[For Middle School Students] A Collection of Recreation Ideas to Liven Up Farewell Parties
A farewell party where you look back on a year’s memories and spend precious time with the classmates who shared the same classroom.
By expressing gratitude to teachers and friends and taking part in lively recreation, the memories become even deeper.
In this article, we’ll introduce recreation ideas that the whole class can enjoy.
From activities you can take your time with indoors to ones that get you moving outside, we’ve handpicked games and activities especially recommended for junior high school students.
To make the farewell party even more exciting—by exchanging letters and sharing words of thanks—be sure to give these a try.
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[For Junior High Students] A Collection of Recreation Ideas to Liven Up a Farewell Party (11–20)
Came Alone Game
One game that really livens up a farewell party is the “I Came Alone” game.
Participants go clockwise, raising their hands and saying “I came alone,” increasing the number of people from the first person onward.
After the count reaches five people, it resets back to one, and if you raise your hand at the wrong timing, you’re out.
Because it moves along briskly even in a short time, the moment someone makes a mistake, laughter ripples through the classroom.
The rules are simple, so even younger students can join easily, and part of the fun is enjoying everyone’s reactions.
The nervous excitement of keeping the tempo makes this a game that energizes any farewell gathering.
Teacher impersonation
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Not only your classmates who spent time with you in the classroom, but your teachers are also important people who supported you throughout the year.
As a sign of respect for those teachers, try doing impressions that capture memorable words or behaviors.
The key to making it exciting is to recreate scenes that many people can relate to, so it’s best to consider not only your own impressions but also those of people around you.
Since the very fact that something becomes a “bit” means it drew attention, even if you play it for laughs, it can still be something that moves and delights your teachers.
Whose Voice Game
Form several teams, and have the representative team come to the front.
One person will make a sound, and the other teams should keep their eyes closed and listen.
The game is to guess whose voice it is.
If the entire team guesses correctly, they earn 1 point! Repeat this, and the team with the most points at the end wins.
The team making the sound should disguise their voice or do impressions to make it hard to tell who it is.
Prepare paper or mini whiteboards for everyone to write their guesses.
Doing it as an individual competition is also recommended.
Russian roulette
It’s a game where one different item is hidden among a bunch of similar-looking foods, and everyone has fun trying to guess who got the odd one out.
Test your luck, and also pay attention to how people react when they pick the “losing” piece.
Spicy or sour bites are classic choices for the odd one out, but if you’re good with those flavors, you might try to keep a straight face so others won’t notice.
You can also use this as a little fortune-telling game to see if you’re the type who tends to draw the short straw.
after-the-fact rock-paper-scissors
If you’re looking for a casual, equipment-free recreation, how about after-the-fact rock-paper-scissors? It might sound too simple, but it’s surprisingly engaging! With rock-paper-scissors, we instinctively want to win.
Because we usually play with winning in mind, being required to “lose” when you go second suddenly makes it much tougher.
Of course, you can also set the condition to “win”! This fast-paced game—where you keep winning or keep losing—really fires up a crowd, and turning it into a tournament makes it a hit even with large groups!
Giant fukuwarai with the teacher’s face
This is an activity where you play Fukuwarai—a classic New Year’s game—using the teacher’s face as the theme.
Since you’ve spent a lot of time with the teacher, you’ve probably had many chances to see their face and remember even the finer details.
However, because you can only rely on your sense of touch to figure out which piece you’re holding and where to place it, getting close to the correct arrangement seems difficult.
Rather than aiming for a perfect result, it might be more exciting to see how the teacher’s face gets scrambled and whether it turns into a funny face.
[For Middle School Students] A Collection of Recreation Ideas to Liven Up Farewell Parties (21–30)
Anything Basket
A game where everyone sits on chairs in a circle and moves if they match the given prompt.
There’s one fewer chair than the number of participants, so the person left without a seat chooses the next prompt, and everyone needs to move quickly without spilling out of the circle.
Picking the right kind of prompt is key—questions that delve a bit into people’s private lives can be fun, too.
Through the game, you might discover surprising sides of each other that you didn’t know, even after spending a long time together.