End of the Year Alphabet Countdown Calendar

The end of the school year is the perfect time to celebrate all your students’ hard work! I love using this End of the Year Alphabet Countdown Calendar as a fun way to finish the year! Wrap up the last 26 days of school with a fun activity for each day!

The calendar I’m sharing has a theme for each day that starts with the alphabet letter.  It starts with A and ends with Z!

I also have an editable calendar, where you can use my template to create your own ABC countdown calendar! You’ll find the PDF at the bottom of this post.

Here are some ideas you can do for each letter!

Letter A –

• animals – learn about animals or bring a small stuffed animal to school
• airplanes – have fun with paper airplanes
• art – make a unique art project
• adventure – go on a fun adventure

Letter B –

• bubbles – play with bubbles or paint with bubbles
• balloons – do some fun games with balloons
• balls – play with balls
• books – bring a favorite book to school
• backwards – wear your clothes backwards
• beach – set up your classroom like the beach

Letter C –

• chalk – play with chalk at recess or make homemade chalk
• camping – do camping activities with your class
• construction – a day to excavate, dig, and build
• crazy hair – make your hair crazy looking

Letter D –

• dance – have a dance party
• donuts – bring donuts for your students
• dinosaurs – set up dinosaur activities
• detectives – act like detectives for the day

Letter E –

• exercise – complete fun exercises
• extra recess – give your students more time to play
• experiments – complete a fun science experiment
• eat – eat lunch together outside or in the classroom

Letter F –

• fruit – bring your favorite fruit for snack
• frogs – learn about frogs
• frisbees – play with frisbees
• flashlights – bring a flashlight and play flashlight tag
• favorite book – bring a favorite book to share with the class
• fancy day – wear fancy clothes

Letter G –

• games – play a fun game
• gum – let students chew gum
• glitter – make a project with glitter
• green – wear the color green
• goldfish snack – enjoy goldfish for snack

Letter H –

• hats – wear your favorite hat
• horses – learn about horses
• Hawaii – have a luau in the classroom
• helping – find ways to help around the school

Letter I –

• ice pops or ice cream – enjoy a cold treat
• ice – paint with ice or do an ice excavation
• insects – learn about all kinds of insects
• inside out – wear your clothes inside out

Letter J –

• jokes – bring a joke to share with the class
• jelly beans – do math activities with jelly beans
• Jell-O – eat Jell-O for snack
• jersey – wear your favorite team jersey to school

Letter K –

• kickball – play kickball as a class
• kites – fly kites
• kindness – find ways to show kindness to classmates or teachers
• kick your shoes off – wear no shoes in the classroom

Letter L –

• lollipops – bring lollipops for your students
• lemonade – enjoy a cup of lemonade
• ladybugs – learn about ladybugs
• Legos – build with Legos

Letter M –

• music – play music all day
• M&M’s – do fun activities with M&Ms
• mustache – bring a stick-on mustache for the students
• magnets – play with magnets
• movie – watch a movie

Letter N –

• nature – go on a nature walk
• ninja – act and dress like a ninja
• necklace – make a necklace
• neon – wear neon colors
• noodles – eat noodles or make a sensory bin with noodles

Letter O –

• oobleck – make 2-ingredient oobleck
• orange – wear the color orange and eat oranges for snack
• Oreos – try different kinds of Oreos
• occupations – dress what you want to be when you grow up

Letter P –

• popcorn – eat a popcorn treat
• pizza – enjoy a slice of pizza
• pirates – dress and act like a pirate
• play dough – play with play dough
• Pete the Cat – read Pete the Cat books
• pajamas – wear PJs to school

Letter Q –

• Q-tips – paint with Q-tips
• questions – everyone asks a question to the teacher
• quiet – have a quiet day and leave extra time for reading
• quilt – make a classroom quilt

Letter R –

• ribbons – make a ribbon wand and dance
• rainbow – create a rainbow craft
• red – wear the color red
• relay races – compete with classmates in relay races

Letter S –

• silly – wear something silly
• shaving cream – play with shaving cream
• Skittles – eat Skittles!
• scavenger hunt – go on a scavenger hunt

Letter T –

• toy – bring a small toy to school
• treasure – go on a treasure hung
• tinkering – create with a tinker tray
• tie dye – wear tie dye or make tie dye shirts
• talent show – invite the kids to show off their talents

Letter U –

• USA – wear USA colors
• under – read books under a table
• upside-down – flip your schedule
• unicorns – dress like a unicorn

Letter V –

• volcanos – make a play dough volcano
• vegetables – bring your favorite vegetable for snack
• viola – do a magic show

Letter W –

• water – play with water or bring some water balloons
• walk – go on a walk
• window – decorate your classroom window
• weather – learn about the weather

Letter X –

• eXtra recess – give them more time to play outside
• eXercise – complete fun exercises
• eXchange – exchange autographs with classmates

Letter Y –

• yummy – enjoy a treat
• yo-yos – play with yo-yos
• yellow – wear the color yellow

Letter Z –

• zoom – zoom off to summer
• zoo – learn about zoo animals
• zip – zip up your backpacks and head out to summer vacation

If you’d like to download my calendar, just click on the words below:

>>> Alphabet Countdown Calendar

Make sure to share this calendars with parents so they can help their little ones come to school prepared with any special items they may need.

Have fun with this countdown to summer calendar!

 

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