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Make the end of the school year meaningful and memorable with this time-saving bundle of low-prep activities, creative projects, and student awards! Designed for grades 3–6, this bundle includes four engaging resources that help your students reflect, celebrate, and wrap up the year on a high note - without adding more to your already full plate.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
- Create Your Own Board Game Project A no-prep, open-ended project where students design their own board game - a fun way to apply critical thinking and creativity before summer break.
- Editable End-of-Year Student Awards Celebrate every student with 75 editable awards that are fun, positive, and customizable. Choose from academic, personality-based, or funny awards to end the year with smiles.
- Student Snapshot Poem | All About Me Activity A thoughtful keepsake that doubles as an end-of-year reflection or a back-to-school intro for the fall. Students share who they are with a creative, fill-in-the-blank poem format.
- End-of-the-Year Memory Quilt Reflect on the school year with this printable and digital bulletin board project. Students create quilt squares that capture favorite memories, making a beautiful classroom display or keepsake.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE THIS BUNDLE
- 25% off when you grab all 4 resources
- Easy to implement with minimal prep
- Student-approved activities that promote creativity and reflection
- Perfect for the final weeks of school or those tricky half-days
⭐️ WANT MORE DETAILS ABOUT EACH RESOURCE?
❯ CREATE YOUR OWN BOARD GAME PROJECT
Unleash your students' creativity by having them create a board game. This no-prep resource can be used in so many different ways - novel studies, test prep, enrichment, content review, or assessment - just to name a few. The included templates will get your students started quickly!
Students don't just create any board game - they need components that go with typical board games, which is where the critical thinking aspect comes in. They will write instructions, create game pieces, write content questions, and try out each other's games to make sure they work. This is a project students will ask to do again!
THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES
- 44 PDF pages (+ editable Google Slides file)
- Intro project Google Slides presentation to introduce the project and show examples of student-made board games
- Teacher information and instructions
- Suggested supply list
- Student project planning pages
- Printable templates for student use:
- Dice
- Spinners
- Instructions
- Game cards
- Game money
- Puzzles
- Game boards
- Game design and element shapes
- Rubrics (one for individual student grading, one for group grading)
- Editable rubrics (one for individual student grading, one for group grading)
- Board game rating sheets – for students to grade each other’s board games
❯ STUDENT AWARD TEMPLATES | EDITABLE
Celebrate your students with achievement, academic, and fun student awards! Having customized awards at your fingertips has never been easier. Remote learning ready with instructions for how to give digital awards to your students and hold a virtual awards ceremony!
Editable text boxes on every award allow you to choose your wording and fonts. With 96 award templates to choose from, this editable resource allows you to create student awards for end of the year superlatives, birthdays, award rallies, graduation, and much more!
This is NOT a print-and-go resource. The file includes templates for you to customize with 100% editable text. Some awards are pre-filled with additional ideas along the side of the page. A list of 314 award ideas is included to help fuel your creative customization!
THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES
- 96 award templates with completely editable text, including:
- 77 templates featuring Melonheadz kids clipart
- 19 templates with a simple award ribbon clipart
- Color and black/white versions of each award
- List of 314 award ideas (3 pages)
- Instructions for using the awards digitally for remote learning or a digital ceremony and holding a virtual awards ceremony (+ slides that you can use as a part of your ceremony)
- Google Slides awards templates (same content as the PowerPoint files)
- Student award checklist/voting ballot - a PDF that you can type right into and use as a checklist or student voting ballot
* Please note: These are templates, meaning they are not a print-and-go resource. This is so you can customize them to fit your classroom needs.
❯ STUDENT SNAPSHOT POEM
Snapshot Poems are a fun way for students to explore their values and learn more about each other. This activity is perfect for beginning of the year or end of the year. I used this activity for 5th grade graduation.
THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES
- Teacher information
- Link to Google Slides poem template (editable)
- Snapshot poem template - printable with blanks for students to write their rough draft
- Grading rubric
- Example poem
- Student example photos
HOW I USED THIS RESOURCE
I had my students write Snapshot Poems at the end of 5th grade for our promotion ceremony. Students wrote and typed the poems, and I took a photo of them to go on the final draft. For our promotion ceremony, I recorded students reading one stanza from their Snapshot Poem and played the video during the ceremony for parents. This part of the ceremony was always a huge hit!
❯ END OF THE YEAR MEMORY QUILT REFLECTION ACTIVITY
Have your students create a fun, memory-filled class quilt display to reflect on the school year. This resource is a great way to have a student-created highlight reel displayed in your classroom without using pages and pages of paper to create memory books for each student.
My favorite way to use this resource is to have it on display during back to school night so the next group of students and their families can see everything they have to look forward to in your class.
THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES
- Teacher instructions
- 37 prompts for students to use for creating their square + 2 create your own prompt fillable pages (for 16 prompts)
- 30 quilt square designs
- 17 titled squares + 6 editable title squares
INCLUDED FILE FORMATS
- Zipped Files: This resource comes as a zipped folder containing multiple files. You’ll need to unzip the folder to access all the resources.
- PDF: To view and use the PDF files, you’ll need Adobe Reader (a free download). Using other PDF software may cause formatting issues.
- PowerPoint: This resource requires Microsoft PowerPoint. Please note that it hasn’t been tested with other presentation software. If you don’t have PowerPoint, you can use the provided Google Slides version instead.
- Mac Users: If you’re using an older version of PowerPoint, you may encounter font issues. Some fonts may not display correctly, and you may need to download or purchase specific fonts to match the preview. Font details are provided within the file.
- Google Slides: Access the Google Slides version using the link provided in the included PDF. You’ll need a (free) Google account to use this file.
PLEASE NOTE
⚠️ Only the Student Awards resource is editable.
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