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End of Year Classroom Games

The last weeks of school are the perfect time to play your class favorites and celebrate how far students have come. These games work for the final review and the last day party.

  • 🎲 24 games
  • βœ… Free
  • πŸ–₯ Board-ready tools
Review games

Charades

Students act out a word or phrase without speaking while their team guesses.

  • ⏱ 10–30 min
  • πŸŽ“ K–12
Review games

Classroom Bingo

Students mark answers on a bingo card as you read clues.

  • ⏱ 15–30 min
  • πŸŽ“ K–12
Review games

Classroom Escape Room

Teams solve a chain of puzzles built from your unit content to unlock the final "lock" before time runs out.

  • ⏱ 30–50 min
  • πŸŽ“ 3–12
Review games

Classroom Scavenger Hunt

Students search the room for hidden clues or items, answering questions to unlock the next clue.

  • ⏱ 20–45 min
  • πŸŽ“ K–12
Team building

Cup Tower Challenge

Teams stack plastic cups into the tallest tower, or a Christmas tree shape, without touching them with their hands.

  • ⏱ 15–25 min
  • πŸŽ“ 3–12
Brain breaks

Freeze Dance

Play music, students dance, and when the music stops everyone freezes.

  • ⏱ 5–10 min
  • πŸŽ“ K–5
Quiet games

Heads Up, Seven Up

Seven students secretly tap classmates with their heads down, then the tapped students guess who tapped them.

  • ⏱ 10–20 min
  • πŸŽ“ K–8
  • ✏️ No prep
Review games

Jenga Review

Color-code Jenga blocks to question cards.

  • ⏱ 15–30 min
  • πŸŽ“ 3–12
Review games

Jeopardy Review Game

A quiz-show board of categories and point values where teams pick a square and answer the question behind it.

  • ⏱ 30–50 min
  • πŸŽ“ 3–12
Quiet games

Mad Libs

Students supply nouns, verbs and adjectives without seeing the story, then read the silly result aloud.

  • ⏱ 10–15 min
  • πŸŽ“ 3–8
End of year

Mafia (Werewolf)

A secret-role game where the "mafia" tries to eliminate townspeople at night while the town debates and votes by day.

  • ⏱ 20–40 min
  • πŸŽ“ 6–12
Team building

Marshmallow Challenge

Teams build the tallest freestanding tower from spaghetti, tape and string that can hold a marshmallow on top.

  • ⏱ 25–40 min
  • πŸŽ“ 3–12
Team building

Mummy Wrap Race

Teams race to wrap one teammate head to toe in toilet paper like a mummy.

  • ⏱ 10–15 min
  • πŸŽ“ K–8
Indoor recess

Musical Chairs

Students walk around a circle of chairs while music plays and race to sit when it stops.

  • ⏱ 10–15 min
  • πŸŽ“ K–5
Brain breaks

Ninja

Students stand in a circle in ninja poses and take turns making one swift move to tap another player's hand.

  • ⏱ 5–15 min
  • πŸŽ“ 3–12
  • ✏️ No prep
Review games

Pass the Present

A gift wrapped in many layers is passed around while music plays.

  • ⏱ 15–25 min
  • πŸŽ“ K–8
Review games

Pictionary

One student draws a word on the board while their team guesses it before time runs out.

  • ⏱ 10–30 min
  • πŸŽ“ K–12
Indoor recess

Pin the Feather on the Turkey

Blindfolded students try to stick a paper feather on a turkey drawing.

  • ⏱ 15–20 min
  • πŸŽ“ K–5
Brain breaks

Rock Paper Scissors Tournament

Students play rock paper scissors, and losers become the cheering section of the winner.

  • ⏱ 5–10 min
  • πŸŽ“ K–12
  • ✏️ No prep
Review games

Snowball Fight

Students write an answer or question on paper, crumple it up and throw it across the room.

  • ⏱ 10–15 min
  • πŸŽ“ 3–12
  • ✏️ No prep
No prep

Story Chain

The class builds a story one sentence at a time, each student adding to what came before.

  • ⏱ 10–20 min
  • πŸŽ“ 3–12
  • ✏️ No prep
End of year

Telephone Pictionary

A sentence turns into a drawing, then a sentence, then a drawing, as papers pass around a group.

  • ⏱ 15–25 min
  • πŸŽ“ 3–12
Review games

Trashketball

Teams answer review questions, and every correct answer earns a shot at the trash can for bonus points.

  • ⏱ 20–45 min
  • πŸŽ“ 3–12
Review games

Whole-Class Quiz Show

Run a quiz show with mini whiteboards: every student answers every question at the same time, so nobody sits out.

  • ⏱ 15–30 min
  • πŸŽ“ 3–12

Quick picks

Top 5 to try first

  1. 🎭 CharadesStudents act out a word or phrase without speaking while their team guesses.
  2. 🎱 Classroom BingoStudents mark answers on a bingo card as you read clues.
  3. πŸ” Classroom Escape RoomTeams solve a chain of puzzles built from your unit content to unlock the final "lock" before time runs out.
  4. πŸ—ΊοΈ Classroom Scavenger HuntStudents search the room for hidden clues or items, answering questions to unlock the next clue.
  5. πŸ₯€ Cup Tower ChallengeTeams stack plastic cups into the tallest tower, or a Christmas tree shape, without touching them with their hands.

Play online

Online end of year games for the board

Quiz ShowKahoot-style questions with colors, a countdown and team points. No student devices.β–Ά Play nowTic Tac Toe ReviewAnswer a question to claim the square. Red X vs Blue O.β–Ά Play nowMystery PictureAnswer questions to remove tiles. First team to guess the picture wins.β–Ά Play now

Board tools

Free tools for these games

Classroom TimerBig full-screen countdown with presets and an alarm.Open tool β†’Random Name PickerPaste your class list and pick students fairly.Open tool β†’Random Team GeneratorSplit the class into random groups in one click.Open tool β†’Classroom ScoreboardKeep team scores on the board for any game.Open tool β†’Jeopardy Review Game MakerBuild a quiz-show review board and play it on the board.Open tool β†’Bingo Card GeneratorMake printable bingo cards from any word list.Open tool β†’

Questions teachers ask

Frequently asked questions

What games are good for the last day of school?

Class favorites like Heads Up Seven Up, Pictionary, a Rock Paper Scissors Tournament and a year-in-review Jeopardy board.

How do I make an end of year review fun?

Turn it into a team competition: Jeopardy, Trashketball or a scavenger hunt with questions from the whole year.

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