After-School Program Plan Template
An after-school program is a schedule with staff attached, and the plan should look like one: arrival and snack, homework help, an enrichment or club block, physical activity, a second choice block and cleanup and pick-up, each with the time, the materials and the staff member and room. Behavior and safety notes, supplies to prep and family messages at the foot. The mixed-age daycare plan is here for programs that also run before school or in summer.
2 after-school templates
Specifications: US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches. Word files are editable .docx that open in Word 2007 through Microsoft 365, including Word for Mac; the Google Docs link makes a copy in your own Drive; the PDF has real form fields and prints as plain hairline boxes when blank. Free to use in as many classes as you like, no account, no watermark.
About the after school templates
After-school and out-of-school-time programs are staffed by part-time adults who change often, run in borrowed rooms and serve a wide age range, and the plan has to be readable by someone who started Monday. So the sheet is a timed schedule rather than a lesson plan: what happens, when, with what, and who is responsible — the staff and room column is the one a program director reads first. Homework help gets its own row because it is the reason many families enroll and the block most often improvised.
The physical-activity row says outside if possible because afterschool quality standards in most states require daily physical activity and many programs lose it to the gym schedule; writing it in is how it survives. Supplies to prep is a box rather than a line because enrichment blocks fail on missing materials more than on missing ideas, and the family-notes box is for the pick-up changes that arrive by text at three o'clock.
After School lesson plans, answered
How is this different from a daycare plan?
Can I use it for summer camp or summer school?
Where do learning objectives go?
Drawn and measured in November 2026.