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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Sun Activities for Kids

With summer coming soon in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s a fun time to incorporate activities and crafts with a sunny theme. Take some time to learn about the sun (this post from National Geographic Kids is a good one) and then do some sun activities.

Sun prints are a classic summer activity, and there are lots of ways to do them, from placing objects on construction paper (like in this craft from MomBrite) or by using sun print paper (aka cyanotype paper).

Practice threading, counting, color sorting and other skills with this easy sun threading activity from Taming Little Monsters.

Lessons 4 Little Ones has a great blog post full of ideas for science experiments using the sun, such as melting crayons, looking at shadows, making a sun dial and trying a solar oven. Printables to go with the lessons are available for purchase or you can just talk through the students’ hypotheses about what will happen and draw or otherwise record the results.

This updraft tower from Almost Unschoolers is a cool way to illustrate that the heat of the sun causes an updraft, which makes the pinwheel spin. This is a good one to do inside near a sunny window so you don’t have wind spinning the pinwheel instead.

You’ll want to get out in the sun to try this experiment form Life with Moore Babies to see what kinds of things the sun can melt. Using different kinds of sweets you can see how the sun melts things by itself and how you can concentrate the power of the sun with a magnifying glass.

Playing with shadows is fun for kids of all ages, and you can track a shadow through the day with this experiment from Science Sparks. If you’re working with multiple kids they can each choose an object to shadow (ha!) and at the end of the day you can see how different their shadows looked.

And of course you’ll want to make a sun themed suncatcher craft, right? This one from Fox Farm Home uses all the pretty flowers you collect on your nature walk and puts them in a sun-shaped frame.

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