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End of Year Wordle Gift for Students

I have been fortunate enough to have some great students thus far into my teaching career! Last year’s group of 6th graders was especially special because they were the first group of sixth graders I’d taught in my career andย they were just amazing students. So I wanted to do something special to let them know how much I cared and to show them that their classmates care about them! (After all, middle school can be a rough time in anyone’s life. I know those are the years I would definitely notย want to repeat!)

The wordle site I used to use in no longer an option. However, check out Word It Out, as I think it looks the most promising. Tagxedo is another option, but it’s picky about what browsers it will work with. Unfortunately I don’t have the knowledge with these programs to help you troubleshoot.

wordle gift for students

So that’s where the idea of creating Wordleย giftย for each student came into play! Here’s what my finished products looked like —ย 

Are you looking for a great end of year school gift that your students can give to one another? Then you're going to love Wordles! Find out how you can DIY these pretty easily with very little expense by clicking through! Great for your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12 grade students!These were much easier to do than I initially expected. First, I gave each student a sheet of paper with each of their classmates’ names listed. They were told to write at least two positive character traits about each person, excluding themselves. (You could raise or lower this number based on the number of students in your class.) I also projected a list of character traits on the overhead so we wouldn’t get the typical boring words (nice, cool, fun, awesome, etc) the whole time.


I then took the sheets home and never mentioned them again to the students. {We probably completed the sheets three weeks before school was out – plenty of time for them to forget! ๐Ÿ˜‰ }

The next step was to take the words the students had written and enter them into Wordle.(I also added my own words into the mix!) I started by typing the student’s name in eight times. I found that was the number I needed to make their name large enough, but you’ll have to play around with it a little bit to see what works best for you.ย 

So their name was in there eight times, the word cool might have been six times, nice was four times, fun two times, and awesome just once.
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Hopefully the above paragraph gives you a little better idea of how Wordle works. You’ll be able to play around with the colors to match your school colors, the student’s favorite color, or simply print in black and white. You can also change the fonts and the orientation to be portrait or landscape. It was actually fun to play around with! (That or maybe I’m a bit of a dork!)

Once I had the words displayed the way I wanted them, I took a screen shot. This screen shot was then put into Paint where I could crop it to the right dimensions to order prints. My prints were expensive at $0.40 each, but you can get them for $0.10 each if you shop around. The final step was to put them into the $1 frames I had bought at Wal-Mart. The hardest part was not blurting out to my students what they were going to get on the last day of school. I could hardly contain my excitement about these wonderful gifts!

Are you looking for a great end of year school gift that your students can give to one another? Then you're going to love Wordles! Find out how you can DIY these pretty easily with very little expense by clicking through! Great for your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade students!The last day of school was so precious. I literally had students tearing up when they saw these. They couldn’t stop ooh’ing and ahh’ing about their own frames, but they also wanted to check out everyone else’s. I also heard from several parents that the students really enjoyed them. I truly hope they are something these students cherish for the next few years because I know their peers can sometimes be hard on them, and they can be even harder on themselves.

If you still have questions about how to make these, feel free to leave a question in the comments below.

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Filed Under: 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th Grade, 6th grade, building student relationships, end of year, gifts, High School, Middle School

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  1. Tanya Braybrook says

    May 16, 2014 at 3:06 pm

    What a fantastic idea! I think this would be wonderful for any age! Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Heather W says

    May 16, 2014 at 11:55 pm

    There is a key on your computer for taking a screen shot. It's called Print Screen, and it probably says something like "PrtSc". Just click on that, then open up a program like Paint. From there you would want a 4×6 picture to be 540×360 pixels. It did take me awhile to figure out how to get the dimensions perfect. However, this is actually the second year I've done these as a student gift and it was MUCH easier! Good luck! Ask away if you have further questions. ๐Ÿ™‚

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  3. MsHampton says

    May 16, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    How do you take a screen shot? I LOVE this idea and I guess I'm a dork too because I've already made one for our principal and played around with fonts. I would really like to get them to print out on 3×5 or 4×6 but cant figure out how to do that. Help?

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  4. Technology in Education says

    May 18, 2014 at 2:52 pm

    I've done this the last couple of years as well. I got my basic black frames at the Dollar Tree. I used Jing to capture just the wordle puzzle so I didn't have to do much cropping. Pasted it into a word doc and set the size for 4×6 and printed two per page. Easy Peasy!!

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  5. Pam Golliher says

    May 20, 2014 at 11:08 pm

    I've done this for three years now. Love it!

    Reply
  6. Miss Monica says

    July 1, 2016 at 1:56 pm

    Hi Heather!

    Thanks for linking up! Your idea is fantastic!

    Monica

    http://www.iheartgrade3.com
    http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/I-Heart-Grade-3

    Reply
  7. Temtope says

    June 2, 2017 at 6:52 am

    Good afternoon . How do i get the wordle site to print their names and the traits. I will love to do it for my class.

    Reply
    • HoJo says

      June 5, 2017 at 9:38 am

      Take a screenshot. Then copy that screenshot into a program you’re comfortable using (for me it’s PowerPoint). From there, get it saved as a 4×6 print (or whatever size frame you intend to use). Save it as a jpeg. Upload to your favorite online photo print service. Order. ๐Ÿ™‚ Good luck!!

      Reply
  8. Richelle says

    May 18, 2020 at 12:59 pm

    When did you get these fRames? Do you hbe the brand name or link to them please?

    Reply
    • HoJo says

      June 30, 2020 at 12:43 pm

      I bought these frames about eight years ago, so I no longer have access to the brand names. I know I got them at a dollar store, but I can’t even remember which ones. Maybe something like this – https://www.dollartree.com/special-moments-two-tone-matted-photo-frames-4×6-in/225435 ??? Good luck!

      Reply

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