100 Hundredth-Day-Of-School Activity Ideas

100 Hundredth-Day-Of-School Activity Ideas for that day you thought would never get here and now school is finally half over for the year!

 

Sometime in the last half century,

or at least since I was an elementary school student,

which may of may not be the same thing,

teachers got really, really smart.

They realized that not only does January seem like a month that lasts forever in a child’s mind,

(a month with no holidays? we can’t have that!)

but when you get to the end of January the school term is half over!

Everyone, teachers and students, have survived another interminable term of studies and hard work

and reached the half way point where they can glimpsed the end of the year as a tiny light in the distance.

To set their eyes on to make it through to the end…

And that’s how

Hundredth-Day-Of-School Celebrations

came to be. The best thing ever for weary teachers and students.

My girl g’littles school has an over-the-top plan for this year.

They are having a backwards school day!

Or you could say, school evening. They are starting school at 3:00 pm, when they usually go home, and studying until 6:00 pm.

Then the parents will bring “lunch” and they’ll eat and have Hundredth-Day-Of-School activities until 9:00 pm.

How fun is that?

So today we’re going to do some research and find Hundredth-Day-Of-School activity ideas for you all

slogging away to that half way point of the school year.

 

 

 

Bring 100 Items to school:

1. Bring your collection of 100 matchbox toys to school.
2. 100 buttons; marbles; game pieces; etc.
3. A book with exactly 100 pages.
4. A hundred grains of rice, then tell this story.
5. 100 bubblegum balls and have a bubble blowing contest.
6. A jar with 100 jellybeans; M&Ms; skittles; etc., to share.
7. 100 stamps from a stamp collection. Use a map to find the countries they represent.
8. Bring a 100 piece puzzle to put together.
9. Bring 100 pennies to school. Talk about “if pennies were wishes” what 100 wishes would they wish?
10. Share 100 Reese’s Peanut Butter cups with your class: they were invented in the 1920s.
11. Collect 100 autographs.
12. Have a sticker collection? Bring 100 stickers to school.
13. Each student brings 100 Legos to school and builds a structure with them.
14. Take a “nature” walk around the school yard and collect 100 rocks.
15. Make a chain with 100 paper clips.

 

 

Hundredth-Day-of-School Activity Ideas:

1. Write a 100 word story.
2. Draw, paint or color a page with 100 items.
3. “Count to 100” contest: the fastest counter wins a prize.
4. “Simon Says” Game: “Simon says take 100 steps divided by 10.”
5. Decorate the classroom with Hundredth Day garlands and hanging decorations.
6. Play games children played in the 1920s: checkers; dominoes; jacks.
7. Tell a 100 word story: Each student says a sentence with 10 words in turn, until 10 ten word sentences equals a 100 word story.
8. Imagine what school will look like in 100 years. Draw a school bus, desk, etc.
9. Draw the number “100” to fill a page, and make pictures with the digits.
10. Recite 100 Bible verses, altogether or taking turns.
11. Brainstorm 100 acts of kindness together, then make a poster with the acts written on a rainbow.
12. Make a list of 100 colors.
13. Complete a dot-to-dot picture that has numbers 1 to 100.
14. Fill several jars with 100 objects in each, and several more with less than 100 items. Have students guess which jars hold 100 items.
15. Find a coloring picture of a dog. Color it with 100 spots.
16. Download and print these hidden 100 picture pages.
17. Write a list of 100 friends.
18. Compose a poem with exactly 100 words or a limerick with exactly 100 letters.
19. Cut 100 paper hearts to tack to a bulletin board (and you’re ready for Valentine’s Day.)
20. Do this 100th day maze.

 

 

Hundredth-Day-of-School Work/Play Ideas:

1. Bring 100 12″ dowels and add paper arrowheads and feathers, then write an act of kindness on each arrowhead. Make a poster with “The Arrow and the Song” poem, then staple arrows shooting outward from poem.
2. Scavenger hunt. Hide 100 items.
3. Tape numbers 1 to 100 on floor. Use math equations to play: Call out “5” (child on 5) “plus 20” (child moves to 25.) “Plus ? to 100?”
4. Dice Game. Student rolls die, writes number, then adds them to 100. How many rolls to reach 100?
5. Draw graphs with 10 by 10 squares. Write a number in each square (1 to 100). Play “bingo.” First line of 10 wins.
6. Bring 100 tin cans, milk jugs or paper cups. Build a structure such as an igloo with water filled, frozen milk jugs!
7. Each child lists how they’d spend $100.
8. How much money would the school have if each student brought $100? What could they buy with that money?
9. Bring a vintage model airplane. Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart were famous in the 1920s. Then read their stories.
10. Tutankhamen’s tomb: discovered 1922. Look up in encyclopedia.
11. Read about Alexander Fleming, since he accidentally discovered penicillin 100 years ago.
12. Climb a (short) pole. 100 years ago people competed to see how long they could stay on a flagpole.
13. Draw an Art Deco-style picture.
14. 100 days smarter. As a class, list 100 things they learned this school year.
15. Memorize Psalm 100. (Only 5 verses.)
16. Bring Raggedy Ann dolls or Teddy bears which became popular 100 years ago.
17. Read “The Velveteen Rabbit”, “Winnie the Pooh”, Boxcar Children or Hardy Boys books: all written in the 1920s.
18. Talk or read about things that have changed since the 1920s: discrimination; child labor; etc.
19. Songs written in 1920s: “This Little Light of Mine.” “London Bridges” and “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.”
20. Read “Miss Bindergarten Celebrates 100 Days of Kindergarten.”

