10 Easy Spanish Club Activities for High School

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If you’re new to hosting a Spanish club, you might be feeling overwhelmed. Where do you even start? Personally, I’d recommend starting with one event per month of the school year – with some wiggle room for the beginning of the year! Check out this list of 10 Spanish club activities for high school students.

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Keep the Fun Going with Even More Spanish Club Activities

Once you’ve tackled your first round of events, you might find your students asking, “What are we doing next?” That is a great sign. It means your club is working. Now is the perfect time to build on that momentum and keep the energy going with even more Spanish club activities your students will love.

Try hosting a Cultural Potluck Day where students bring in a dish from a Spanish-speaking country or research a recipe to share. If you’re tight on space or time, turn it into a “virtual potluck” where students present a slideshow of their recipe, ingredients, and cultural background. It’s food, fun, and learning all in one.

Another simple win? Plan a Spanish language scavenger hunt around your school or classroom. Create clues in Spanish and hide them in common areas. As students solve each clue, they practice vocabulary, teamwork, and critical thinking. End with a small prize or treat, and lots of high-fives.

10 Spanish Club Activities for High School

You can pick and choose from the list below! Repeat any of the activities that your students love and skip anything you don’t feel like doing. It’s up to you!

Everything you need to run each of these events is available for you in one time-saving download right here. Sign in sheets, editable posters, movie lists, trivia questions – you name it, you’ve got it!

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Check out the list of 10 Spanish club activities for high school students:

Snacks & selfies
Trivia
Bulletin boards
Design t shirt
Cooking
Café y charlar
Take a virtual field trip
Movie night
Music
Review games

Snack & Selfies

Purchase snacks, then split the cost and use as the “entry”, pull from membership dues, or tell students to bring something to munch on.

In a designated area, print and hang heart flags from Spanish-speaking countries. If you’d like, print and cut out the letters for the background! Props are optional, but they are a fun extra for this event.

Spanish club activities editable poster example

Hispanic Heritage Month Trivia Game Night

There is no cost for this event! Here is how to prep the event:

Print trivia cards and answer key, or use the digital version of the game to project
Split attendees into teams, or let them choose their own teams
Put a scoreboard on your white board
Teams take turns answering cards and get points for correct answers
Play until you are out of cards or out of time

You can also play some variations of this game to change things up:

Students are awarded points ala “Lucky Reading Game” style. After their team answers a question, they draw a card. They win or lose points based on the card they’ve drawn. See more info here!
Play the trivia “Silla Caliente” style. The teams sit in a straight line and everyone answers. They earn points based on their location in the team line. See more info here!

Design a Club T-Shirt

The cost of this event will depend on if you decide to get them made and printed, or if you’re just using this as a fun activity! Sometimes a local printing company will print things for you. If you choose to order them online, some options to explore include printful.com and printify.com, but there are more options out there. If students are excited about getting shirts made, encourage them to research and compare costs.

How it works:

Print blank t shirt pages for participants. You can pick from the blanks, or make copies of all of them for some variety.
Set out markers, crayons, colored pencils, and other coloring supplies
Give students time to design and decorate their shirts on the sheets. Some students might prefer to do this digitally, and that’s totally fine! Encourage that creativity and ownership!
Towards the end of your meeting, ask if anyone would like to share their design with the group.
If you plan on ordering, hang the designs somewhere in your room and number them. Club members can have time between this meeting and the next to vote on their favorite design.

Cooking with your Club

Cost of the event will depend on your region. Price out the the ingredients at your local grocery store of choice, then split the cost and use as the “entry fee”, or pull from membership dues.

Set Up:

Optional: Require an RSVP or reserved spot ahead of time so you can estimate attendance, or base the amount of food you purchase on attendance at previous events
Choose the recipe you’re going to prepare together
Print the recipe cards
Purchase ingredients and any additional materials needed. Some schools have a kitchen facility, others may need to bring or buy utensils and bowls
Divide students into equal sized groups based on attendance
Either set up stations with the ingredients and materials at each station, or let students come to an area, and take what they need to their space
Students prepare the recipe, then sample their work.

Café y Charlar

Purchase tea, hot chocolate, instant coffee, electric kettle (something like this can be relatively inexpensive and easy to keep in a department closet), then split the cost and use as the “entry”, pull from membership dues, or tell students to bring something to sip on.

