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End of the Year Writing Crafts

April 26, 2021

You’ve spent months teaching, building community, and watching your students grow in many ways. You’ve worked so hard and now it’s time to finish the school year in a fun way with these end of the year writing crafts! These are a great tool to use as students reflect on the school year and get ready for summer break.

Finish the school year in a fun way with these end of the year writing crafts! These are a great tool to use as students reflect on the school year and get ready for summer break.

Writing Crafts for the End of the School Year

This resource includes all the templates and writing prompts you need to put together six different writing crafts. This allows you to mix and match the crafts so there is more variety, or change things up from year to year. Here’s a closer peek at these end of the year writing crafts.

Watermelon Craft

Looking for a fun way to reflect on the school year? Try this watermelon craft.

Sunshine Craft

Let your students shine as they look back on the school year with this sunshine writing craft.

Each craft includes writing templates. You can choose between handwriting lines or standard lines. Because these crafts can be made into booklets, students can add more than one writing page, if needed.

Popsicle Craft

Whether your students want to reflect on the school year or look ahead to summer, this popsicle craft is a great way to capture their writing.

Kite Craft

Whether your students want to reflect on the school year or look ahead to summer, this kite craft is a great way to capture their writing.

For this craft, you will need to provide ribbon or string for the kites. I used curling ribbon to add more dimension to the craft.

Pizza Craft

Do your students love pizza? This pizza craft is a fun way to reflect on the past school year.

This resource includes templates to add pepperoni slices to the pizza. Students can use markers or crayons to add other toppings to their pizzas (olives, peppers, etc.)

Camera Craft

Students will use this camera craft to share their school year memories.

You can find all of these writing crafts here:

Finish the school year in a fun way with these end of the year writing crafts! These are a great tool to use as students reflect on the school year and get ready for summer break.

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Enjoy!

Finish the school year in a fun way with these end of the year writing crafts! These are a great tool to use as students reflect on the school year and get ready for summer break.
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