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Back to School Classmate Scavenger Hunts Find a Friend Who Icebreaker Activities

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(56 customer reviews)

Energize your classroom with our Classmate Scavenger Hunts! 🕵️‍♂️ With 15 dynamic and editable activities, they’re perfect for building a strong classroom community. These hunts encourage students to interact, share holiday experiences, and move around, making them ideal ice-breakers. Use them all year round to maintain a lively and connected classroom atmosphere. ✨

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Back to School Classmate Scavenger Hunts Find a Friend Who Icebreaker Activities

 

Help students move, talk, laugh, and connect with these classmate scavenger hunts for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. These ready-to-use icebreaker activities make it easy for students to learn more about one another while walking around the classroom and collecting signatures or initials.

Each activity follows a simple “Find Someone Who” or “Find a Friend Who” format. Students read each prompt, find a classmate who matches it, and record that person’s name. The result is a low-prep activity that builds classroom community without putting students on the spot.

These classmate scavenger hunts work well during the first days of school, after a long break, or anytime your students need a fun way to reconnect.

 

⭐ What Are Classmate Scavenger Hunts?

During these activities, students walk around the room and talk with different classmates. They ask questions, share short answers, and collect names or initials based on the prompts on their page.

These activities help students:

• Meet classmates outside their usual friend group
• Practice speaking and listening skills
• Learn names, interests, and shared experiences
• Move around while staying focused on a clear task
• Build stronger teacher-student and student-student connections

Teachers can join the activity too. Your participation gives students another chance to get to know you while helping create a warm classroom environment.

 

📚 Use Them Throughout the School Year

This resource includes classmate scavenger hunts for several points in the school year, so you can use the same familiar activity format more than once.

Included themes:

• Back to School
• Get to Know You
• After Winter Break
• Back From Spring Break
• End of the Year

You will receive three ready-to-print versions and three editable templates. Use the prepared pages as they are, or adjust the editable versions to match your students, classroom routines, seasonal topics, or school events.

 

✨ Great For:

• Back-to-school icebreakers
• Classroom community building
• Morning work
• Brain breaks
• Indoor recess
• Open house activities
• First-week activities
• After-break connection activities
• End-of-year reflection and fun
• Quick time-fillers with a purpose

These classmate scavenger hunts give students a structured reason to speak with more classmates, not only their closest friends. The prompts keep conversations short and manageable, which works well for students who may feel nervous during open-ended icebreakers.

 

📦 What You’ll Receive

• Multiple seasonal scavenger hunt activities
• Three ready-to-print versions
• Three editable templates
• Activities designed for grades 3 to 5
• A downloadable ZIP file

Please preview the resource before purchasing so you can review the layouts and included activity styles.

 

💬 What Teachers Are Saying

Teachers report that students enjoy moving around the room, meeting classmates, and learning more about their teacher. They also appreciate the different versions because they can shorten the activity, extend it, or customize the prompts.

One teacher shared that the name box helped students learn how to spell one another’s names correctly. Other teachers used the activity during the first month of school, after breaks, and even on the last day of class.

Use these classmate scavenger hunts when you need a simple, engaging activity that helps students connect, move, and feel more comfortable in your classroom.

 

These scavenger hunts and boards are saved in a zip file. Check the PREVIEW!

 

 

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56 reviews for Back to School Classmate Scavenger Hunts Find a Friend Who Icebreaker Activities

  1. Kate M. –

    My students are obsessed with these scavenger hunts and are so excited when we have an opportunity to do another one!

  2. Laura C. –

    Awesome activities for the first week of school. These activities kept my students engaged and got them out of their seats to get the wiggles out.

  3. Rita A. –

    This was a great end-of-the-year resource. Students were engaged.

  4. Lilies and Laughter –

    Thank you for creating this resources. It has made my teaching life easier!

  5. Jessica W. –

    This was an easy, no prep activity for after Spring Break!

  6. Mike K. –

    Awesome resource just what I needed very low prep! I will be using this again next year!

  7. Taylor W. –

    This was a great resource for back to school. It allowed for relationship building with students as well as for students to begin building a classroom community. I had students walk around the room with music playing and a timer which allowed for the activity to flow well.

  8. Alana Souto –

    Great resource. Easy to use and setup. Definitely worth it!

  9. Nina M. –

    Perfect for the first day back from winter break!

  10. Travers –

    Cute class building activity after break. Thank you.

  11. Desiree Ganz –

    This was the perfect back to school/first week of school activity!

