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New Year’s events are a simple opportunity to explore celebration, creativity and goal setting. From tiny time capsules to word visions that sparkle like fireworks, these activities help students dream big. Each activity is easily modified and suitable for all ages, so every new year starts with good intentions.
Write New Year’s Resolutions to Start January
The beginning of a new year is a rare time when learners, from the shyest first-year students to the most skeptical seniors, are willing to reflect and start over. Use this momentum to create a meaningful resolution writing activity to help students reconnect after a break and refocus in the months ahead.
Younger students might decorate holiday resolution crowns or complete simple clamshell booklets, while emerging writers benefit from sentence starters and graphic organizers. Teens can dig deeper with a reflective writing prompt for high school students that challenges them to examine their habits and their future. Regardless of age, the New Year’s Resolutions curriculum provides a way to celebrate while aligning with ELA’s CCSS.
2026 New Year’s Resolution Event – 2026 Writing and Bulletin Board Display
Author: First’s Happy Hour
Grade: K-3
This resource includes interactive flap resolutions, resolution writing, crown decorations and coloring sheets. After students complete the activity, you can use their resolutions as a New Year’s bulletin board.
2025 New Year’s Resolution Return to school after winter break activities
Through reading and writing
Grade: Grades 6-12
Standard: CCSSRI.6.1, RI.6.2, RI.6.4
Differentiate your instruction with context clue activities and short comprehension questions about solutions. Students can also complete follow-up writing tasks to reflect on their goals. This versatile resource is available in printable and digital slide formats and includes answer keys.
New Year’s Resolution Writing, Digital New Year’s Reading Comprehension Worksheet
Author: core coach
Grade: 1-2
Standard: CCSSRI.1.1, RI.1.2, RI.1.4
This comprehensive course integrates reading passages with audio support, interactive activities, reflective writing prompts, and quizzes. It’s designed for maximum flexibility, so you can use it as a print resource or a completely digital event.
Design a vision board for the coming year
New Year’s activities can help students visualize the year they want to create. Young learners can start with simple posters to express the school’s goals and aspirations. As students grow, a vision board can include personal, academic, and social growth. High school students can create digital vision boards using imagery, symbolism, and personal statements to express their goals.
New Year Poster Ideas
Author: Kara’s Creative Playground
Grade: 1-4
Help students reflect on the past year and look forward to the next year with this interactive poster project. With a flip-up lid and plenty of space to share their thoughts, this is one of those New Year’s activities for kids that’ll instantly get primary school children excited about the future.
Explore New Year’s traditions from around the world
Not all New Year’s celebrations look the same, and that’s part of the fun! Elementary school students can explore global customs, such as how to celebrate the Lunar New Year, through simple stories and engaging crafts.
Older students can go a step further and examine cultural practices, compare celebration styles, and examine the implications of these traditions for countries such as Germany, Brazil, and China. Once completed, they will have a vivid understanding of how the ball falls around the globe.
DIGITAL hosts Año Nuevo Las Doce Uvas 12 grape event for Spanish New Year
Sla Cruz
Grade: Grades 9-12
Introduced to high school students new years and old night The tradition of eating 12 grapes for good luck. This versatile digital and print resource includes three writing templates, allowing students to come up with 12 DeseosOr New Year’s greetings – there’s one for every grape.
Host a New Year’s Day Class Challenge
New Year’s Challenges are a fun way to start the new year and help high school and elementary school students set goals. They can be adapted to any grade level, such as primary schools with mini activity stations and daily achievements, while older students can work on research projects or complete reflective journals. Adjusting complexity ensures every student is inspired.
New Year’s Task Card 2026: Science Edition – Print and Digital
By: Kayla Renee’ – Bright in the Middle
Grade: 6-8
This exciting New Year’s activity includes 16 task cards to help students reflect on the science of the past year and set goals for the future. It’s not just science; They also reflect on and set goals for their personal lives.
Create time capsules and keepsakes of your goal setting
Hands-on keepsakes help capture the magical wonder of the future. Elementary school students can create colorful time capsules using drawings and snapshots. Middle and high school students might write letters to their future selves or create a timeline of the past year and hopes for the next year. These activities provide tangible reminders of growth and goals to revisit later.
New Year’s Resolution Activity | Language Learning Goal Setting Card
a teachable year
Grade: second grade to fourth grade
Get your English learners involved with this New Year’s Grammar Pack focused on future predictions. These goal-setting activities for elementary school students help build vocabulary, strengthen speaking skills, and provide speaking and writing practice.
Free New Year 2026 Bookmarking and Goal Setting (English and Spanish) TPT Ease
Reading Past Bedtime by Norma Lewis
Grade: second grade to sixth grade
These New Year activity sheets include a phone selfie drawing sheet, a short goal writing activity, and a growth mindset bookmark. Best of all, it’s available in English and Spanish.
2026 New Year Reflection and Goal Setting Activities Middle School and High School One Pager
by Kathy Travis
Grade: Grades 6-12
This personal one-page reflection worksheet is suitable for any middle school curriculum. Students use countdown-style lists to reflect on the past year and set goals for the year ahead, as a prewriting activity to help them create meaningful New Year’s resolutions.
Try a quick and easy New Year’s activity
Minimum preparation time? These activities have all the fun of ringing in the New Year and can easily be adapted for any age.
- One word vision board
- time capsule notes
- Goal selfie
- Emoji reflection
- countdown list
- wishing wall
- New Year playlist
- Reflective bracelet
- reflection bookmark
- Resolution flip card
- Beginning of new year story
- wishing balloon
- New Year collage
Enjoy creative and fun New Year activities on TPT
From sparkling goals to vision boards filled with endless possibilities, New Year’s events are a launch pad for creativity and classroom magic. They turn the first day of January into a celebration of growth and imagination. Pop the confetti, grab the markers, and let your students dive into these New Year’s resources created by their teachers.
