The school year is wrapping up, and it’s time to make the last days just as memorable as the first! Keep your kindergarten classroom buzzing with excitement, creativity, and purposeful learning with these end of the year activities for kindergarten. From engaging end of the year centers and creative end of the year crafts to memorable end of the year theme days and special end of the year awards, these ideas make the end of the year countdown both engaging and meaningful. Celebrate your students’ growth and make the final days unforgettable while keeping learning fun all the way through the countdown to summer!

End of the Year Activities for Kindergarten: Crafts

Crafts are some of the most engaging end of the year activities for kindergarten! These end of the year crafts give students a hands-on, fun way to celebrate their achievements and enjoy the final days of school.

Backpack Memory Cook Craft

This easy-to-assemble end of the year memory book backpack craft creates a meaningful keepsake that students and families will treasure for years to come.

Graduate Craft

Celebrate the school year with this fun end-of-the-year craft for preschool or kindergarten graduation!

Perfectly sized for little hands, this graduate craft adds a personal touch to your students’ big day and makes a great keepsake!

Summer Bucket List Craft

Get your students excited for summer with this summer bucket list craft! Featuring thirty writing pages and three craft options, it’s simple to customize this end-of-the-year activity to perfectly fit your classroom and your students’ interests.

End of the Year Activities for Kindergarten: Theme Days

When it comes to planning end of the year activities for kindergarten, classroom theme days are usually the first thing that come to mind! They’re one of my absolute favorite ways to celebrate the final days of school and keep excitement high right up until summer break.

Glow Day

Dim the lights and let the learning glow! These Glow Day activities and games make reviewing math and literacy skills exciting and engaging for your students.

Pool Party

Get ready to splash into summer, as you review math and literacy skills, with these Pool Party activities and centers!

Beach Day

Put on your sunglasses and flip flops for a fun-filled classroom Beach Day! With The Case of the Beach Bandit Escape Room, students will dive into six or eight different math and literacy centers.

Camping Day

Solve the mystery of the missing s’mores with The Case of the Camping Caper Escape Room! Students stay fully engaged as they explore eight hands-on math and literacy centers, all wrapped up in a fun Camping Day theme.

Ice Cream Day

Who stole the sundae supplies? With The Ice Cream Shop Mystery Escape Room, students will rotate between eight different ice creamed themed math and literacy centers as they try to discover the guilty suspect.

Circus Day

Just like the Beach Day, Ice Cream Day, and Camping Day centers, students complete eight engaging math and literacy activities while solving a mystery! In The Case of the Missing Peanuts Escape Room, they work together to figure out who stole the peanuts.

Bubble Day

On Bubble Day, the students make a bubble solution recipe for bouncing bubbles on their hand, determine the best bubble blower, compare the anatomy of a bubble to an Oreo, and make a bubble wand.

Check out this simple 3-ingredient bubble recipe for creating the perfect bouncing bubbles! It’s not only great for bouncing bubbles, but it’s also perfect for experimenting to see which objects make the biggest and best bubbles.

Marshmallow Day

It’s easy to incorporate all of the subjects, including math, science, ELA, art and STEM with these Marshmallow Day activities!

Popcorn Day

Your students will have a popping good time with these Popcorn Day activities! These fun, hands-on activities cover all subject areas and keep learning exciting and engaging.

End of the Year Activities for Kindergarten: Memory Books

One of my all-time favorite end of the year activities for kindergarten is creating memory books! They’re such a meaningful and fun way for students to reflect on the school year and see just how much they’ve grown from the very first day to the last.

Square Memory Book

Celebrate and preserve the memories of the school year with this square-sized memory book! It’s designed to fit the square booklets from the Target Dollar Spot, but if you don’t have those on hand, you can easily create one by stacking the pages and stapling along the left edge.

Standard Memory Book

Students can also make this standard 8.5 x 11-inch memory book! With 48 template pages available, you can easily customize the book to fit your classroom and create a unique keepsake for each student.

Digital Memory Book

Try a digital twist on your memory book this year! These digital end-of-the-year memory book activities are a fun and interactive way for students to reflect on their top 10 favorite memories from the school year.

End of the Year Activities for Kindergarten: Awards

At the end of the year, one of my favorite end of the year activities for kindergarten is hosting a special awards ceremony to celebrate each student’s unique personality, talents, and the incredible growth they’ve made all year long.

End of the Year Award Crowns

One of my students’ favorite end of the year activities for kindergarten is being celebrated with these personalized student award crowns! Each crown can be customized with a student’s name, and then students get to color them with crayons, markers, or colored pencils for a fun, memorable keepsake.

Printable & Digital Student Awards

Similar to the crowns, these student awards — available in both printable and digital formats — are fully editable! With 110 awards to choose from, you’re sure to find the perfect recognition for every student.

Student Awards Ceremony

Roll out the red carpet and host a fun-filled end-of-the-year student awards ceremony! Celebrate as a whole class or invite parents and guardians to join in. Hand out personalized awards, cheer on each student’s accomplishments, and end the school year on a high note before heading into summer!

