Description
Time Capsule Activities and Ideas for Kids:
These time capsule activities are perfect for All About Me activities at the beginning or end of the year, or for New Year’s Eve, because they provide everything you need for a snapshot of your students’ lives!
This Time Capsule activity includes the following items:
- How to Use this Packet
- Covers- Time Capsule and All About Me
- The Basics
- Snapshot of the U.S.A.
- This is Me! (Boy and Girl Version)
- My Family
- Best and Worst Thing
- Things I Love
- My Future
- This is How I Feel
- A Typical Saturday
- Filling My Brain
- The Size of My Hand
- The Size of My Foot
- World News
- A Letter to Myself
- A Letter to a Loved One
- Newspaper Article
- Autobiography
- That’s Funny!
- Ten Adjectives
- Being a Kid
- Responsibilities
These are a few ideas that are included as part of the packet:
1. Use this packet as a beginning-of-the-year or end-of-the-year ALL ABOUT ME or TIME CAPSULE unit.
- Each student can make a book and use the ALL ABOUT ME or TIME CAPSULE cover.
- Pick and choose which pages to use at different times during the year.
- Use the worksheets at literacy stations as they fit into your lessons.
- Use the completed booklet as Mother’s Day or Father’s Day gifts from students.
2. Use this packet as a TIME CAPSULE activity.
- Each student can make a book and use the TIME CAPSULE cover.
- Pick and choose which pages to use for the time capsule as a long-term activity.
- Roll up the pages and place them in a canister (Pringles canisters covered in paper work well) for a time capsule container.
- Decide how long students should wait to reopen their time capsule.
NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL OPTION!
This product includes a digital option (as well as the no-prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.
This PDF file contains 36 pages + Google Slides.








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Gretchen B –
Great activity for the first week of school!
Heather B –
I was so excited to find this. I use to do one with my students that I did when I was in school. But after a 5 year break, I came back to find out that file and all copies had been thrown out. Your version has a lot of the same things and even more. Thank you!
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Rebecca M –
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