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

This time of year is a great time for pulling out all the apple and pumpkin themed worksheets to add a little seasonal fun to your learning. Let’s take a look at some fun pumpkin themed worksheets for the classroom or homeschool.

If you want some pumpkin printables that are actually about pumpkins, check out the pumpkin life cycle worksheets from 24 Hour Family that include parts of a pumpkin, life cycle, vocabulary, shape and counting activities. Rock Your Homeschool also has a cute printable and foldable life cycle worksheet for the life cycle of a pumpkin that kids can color and put together.

Inspire the Mom has ideas for a pumpkin unit study as well as printables (free with email signup) that include parts of the pumpkin, letter recognition, lesson plans and more. The blog post also includes more ideas for things like pretend play and centers, as well as books and videos with a pumpkin theme you can include in your study.

Do some pumpkin themed color by number with these printable coloring pages from The Artisan Life. Or try your hand at pumpkin I-spy with this printable from The Best Ideas for Kids.

Work on shape recognition and matching with this color, cut and paste activity from Free 4 Classrooms. And get some cutting practice with a pumpkin twist with these worksheets from Simple Everyday Mom.

These last two have a bunch of different fall themed worksheets to choose from, some of which include pumpkins. Willa Bean and Co. has a pumpkin themed alphabet set that includes pumpkins with the letters inside them and sets of upper and lower case letters on seeds you can use for matching.

And Worksheeto has a bunch of fall themed phonics worksheets, including pumpkin sight words with fall themed words and pumpkin letter matching.

For more pumpkin learning fun, see our pumpkin printables for kids and pumpkin STEM activities lists.

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