End of the Year Activities for Kindergarten: Digital Activities

Make the final days of the school year easy peasy by adding some end of the year activities for kindergarten that are completely no-prep — like these digital end of the year activities.

Digital End of the Year Activities

These no-prep digital games are perfect for filling those extra minutes as you count down to summer, or they can easily be added to your end-of-the-year celebration for even more fun!

Digital Ice Cream Day

These ice cream escape room activities review key math and literacy skills with a fun, mysterious twist! Students will love working through the challenges as they solve the case of the missing ice cream supplies — and earn the chance to build a sundae along the way!

Digital Beach Day

Uncover who took the missing beach bag with The Case of the Beach Bandit Digital Escape Room while reviewing key math and literacy skills in a fun, interactive way!

Digital Camping Day

With the camping-themed centers from The Case of the Camping Caper Digital Escape Room, students will stay fully engaged as they tackle eight exciting challenges to eliminate suspects and solve the mystery of who stole the s’mores!

End of the Year Activities for Kindergarten: Centers

As the school year winds down, keeping students focused during center time can feel like a challenge. These engaging math and literacy centers are the perfect way to maintain routines, reinforce key skills, and keep learning going strong all the way to the last day of kindergarten!

May Centers

Keep kinders engaged and learning with these May math and literacy centers — perfect for reinforcing skills, boosting confidence, and making every minute of your end of the year activities for kindergarten count!

End of the Year Centers

These beach, ice cream, camping, and summer end-of-the-year math and literacy centers are a fun and meaningful way to keep kinders practicing key skills while they stay engaged as the school year wraps up!

You can also use the fine motor activities and early finisher activities mentioned in this post as part of your center rotations at the end of the year.

End of the Year Activities for Kindergarten: Morning Tubs

As the year comes to a close and routines start to feel a little wiggly, these fine motor morning tubs are a must-have for your end of the year activities for kindergarten. They keep kinders on task from the moment they walk in the door, while strengthening essential fine motor skills in a hands-on, meaningful way.

May Morning Tubs

These May fine motor morning tubs are packed with hands-on activities that help kinders build strength and coordination, while enjoying engaging, independent work!

End of the Year Morning Tubs

These end-of-the-year fine motor activities are perfect for strengthening little hands, while keeping kinders focused and engaged during morning work or center time, as the school year wraps up!

You can also use the center activities and early finisher activities mentioned in this post as part of your morning work.

End of the Year Activities for Kindergarten: Early Finisher Activities

As summer draws nearer, those “I’m done!” interruptions start popping up more and more. Add these math and literacy file folder games to your end of the year activities for kindergarten to keep early finishers meaningfully engaged and learning right up until the last day.

May Early Finisher Activities

These spring-themed file folder games give students hands-on practice with CVC words, syllables, rhyming, nonstandard measurement, 3D shapes, missing numbers up to 100, and plenty of other essential skills!

June Early Finisher Activities

Ready for some fun in the sun? If your classroom is still in session during June, keep students engaged with these 20 hands-on math and literacy file folder games!

July Early Finisher Activities

Make a splash this summer with these July file folder games! Students can practice CVCE words, decodable sentences, beginning digraphs, making 10, number bonds, 2D and 3D shapes, and so much more.

End of the Year Activities for Kindergarten: Gifts

End-of-year gifts are a thoughtful addition to your end of the year activities for kindergarten! Whether you’re celebrating students, volunteers, or your teaching team, there’s always someone special to recognize as you wrap up the school year and head into summer.

Summer Slime Kit

What better way to kick off summer than with this easy-to-assemble slime kit — a fun and memorable end-of-the-year gift for students! Don’t forget to grab the FREE slime gift tags at the bottom of this post to complete the gift.

Miss You Cards

As students get excited for summer break, saying goodbye to their school family can be bittersweet. To help ease those feelings, I love sending these FREE “miss you” cards during the first week of summer.

Self-Portrait Class T-Shirt

Celebrate the “TEE-riffic Year” with your students by creating these fun self-portrait class t-shirts! Check out the video tutorial to see how easy it is to make them.

Classroom Volunteer Gifts

Classroom volunteers deserve a special thank-you! These DIY volunteer gifts are budget-friendly. Don’t forget to grab the FREE gift tags at the end of the post to make giving extra easy!

Parent Thank You Cards

At the end of the school year, I love sharing these FREE thank-you cards with parents and guardians to show my appreciation for all their support and involvement throughout the year!

End of the Year Team Gifts

Show your team some love with these end-of-the-year gifts! Don’t forget to grab the FREE gift tags for these affordable gifts at the bottom of this post.

There are also student gifts included in the popcorn, marshmallow, and bubble theme days, as well as Glow Day and the Pool Party, mentioned above.

End of the Year Activities for Kindergarten: Read Alouds

These end of the year read alouds make a wonderful addition to your end of the year activities for kindergarten! They’re a fun way to count down the final days, encourage students to reflect on their experiences, and gently ease any worries about moving up to a new grade level.

More End of the Year Activities for Kindergarten

As the countdown to summer begins, celebrate the final 26 days with a fun activity for each letter of the alphabet using these ABC Countdown to Summer ideas! Easily plan each day with these FREE ABC countdown calendars!

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