After School Program Lesson Plan Template

How it works

This after school program lesson plan template opens on one activity: lines for Activity, Date, Age group, Group size, Time and Space, then boxes for Goal, Materials, Set-up, Steps, Wrap-up, and changes for younger and older children.

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Plan one activity

Press Print the lesson plan. Fill in who the activity is for and where it happens, then what to set out before the children arrive. The last box holds a simpler version and a harder one, for a room of mixed ages.

A week or a month in blocks

An afternoon here runs in blocks, not lessons. The week sheets put Arrival and snack, Homework help, Enrichment, Active play and Pick-up down the side with Monday to Friday across, and the month sheet gives each week one line of themes.

Run different blocks? The blank week has five empty rows under a Block heading.
The one-afternoon sheet adds Time, Space and Who leads beside each block.

Questions and answers

What is in an after-school lesson plan?

Here, an activity plan (goal, materials, set-up, steps, wrap-up, changes by age) and a schedule in blocks. The sample is a filled-in week with a kite project in the Enrichment row.

Is there a lesson plan template for an after school program week?

Yes. Three blank week sheets print sideways with Monday to Friday across: one with five named blocks, one with a Time column added, and one with the rows left empty.

Does it follow a licensing form?

No. These are our own planning sheets. They copy no agency's or funder's form, and Group size, Time and Space are blanks.

Can I plan clubs or enrichment classes?

Yes. The enrichment sheet lists six activities for the week with Day, Space, Leader, Group size and Materials columns.

All 10 sheets

One activity 3

After-school activity cards, two to a page Two short activity plans with a cut line between them. Each has Activity and Space lines and four boxes: Materials, Steps, Wrap-up and Changes by age.
After-school activity plan Lines for Activity, Date, Age group, Group size, Time and Space, then six headed boxes: Goal, Materials, Set-up, Steps, Wrap-up, and For younger and older children.
After-school activity plan, five boxes with arrows Five full-width boxes down the page with an arrow from each to the next: Materials and set-up, Steps, Wrap-up, For younger children and For older children. Activity, Date and Group lines at the top.

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A week, or one afternoon, by block 5

After-school plan for one afternoon One day down the page: the five blocks as rows, with columns for Time, Activity, Space and Who leads. Program, Date and Staff lines at the top.
After-school week, blank blocks Monday to Friday across and five empty rows under a Block heading, to write in your own blocks.
After-school week, five blocks from arrival to pick-up A sideways page with Monday to Friday across and five named rows: Arrival and snack, Homework help, Enrichment, Active play and Pick-up. Program, Week of and Theme lines at the top.
After-school week, five blocks with a Time column The same five rows with a narrow Time column before Monday, for a program that posts when each block starts.
Enrichment activities for the week, 6 rows A sideways list of the week's clubs or enrichment activities: Activity, Day, Space, Leader, Group size and Materials.

A month of themes 1

After-school themes for the month, one line a week A sideways page with rows Week 1 to Week 5 and columns for Theme, Enrichment activities, Active play and Materials to get.

Filled-in sample 1

Sample: an after-school week on wind and kites, filled in Sample. The five-block week filled in for a made-up program, to show a few words in each box: a kite project in Enrichment from Monday to Friday.

How this list was compiled: Laid out in-house for this page on October 2, 2026, as plain forms to fill in by hand. The headings are ordinary planning words, and no district's, publisher's or program's form is copied. The block names are common ones in after-school programs; no licensing agency's or funder's form is copied and none is named. The sample week is made up. Licence: own work