Set Up:

Communicate the goal to attendees ahead of time: we’re going to practice our Spanish together while we relax and enjoy some warm beverages!
That’s it – this is relatively simple to set up. There are a few options for encouraging conversation if you have a quiet group:
- Set out a game to help them get started chatting. Here are some of my favorites!
- Use a would you rather generator to get conversations rolling. There are a few available in Spanish that I’ll link for you below, but there’s lots of lists and options online:
  - https://www.juego-que-prefieres.es/
  - https://psycatgames.com/es/app/would-you-rather/ — “Niños” category

I would recommend YOU being the person in charge of the website in case the question that pops up isn’t something appropriate for the group of students you’re working with – or any! It does help come up with some ideas to get the ball rolling, but I would not project it for them to see or read because of the random generator aspect and not being able to choose the questions ahead of time. If you are tapping through, you can just skip any question that doesn’t fit. This way you can also modify language as needed depending on who is in attendance.

Take a Virtual Field Trip

There is no cost associated with this event! Students need devices and access to Google My Maps and Youtube to participate.

Set Up:

Choose if you want the students to explore in Spanish, English, or choose on their own
If you’d like, print the graphic organizer and comprehension questions. You could also just let them explore!
Optional – instead of doing this as an individual activity, project the map on your screen and let one of the students “drive” and listen to the other attendees as they select markers and information to explore and discover together.

In the download, I’ve included a virtual field trip to Equatorial Guinea for your club to use for this event!

Watch a Movie

The cost will depend on if your department or school owns the movie you choose, or if you need to buy it with club funds. You can also choose to provide snacks or have students bring their own!

Set Up:

Choose the movie
Make sure you get permission to show it at school. This might be a form with admin, a permission slip students need to sign, or just checking with a department head. Every school is a little bit different about this, so just make sure you ask if you’re not sure about the procedure!
I’ve included a permission slip form in case your school requires you to send one. Just add the info on the lines provided and let students know they’ll need to bring a signed copy to come to the event.
Test the projector and sound ahead of time.

Enjoy Music

There is no cost associated with this event. Just stream some music together! This is one of my favorite Spanish club activities.

Set Up:

Set up a playlist or choose one you like.
Optional: If you think students might need some help chatting about the music, print the music response sheet. There are 2 options for you!

Playlist Resources:

You can, of course, use a playlist you already have. Here are a few more resources to help you choose some songs:

Spanish Plans Playlists on YouTube – check out the March Music Madness playlists. I particularly appreciate that he tries to include a variety of artists and genres, and only songs from that year!
Senorashby.com – A variety of playlists and brackets
Senorwooly.com – If you are a Wooly user, it might be a great time to include some songs you don’t plan on getting to in your curriculum
Mis Clases Locas Playlists on Youtube – The música miércoles playlist has around 800 songs, so I think you’ll be set for options if you’re still feeling stuck!

appropriate Spanish songs for high school students — Click here to check out a list of 33 appropriate songs for your high school Spanish students!

I always recommend previewing a song before playing it in class. You might not want to play the music video, you might choose just the lyrics, or you may skip a song altogether. You know your students and your setting best!

Make a Spanish Review Game

There is no cost associated with this event!

Set Up:

Grab a copy of the digital review game included in the download.
Make sure students know to bring a device to play along!
For the event, students will work individually, in pairs, or in small groups to make their own, self-correcting, digital review game. You can tell them to make it related to something they’ve learned about in class, or you can let them make their own Spanish trivia games, or let their imaginations go!

Depending on the technology skill level with your group, you may want to casually mention to students that they can move the text boxes with the answers around on the screen. This way you won’t have several review games with the correct/incorrect answers in the exact same spots! Some groups of students won’t even realize this, but some will. You know your students best!

As students finish their games, they can trade and play with each other’s slides to see if they can win the games they’ve made.

You can also use these printable board game templates if you’d like to offer a non-tech option!

This set of blank game boards is a download in the freebie library!

Spanish Club Activities that Build Community

Some of the best Spanish club activities are the ones that bring people together. Think beyond the classroom. Host a pen pal exchange with another Spanish class in your district or connect with a school in a different country. Or, organize a community service day where students volunteer locally and reflect on global citizenship.

You do not have to reinvent the wheel every month. Keep using what works, rotate in fresh ideas, and invite your students to help plan. Giving them ownership over club events is a game changer. You’ll build leaders and boost engagement without carrying all the weight yourself.

With a little planning and a lot of heart, Spanish club activities can become the highlight of your students’ high school experience.

Spanish Club Fundraising Ideas

While many of the Spanish club activities listed are free or low-cost, some of them require some funds! If your club is running low on cash, check out these ideas for fundraisers you can do with your students!