100th Day of School Archives

100th Day of School Printable for Kids to Explore

January 14, 2017 By Deirdre

We have the 100th Day of School celebration coming up at school soon. I thought I would make the primary teachers in my school a fun 100th Day School printable that they could work on as part of the celebration. The printable features 100 small school themed objects displayed on the numbers that make up 100.

What are the objects on the 100th Day of School printable?

tape dispenser
crayon
apple
pencil
glue stick

How to Explore 100 With the 100th Day of School Printable

While you could simply have your children use the 100th Day of School Printable as a coloring page, there are several other ways that they could use it to explore 100. Let me share with you some of the ideas I came up with.

Counting Each Object

You can have your children count how many of each of the objects appear on the printable. They can start by drawing their own picture of each object. Then they place a tally mark beside each of the pictures for each time that find that picture in the 100.

Coloring the Objects

Children may need color pencils to color in each of the pictures. (I found a set of thick colored pencils young children can use. They are called Crayola 8ct Write Start Colored Pencils.)

Adding the Objects

Younger children can count up how many objects are in each of the numbers. Older children could count up the number of object in each number and then create a three digit addition fact with those number. Then they can add up the three numbers.

Here are some more wonderful 100th Day of School activities and crafts

Activities For 100th Day of School Celebrations

100th Day of School Songs to Sing

Fun New Twist on the 100th Day of School

100 Objects You Could Send into School

100 Days of School Shirt

100 Days of School Craft- Gumball Machine

January 25, 2016 By Deirdre

A gumball machine holding 100 paper gumballs would be such fun to make for the 100th Day of school. It is really simple to make! All you need are several sheets of construction paper, white copy paper, scissors, and some glue

We started by cutting out the gumballs. Many gumballs could be cut out at the same time when we stack several pieces of colored paper on top of each other. That gave us the opportunity to cut out four or five gumballs at a time.

We cut out our gumballs free hand. You could trace circles on the sheet of paper and then cut out circles.

Young children will probably need the circles cut out for them. It may take too long for them to cut out the circles. It also might be hard for me to hold the stack of paper together while cutting.

Once you think you have 100 circles, you will count them. We put our circles into groups of ten. Then we counted the groups to make sure we had ten groups.

The gumball machine’s dome was made by cutting out a large circle out of the copy paper. With the dome cut out, we glued 99 gumballs inside the circle.

Hint:

We smeared glue all over the circle and ten randomly stuck the circles all over it. That way we didn’t have to glue down every circle.

When all the circles were in place, the dome was glued onto a piece of black paper. You could probably use any color of background paper.

A gumball base was cut out of green paper. Then a small slot was cut out of the base. The slot was to represent the place where a gumball comes out of a machine. The base was then glued in place.

Gumball number 100 was glued into the slot. I wanted to make it look like a gumball had just fallen down after 100 days in school.

Here are a number of other 100 Days of School activities:

100 Things to Send in for the 100th Day of School

Celebrate the 100th Day in 100 Ways100th Day of School Printables

100 Things to Send in for the 100th Day of School

January 18, 2016 By Deirdre

Children are often asked to bring a container or display of 100 items to school as part of the 100th Day of School celebration. Below you will find a list of loose items that you children can take 100 of to school. You will also find several ways your children can display 100 items below too. The displays could be on a t-shirt, poster board, or a piece of paper

Before Gathering Your 100 Items You Could Read a Book

Here are some wonderful books about 100 days in school or the 100th day!

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Food Items for the 100th Day of School

Beans
Noodles
Spaghetti
Split peas
Cereal rings
Candy hearts
Popcorn kernels
Pretzel sticks
Sugar cubes
Sugar packets
Smarties
Jelly beans
Crackers
Raisins
Skittles
Rice
Marshmallows
Sunflower seeds

Items Found in Your Craft or Learning Areas

Styrofoam peanuts
Water beads
LEGO
Magnetic letters
Plastic cookie cutters
Unfix cubes
Wiki sticks
Dominoes
Action figures
Jingle bells
Poker chips
Math counters
Wooden cubes
Checkers
Pom poms
Craft Gems
Spools of thread
Pieces of Yarn
Feathers
Buttons
Beads
Pretend Gold Coins
Pennies
Popsicle sticks
Wiggly eyes
Pipe cleaners

