Easy End of the Year Craft for Students
There are so many wonderful end of the year craft ideas to help your students prepare for the transition of ending a school year. This can be a bittersweet time of year. In fact, for many students, it's an anxiety-provoking time. Because some students aren't ready to leave behind their classroom, teacher, and friends. We can help students prepare for this transition using books, celebrations, and my favorite – end of the year crafts!
Read on for 10 of my favorite end of year crafts to try in your classroom.
(Want something prepped and ready to go? Check out my end of the year memories anchor chart and craft activity right here!)
End of the Year Craft Ideas
There are so many ways to celebrate the end of the year. (Check out this post for end of the year celebration ideas). Plus, it's a special time to recognize the journey you've taken together as a class. Students have grown and changed during the school year, and they've bonded with you and their classmates.
It's important to honor this learning and growth, not just because it's fun, but because it helps students prepare themselves mentally and emotionally for ending their time with you. The crafts in this round-up all focus on celebrating learning, growth, and memories. And they help students not only look back on what they've accomplished, but also look forward toward what's next!
Memories Booklet
This Memories Booklet is such a sweet end of year craft. It prompts students to look back at the year they've had and remember their favorite times. Not only does it serve as a great way to reminisce about the year, but it also will be a sweet keepsake for students to keep and look back on in the future. You can get templates for this craft right here.
Memories Anchor Chart
This idea is extra fun because it's an activity you can do together as a class. First, have your class remember and share some of their favorite things they've done this year. Then, give each student one of the polaroid cut-outs for them to draw their favorite memory and write their name. Finally, paste all the polaroid cut-outs onto the anchor chart to create a memory collage you can display in your classroom!
Click here to get this anchor chart template.
Goodbye Stars
This is such a fun way to help students get ready to say goodbye to their friends! As a class, you brainstorm phrases you could write to your friends to say goodbye and wish them a happy summer. Then every student gets a large star for all their friends to write a message on.
I love this idea for creating a simple way for students to give a simple message to their friends. Students will love getting to take home these special stars for summer time.
Memory Lapbook
There is something just so fun about lapbooks! And I love this one because of all the different pieces students get to put together. This craft is all about remembering the great times from the year. I love that it has lots of different parts for students to reflect on and record their favorite parts of the year.
Mini Year Book
This end of the year craft idea is designed for students to make a page in each other's booklets, so that they end up with a little mini-yearbook at the end. The pages include a simple prompt for students to draw and write a favorite memory they had with their friend.
You get to choose how many pages the students have. You can have one for every student in the class. Or, you could limit it to 5 and have students just choose 5 friends to write in their booklets for a shorter activity.
Click here to get this craft.
Memory Wheel
This fun end of the year craft could be adapted for any grade level. Students get to think about their favorite memories. Then they add them to this wheel-shaped design. You'll end up with a great little keepsake or classroom display!
Class T-Shirts
I love creating our very own t-shirts with my class each year. This one is always a big hit with my students.
First, students bring in a plain white t-shirt from home. Then, we all sign the backs of the shirts with sharpies. Finally, students get to decorate the front of the shirts with fabric paint. These make the perfect shirts to wear on the last day of school and take some fun pictures together.
Memories Flower
This is one of my favorite end of the year craft ideas because they turn out so beautiful you'll want to display them in your classroom! In each flower petal, students record one of their favorite memories from the school year. Then the edge of the petals can be decorated with sequins to make them extra beautiful.
You can grab this template totally free right here.
Ice Cream Memories
This is another fun memories craft for the end of the year. Students record their favorite memories on different scoops of ice cream. Then the scoops get stacked on top of each other to create a super cute ice cream cone. This craft is such a fun way to celebrate the year that's past while also building up excitement for the upcoming summer months.
Wave Goodbye
This is a fun end of the year activity that is a pure art craft. Students trace their hand and create a cut out. Then they decorate a paper with paint marks to create a fun background. The hand print cut out gets glued onto the background paper to look like it's waving. For the final touch, give students a little poem about the end of the year to glue on next to the hand.
This end of the year craft idea could help you have a discussion with younger students about the end of the year, what it means, and to help them process any feelings of anxiety they have around it. The more we can prepare our little ones for change ahead of time, the better they will be able to handle it!
End of the Year Crafts
I hope this helped you find the perfect end of the year craft for your students! Crafts are the perfect activity for when you're feeling those end of the year blues kick in (or that end of the year craziness!).
Any of these end of the year craft ideas would be a fun way to close out the school year. They make fun displays for the end of the year, and they become beautiful keepsakes to help students and families look back and remember the fun school year.
Remember if you need something prepped and ready to go, you can get this class activity and two crafts that are all about classroom memories right here:
Which craft are you most excited to try? Let me know in the comments! xoxo Laura
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