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

Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 each year (because it celebrates the time period when several countries gained their independence) and it’s a great time to bring in some Hispanic inspired crafts and foods. For an overview on the celebration, the difference between Hispanic and Latino and the importance of the holiday, as well as a look at Latino art and famous Latinos and Latinas, check out this post and related information from the National Museum of the American Latino.

Spanish Playground has a great collection of craft ideas that you can do in Spanish class or with kids in any class or at home. It includes things like weaving, making mola (folk art from Panama; learn more at Kid World Citizen), doing an artist study of a Hispanic artist and more.

Crafty Chica has a great collection of crafts, coloring pages and printables for celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with kids. I love this coloring page inspired by Amante bark painting, but there are also folk art stamps, corn husk dolls, tile painting ideas and more.

Papel picado is a classic folk art from Mexico that will feel familiar if you’ve ever made a paper snowflake. Learn how to make them from tissue paper with this video from Hispanic Society Museum and Library.

Learn more about Hispanic Heritage Month, get recipes and crafts from PBS Kids. I love this Peruvian siku flute, which can be made with old markers or paper straws.

While not exactly a craft, playing loteria (a Spanish language bingo game) is a fun thing to do with a group of kids. Free Kids Crafts has printable bingo cards with basic Spanish vocabulary and images for people who don’t already know these words.

And if you need a little snack when you’re done crafting, try these no bake mini tres leches cakes from Inspired by Family. They’re made with purchased pound cake so they’re pretty fast and easy.

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