School Supplies for the 100th Day

Small stickers stuck to tens frames
Unsharpened pencils
Erasers
Index cards
Sticky notes
Pieces of paper
Crayons
Magic Markers
Paper
Hole reinforcement stickers
Paper clips

Shirt Ideas You Can Create for the 100th Day

Tally marks are drawn on a t-shirt made with fabric markers
LEGO brick prints of a shirt made with fabric paint
Smiles on a shirt make with fabric markers
Beads that are sewn onto a shirt

Kitchen and Bath Items for the 100th Day

Cupcake liners
Cotton balls
Cotton Swabs
Straws
Birthday candles
Coffee stirrers
Food labels
Bread tags
Twist ties
Package of paper bags
Paper cups
Paper napkins
Plastic spoons
Toothpicks
Bottle tops
Plastic lids
Canned drink tabs

Odds and Ends to Send for the 100th Day

Playing cards
Balloons
Screws
Metal nuts for bolts
Bolts
Metal Washers
Keys
Hairpins
Hair elastics for ponytails
Loom bands
Puzzle pieces
Drops of water in a small container with a lid and the dropper
Paper chain with 100 links

Items You can Display on Paper for the 100th Day

Fingerprints on paper with an ink pad
List of words you can read
Numbers on grid paper
Pictures from a magazine glued to a poster
Gumball machine on a poster with 1oo gumball circles placed in it.
Piggy bank drawn or glued on paper with hundred pennies drawn in it
Leopard drawn on paper with 100 spots
The night sky on paper with 100-star stickers
Centipede on paper with 100 legs
Pizza on paper with 100 construction paper toppings

Activities for the 100th Day of School

Activities For 100th Day of School Celebrations

100th Day of School Songs to Sing

Fun New Twist on the 100th Day of School

100th Day of School I Spy Printable

Here is a printable list of the 100 Things to Send to School for the 100th Day

100th Day of School Shirt Idea

January 28, 2015 By Deirdre

We were given the assignment by JDaniel’s teacher to come up with a t-shirt for him to wear to celebrate the 100th Day of school. After searching Pinterest for 100th Day of School shirt ideas, I came across a super shirt created by Really Quite Lucky. She used a Silhouette machine to create her shirt with 100 tally marks . I don’t happen to have one of those cool machines so, I needed to come up with some other way to replicate the tally mark idea for our shirt.

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After doing a little thinking, I decided that I could use fabric markers to draw tally marks on a shirt. We headed to one of the big box craft stores in our town to look over their selection of markers. They only had pastel colored markers. I had a 40% off coupon for that store so, I decided we would use what they hand rather than drive around town or order some on line. If I had it to do again I would have ordered Crayola Fabric Markers, they would have added more color to the shirt.

Actually there are some things I did while creating JDaniel’s 100th Day of School shirt that went well and some that I would do differently. I thought I would share them with you so you may make wiser shirt creation choices.

100th Day of School Shirt Choices

The Right Choices

I choose not to make the tally marks all in a row. By having them more random they filled up more of the shirt.

My sets of tally marks are not all the same size. I really didn’t want to have them be uniform.

I didn’t try to make each set neat. I like that each set is unique.

Hint
You may decide that random and unique is totally not want you want. If you would like nice straight uniform lines, you can use a ruler to mark of the areas for your tally marks on your shirt.

Wrong Choices

I really wish I have used bright colored markers. I know I mentioned that at the top of this post, but I felt like I need to say it again.

Not putting a piece of cardboard inside the shirt when I drew the tally marks on the shirt. The shirt has two tiny dots on the back due to the markers bleeding through. It doesn’t look terrible. I just wish they weren’t there.

While I like the randomness of the tally mark set, I do wish the peach set in the center of the last row lined up with the sets above it. I wish it was a little neater too.

If I made another shirt, I would probably make all of the sets of tally marks I little bigger. I don’t think it looks bad. It is just that bigger marks would have filled up more of the shirt.

I wish I had waited until the first layer of the marks had dried before trying to make some of the marks darker. The second layer of marks added to the not fully dry first set make the marks look a little fuzzy.