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32 Quick & Fun Activities to Celebrate the 100th Day of School

  • Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5
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Hooray! You're more than halfway through the school year and it's time to celebrate with these five minute activities.

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Make a list of 100 magical events, people, places, or things in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

-2-
Look at a map to find what is 100 miles north, south, east, and west of your school.

-3-
Read One Hundred Hungry Ants, by Elinor Pinczes (Houghton Mifflin, 1999).

-4-
What was happening 100 years ago: Who was President? What were some new inventions?

-5-
String necklaces with 100 beads or Cheerios.

-6-
Calculate what year it will be when you turn 100 years old.

-7-
Write a story about what the world will be like in 100 years.

-8-
Find the names of two cities in every state, to add up to 100 cities.

-9-
Are there buildings taller than 100 stories? Find out.

-10-
Sing “100 Bottles of Pop on the Wall” all the way through!

-11-
Do 100 hops or 100 jumping jacks.

-12-
Learn 100 new words.

-13-
Read The 100th Day of School, by Angela Shelf Medearis (Cartwheel, 1996).

-14-
Measure a stack of 100 pennies.

-15-
Read Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day (Penguin, 1996), and make 100 paper snowflakes to decorate your class.

-16-
Build the tallest structure you can, using tape and 100 craft sticks or straws.

-17-
Count and glue 100 beans or seeds to a piece of cardboard.

-18-
Count by 2's to 100.

-19-
Then, count by 5's.

-20-
Get together with another class and blow up 100 balloons.

-21-
What would you do with $100?

-22-
What would you do with 100 Popsicles?

-23-
What would you do with 100 elephants?

-24-
Close your eyes and open them when you think 100 seconds have passed. How close were you?

-25-
Measure a string of 100 paperclips.

-26-
If you have 100 quarters, how many dollars do you have?

-27-
Write a story that uses exactly 100 words.

-28-
Write a shared story of 100 sentences, with each child adding a sentence at a time.

-29-
Put together a class collection of 100 favorite books.

-30-
Make a list of 100 fun things to eat!

-31-
A century lasts 100 years. A decade is 10. Find one fact about each decade of the 20th century.

-32-
How did you spend the last 100 hours? How many hours did you sleep? How many did you do homework? How many did you spend eating?

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