Easy Activities for the End of the School Year

I don’t know when the end of the school year comes for you, but we have 10 days of school left as I write this. I’m not a teacher but I know how hard it can be to teach kids or do anything remotely educational this time of year.

We want these last days in the classroom to be fun and memorable but not a complete waste of learning time.

Minds in Bloom has a great list of end of the year activities that will keep kids engaged and learning. There are ideas for reflecting on the year, brainstorming ideas for summer, learning with sidewalk chalk, doing good deads, and of course celebrating the year with special events.

I love the idea of having a book swap because we all know reading during the summer is so important.

How many days of school do you have left? How are you preparing?

[Photo: Minds in Bloom]

If you are looking for fun active games to get the kids moving, I highly recommend this Floor Is Lava Board Game

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We don’t really have any travel to speak of planned this summer, and my daughter is old enough that any lengthy time in the car is usually spent with an audiobook or watching videos. But I remember the struggle of keeping little kids entertained on long trips, especially if you don’t want them on a screen the whole time.

I recently saw this post from Creating Really Awesome Fun Things, which is a roundup of 26 road trip games, ideas and activities that kids can do. From stringing beads onto pipe cleaners to felt busy boards, travel journals and using a pizza box to contain colors, trains (or cars) and more, there are lots of fun and easy ideas here.

I’m a big fan of printable road trip activities, and even have a whole post all about printables for road trips. I used to always do some kind of license plate game, a map, mazes and I-spy style scavenger hunts, which are fun for everyone in the car to play along with. (You can also find some patriotic road trip mazes here.) If your road trip includes a camping trip, check out these camping themed printable games and activities.

Productive Pete has a super cute map of the United States (pictured above) that kids can use in lots of different ways while on the road. They can color the states you travel through, or all the states they’ve ever visited, or use it to give the license plate game an extra challenge as they try to find each state on the map. You can quiz older kids on the state capitols, which you might need to brush up on yourself (guilty!).

Do you have particular games or activities that you always have on hand when you are doing a road trip with kids? I would love to hear about them!

[Photo: Productive Pete.]

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