Fun Senior Class Activities

Senior graduation shouldn't be the only activity seniors look forward to.

Senior year of high school should go out with a bang, a time when seniors can come together and celebrate the 13 years they put in to their education and say goodbye to old friends. Senior class activities are a way seniors can spend some nonacademic time relishing their school years before moving on to the next stage in life, where they'll likely never see many of their classmates again.

Slide Show

If you like watching teenage girls tear up to cheesy, emotional music while images of the passing year flash on the screen, a senior slide show might just be the ticket. A slide show is a way for students to reflect on their four years of high school and come together in the accomplishment of graduating. To avoid having the slide show dominated by jocks and popular kids, ask all the students to submit appropriate photos of themselves in and out of school and limit all sports-related pictures to one segment. By separating the slide show into sections, you give all students an opportunity to appear on screen.

Lockdown

A senior lockdown is a great way to get all the seniors together for a supervised evening together. This can usually be done in the school gym with a limited number of volunteers. A lockdown is usually just a sleepover at school for the entire senior class where they bring sleeping bags and camp out at school. You can run the lockdown from the early evening until the following morning. You can begin the lockdown with a pizza party and move on from there. You can separate the seniors into teams and have competitions or a game of trivia posing questions relevant to the class, school or pop culture.

Competition Day

A way to rally your seniors together is to put them in a senior competition day. Break up your competition into a number of categories, from flag football to a pie eating contest. Have your seniors sign up for a few events they'd like to participate in and then organize an itinerary that will keep them in a designated area of the school so seniors can move from event to event and cheer on their classmates. Have a barbecue lunch in the middle, and at the end of the day tally up points and have a final ceremony in front of the entire school.

References

• The Daily Tarheel: Senior class officer platforms focus on fun, service