  12. Personalized in Third –

    Great resource! This was well utilized in my classroom and benefited my students!

  13. Check Your Shelf –

    Absolute life saver for the first week of school! My students were so engaged!

  14. Chelsey Aaron –

    I used this resource to help my students get to know one another on the first week of school. They really enjoyed moving around and talking with their peers. Can’t wait to use it throughout the year!

  15. Paula S. –

    This was a fun activity for my summer school class!

  16. Joanna A. –

    10/10 recommend!! the students loved using it during school.

  17. Meredith G. –

    Wonderful resource, very well regarded by my students. Thanks so much for creating!!

  18. Sally D. –

    I really like this back to school scavenger hunt. It is a really nice get to know you activity. All of the options are relevant.

  19. Kristin C. –

    My students were engaged in this activity! Thank you for sharing!

  20. Tiffany Lee –

    I loved using this activity at the end of the year with my students.

  21. Callie A. –

    This was a perfect activity for the day we came back from spring break as a way to get kids up and moving around and chatting with each other about their breaks.

  22. Mrs Ouellet –

    My ESL classes loved this activity. They had fun.

  23. Sala B. –

    This was a great resource for returning from spring break. We have 2 weeks off which feels like a lifetime in the middle of the school year. Students really enjoyed reconnecting with one another and talking about what they did in the last two weeks. It was also a great opportunity for students get up and moving, a lot of students were groggy and tired the first day back, and this was a great energy booster.

  24. Candice N. –

    Loved this scavenger hunt. I used the editable version to make it more specific to my class this year and it was so fun. Easy to use. The kids actually enjoyed it as well.

  25. Megan R. –

    This was great as an activity for morning meeting the day we returned from spring break.

  26. Laura P. –

    I like that it is very inclusive and easy for kids to do on their own.

  27. Jessica M. –

    Fun activity that all students can participate in.

  28. Michelle T. –

    Used this as our morning meeting activity when we returned to school after Christmas break. Thanks!

  29. Michelle G. –

    This is a great resource and my students really enjoyed it!

  30. Jesus G. –

    This is a great resource and my students really enjoyed it!

  31. teach with passion –

    My students were able to learn more about their classmates! Amazing product!

  32. Nicole –

    I will use this every year. The kids were engaged but did not get too rowdy and there was something all students could relate to. Thanks.

  33. Mariah M. –

    Kids loved this!

  34. Kaylee L. –

    What a great getting to know you activity.

  35. Brittany H. –

    My students loved this and so did I.

  36. AZteacher49 –

    Very helpful resource for what we are studying.

  37. Betsy P –

    Great scavenger hunt to complete after returning from winter break. My class really enjoyed it!

  38. Allen A. –

    definitely a keeper to use every year. Thank you! It’s hard to find “get-to-know-you” activities that my high schoolers actually like 🙂 lol

  39. Grace’s Primary Finds –

    loved using this in conjunction with my ABC countdown

  40. Carol Ann F. –

    Great back to school activity.

  41. Brandi Pernisi –

    This was a great resource! Thank you so much for taking time to create this product! Such a time saver!

  42. Jessah R. –

    Great get to know you/relationship building activity! I used this with my students during the first month of school.

  43. Vivian D. –

    Great resource!

  44. Julie H. –

    Thank you so much!

  45. Melanie I. –

    Great resource. Thanks

  46. Lauren Devery –

    This was a great resource for my students on the first couple days of school! Thank you!!!!

  47. Ginger L. –

    Students loved completing this activity! Good way to get to know each other and get moving! Even a great way to get to know the teacher!

  48. Alison D. –

    My 4th graders loved this activity for the beginning of the school year!

  49. Giggling with Gardenhire –

    These are such great activities when you get back from a break or summer!

  50. Victor S. –

    My students love back-to-school scavenger hunts, and this product conveniently adapts the event for multiple times in the school year! I like how there are three different versions of each scavenger hunt, which can either make the activity shorter or extend it with customable boxes. The “Your name” box is especially helpful so that students learn how to spell each other’s names correctly.

  51. Glenela Rajpaul –

    Scavenger hunt on the last day. Students loved it!

  52. Sweta R. –

    Great resource, thank you!

  53. Mary N. –

    My firsties may have been a little too young for this at the beginning of the year, but with help they enjoyed it, especially if we had a new student, or needed a kindness reminder.

  54. Gayle S. –

    Great Resource!

  55. Jene H. –

    A great idea that is easy to use right away!

  56. Narissa S. –

    My students have so much fun doing these.

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