 

 

Wear Hundredth-Day clothes:

1. A tee-shirt with a hundredth day logo like this one or this one.
2. Wear 100 ribbons or barrettes.
3. Stick 100 stars or hearts on your clothes.
4. Hundredth Day crowns or glasses.
5. Wear something that’s 100 years old, such as a pocket watch or glasses, etc. from the 1920s.
6. Dress up in clothes they’d have worn a century ago. (Check the picture below.)
7. Wear an Al Capone hat (tam-o-shanter), since he was an infamous crook in the 1920s.
8. Dress up like Henry Ford, who invented the assembly line to build cars one hundred years ago.
9. Carry a bat/baseball/glove and wear a baseball cap and jersey with the number 3, since Babe Ruth was a famous ball player in the 1920s and that was the number on his shirt.
10.  Dress up like a postal worker: Till the 1920s people could send children by mail to visit relatives! Read “Mailing May.”
11. Wear the jewel tone colors popular 100 years ago, such as jade green, emerald, deep red.
12. Dress up like a 100 year old person.
13. Stick 100 safety pins to a hat.
14. Wear a shirt with 100 googly eyes stuck on it.
15. Dress like you imagine people will dress 100 years from now.

 

 

 

Food Ideas for Hundredth-Day-of-School:

1. Arrange a sub sandwich and 2 pizzas to look like “100.” (See below.)
2. Count out 100 Cheerios or Froot Loops then make edible necklaces.
3. Bring Kool-Aid and Wonder Bread P+B sandwiches. Both were invented in the 1920s.
4. Have a charcoal barbecue: Kingsford charcoal briquettes company began a hundred years ago.
5. Have Hostess cakes for dessert. Invented circa 1925.
6. Eat Wheaties for snack, another 1920s invention.
7. Have pre-sliced bread. It was invented in Missouri in 1928, where we get the saying, “Best invention since sliced bread.”
8. Collect 100 items of food to donate to a food pantry. (They’re usually running low after the Holidays.)
9. Have 10 children place an olive on each finger and thumb: 100 olives.
10. Create a page with 10 large circles and then have students count 10 snack items into each circle.
11. Have each student bring a baggie with 100 pieces of an ingredient for snack mix. Then mix everyone’s items and refill their baggies with the “Surprise Snack Mix.”
12. Place fruit pieces onto a charcuterie board in the shape of “100.” Help them scoop fruit into an ice cream cone and then top with yogurt or whipped cream. (Um, eat over a plate?)
13. Layer small snack items in mason jars, for example 10 fruit loops, 10 cheerios, 10 raisins, 10 pretzel bites, and so on until they have 10 layers of 10 items in their jars.
14. Place 100 mini marshmallows on wooden skewers.
15. Have a cake with 100 candles.

 

 

Hundredth-Day-of-School Game Ideas:

1. Draw a hop-scotch with the numbers 1 to 100.
2. Try to do 100 jumping jacks.
3. Glue a shape onto construction paper with 100 toothpicks.
4. Build a structure with 100 popsicle sticks.
5. Play Prisoner’s Base, then count by 10s to 100 to free prisoners.
6. Set a timer for 100 seconds and run in place till the timer goes.
7. Ask students to predict where 100 steps would place them. Then step it out to see if they’re correct.
8. Make a clothespin fort: Try to place 100 clothespins around the top of a box.
9. Balloon release: Add a note with your school name and address to 100 balloons, then blow up, seal, and send off to make new friends.
10. Workout: such as 10 jumping jacks, 10 sit ups, 10 toe touches, 10 squats, 10 burpees, etc. to 100
11. 100 yard dash. Make it a race with a prize. The race can be to the fastest, the slowest, backwards steps, etc., however you decide.
12. Jump rope 100 times.
13. Lemon Lime 100 times: With a long jump rope:  Lemon lime, on time, singing 1, 2, 3…. 10 (jumper hops out); 1, 2, 3… 10 (second jumper jumps 10 and hops out); etc.
14. Freeze tag: When players are caught, they freeze in place, count to 100 to be free to play again.
15. Cornhole: students line up and toss a bag. When 10 make 10 tosses into a hole game ends. Students drop out at 10.

 

 

What are Hundredth-Day-Of-School Activities

you’ve done in your school?

Please share in the comments.

And then if you want to save our list for next year, we’d love you for it!