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Back To School Game (FREE Printable Activity)

31st July 2025 by Kate Williams | Leave a Comment

Looking for a fun activity for the first week of school? Grab our free printable back to school game and hunt for the missing homework?

This two player game is easy and quick to prep, just download the PDF file and grab a couple of markers and you’re ready to get started, you don’t even need to find a dice.

Back to school game free printable

What You'll Find on This Page

  • Back To School Game
  • Supplies Needed
  • How To Do Your School Treasure Hunt
  • More Free Back To School Printables
  • How To Get Your Free Printable Back To School Game

Back To School Game

This printable game is perfect for using at home in the lead up for the return to school or of course you can use it in classrooms. Once you’ve downloaded the file you can print as many copies as you like and it’s a great way to get kids communicating with each other and making new friends!

While I’ve called this a back to school game you’ll notice that on the printable itself we’ve  just called it a missing homework treasure hunt so if you need something to do with the kids later in the school year this is still a great option for you to use.

Supplies Needed

  • School game PDF file
  • Two sheets of white paper
  • Marker pens

How To Do Your School Treasure Hunt

Start by printing out two copies of the game, one for each player. Each player needs to take a pen and draw their hidden homework somewhere in a box in the bottom grid. You can draw a sheet of paper or just mark an X – whatever works best for you.

Fold up the bottom half of your game sheet so that your opponent can’t see where you’ve hidden your homework.

Now it’s time to guess where the other players homework is hidden so take it in turns to ask questions like ‘Is your homework hidden on the bookcase?’

If the answer is no then you can cross out all of the squares in the bookcase but if they answer yes then next time you might want to try and get a little more specific, is the homework on a shelf with a yellow book?

Once you think you know where the homework is hidden you can give the specific grid reference, for example ‘Is your homework hidden in D3?’

The winner is the first person to correctly guess the location of their opponents homework.

More Free Back To School Printables

To help you get ready for the start of the school year we’ve  shared lots of free back to school printables perfect for those first days back in the classroom.

This reading scavenger hunt is a fun way to encourage kids to read more books and they can color in each item as they try a book with a new theme including sport, aliens and books about friendship.

Color and count with our I spy school printable featuring calculators, backpacks and scissors amongst other items to find.

Our all about me printable is a great way for kids to find out more about their new classmates with room to fill out your favorite food, something that they’re really good at and a place they love to go.

Don’t forget to grab the coloring materials so that they can draw that all important self portrait too!

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