paint handy.

Make a painting of a Christmas tree in a window with this project idea from Projects with Kids. It doesn’t take a lot of supplies but looke really pretty and would be cute to make into a greeting card or just to decorate the classroom.

I love these little printable pop up scenes for kids to color from Krokotak. They look like little snow globes and feature a pop up snowman, gift, tree and house so kids can pick their favorite to make.

Shaving cream marbling is a classic kid craft, and you can give it a holiday twist with this project from One Little Project. It’s shown as a Christmas tree but you could make it into a snowflake, bauble or anything else you like.

And speaking of baubles, while we’re veering into sensory territory, why not try painting with Christmas ornaments? This idea from Happy Toddler Playtime is easy to set up and fun for kids — just make sure you’re using non-breakable ornaments! This is another one where it would be fun to do the painting and then cut it into festive shapes to use as ornaments or in other projects.

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