End of the School Year Classroom Activities

With the end of the school year coming up fast, you might be looking for some fun activities to do in the classroom to mark the occasion. These are also great to do with groups of kids such as Girl Scouts, a church group or other club that doesn’t meet over the summer.

We Are Teachers has a collection of 21 ideas that you can use for fun at the end of the year. I love the person bingo idea, because that’s often one that’s played when people are getting to know each other, but it can be fun to see how much faster this goes when people have had the whole year to learn different things about each other. That particular idea (which comes with a printable) is from Playdough to Plato.

Younger kids will enjoy these end of the year crowns you can print and color. The printable, which is available on Teachers Pay Teachers, is 65 pages and covers kindergarten through fifth grade with sentiments like “future fourth grader” and “I totally rocked second grade.”

Creatively Teaching First has a bunch of cute ideas for celebrating the end of the year, from a beach party that builds up over 10 days of fun activities to printable doughnut themed awards, summer bookmarks and more. These ideas are sure to get you thinking of some fun things you can do with your class, or even your kids at home (a beach party at home would be fun for the first day of summer, for instance).

Add some color and a little snack to your end of the year reflections with this Skittles writing activity from Digging Deeper Teacher Resources. Each child gets a bag of Skittles and the things they write down on their memory list are related to that color (for example red is thing they’ll miss, purple is something they learned, etc.).

Need more ideas for the end of the year? Check out this awesome A to Z end-of-the-year roundup I shared before.

Ways to Count Down to the End of the School Year

End-of-School-Year Ideas for Older Kids

Goodbye Stars to End the School Year

Easy Activities for the End of the School Year

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Summer Activity Printables for Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

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