Thursday Theme Ideas and Hashtags
Designating a daily theme is a great way to add a little fun to your regular school day. These Thursday theme ideas or Thursday hashtags can be the focus of an entire day or a way to label a brief segment of the day. Whether you’re in a classroom setting or homeschooling your own kids, themes or hashtags use catchy alliteration or rhyming to amp up the fun factor.
Thursday is probably the toughest day to come up with alliterative themes for, but I’ve come up with a list of fun themes for Thursdays, along with a few suggestions of ways you can use them to increase engagement and learning opportunities for your students.
General Ways to Use Theme Days
Weekly Activities
Some of the daily themes listed below work well with weekly use. These can provide opportunity for regular practice or short activities. Examples of Thursday theme ideas that could be used every week:
Thankful Thursday: have students share something they’re thankful for, or add to a thankful list each Thursday
This or That Thursday: use this as a catchall label for agenda items, or as a fun polling activity for students to vote between two items
You get the idea here. These themes don’t take up a significant amount of time and can be added into your schedule to share tidbits of information in a fun way.
Monthly Activities
Many of the themes listed might not be practical for weekly usage. Depending on your schedule and students’ interest, you may not want to have a Thinker Thursday or Theater Thursday theme every week, but a monthly activity around this theme could be added to your schedule.
Occasional Activities
Some of the themes work very well to use more occasionally. This could be a quarterly or sporadic use of Thursday Theory as a science activity, or a collection of themed days to create a week of unique learning outside the regular curriculum.
Newsletter Headings
If you have a student interested in creating a family or class newsletter, these themes could be great column headings for a newsletter project.
Read How to Plan a Homeschool Day with Fun Theme Ideas for a full week of themed learning activities
Thursday Theme Ideas and Hashtags
Here’s the list of hashtags and alliterative themes for Thursday, listed in alphabetical order.
Thankful Thursday
A well-known hashtag for good reason, Thankful Thursday is a great way to encourage kids to keep a gratitude journal or just take a moment to focus on being grateful. The research is clear that intentional gratitude has enormous benefits to overall mental health.
#ThankfulThursday
Theater Thursday
Use this theme day occasionally to study or watch a theater production, or as part of a group of theme days for a week of fun learning experiences.
#TheaterThursday
Theology Thursday
This theme could be a weekly or occasional study of deep theological questions, or an overview of influential philosophers and theologians.
#TheologyThursday
Then and Now Thursday
Compare something from a historical time period to the way things are today with this theme. You could keep it lighthearted with comparisons of what people did for fun, look at pictures of a city’s downtown over a period of time, or talk about the pressing issues of the day from a specific decade in time compared to current events.
#ThenAndNowThursday
There Their They’re Thursday
Use this theme to label a segment for grammar studies.
#ThereTheirThey’reThursday
Things and Stuff Thursday
This theme could be used to study the things people use in their everyday lives. You could explore objects from our modern society, take a trip around the world with this theme, or move through history with this same focus on the things people valued.
#ThingsandStuffThursday
Think About It Thursday
Pose a thought-provoking question or offer an inspiring quote with this theme. You could also use this theme to cite statistics related to youth that your students would find interesting.
#ThinkAboutItThursday
Read: Monthly Motivation for Kids
Think It Through Thursday
This theme could be used to present a multi-step problem or brainteaser. You could also use it similarly to Think About It Thursday to ask tough questions.
#ThinkItThroughThursday
Thinker Thursday
Study philosophy with a monthly Thinker Thursday.
#ThinkerThursday
Third Place Thursday
This theme could be a fun way to study people, places, companies, or anything else that doesn’t have household name fame. Think “third largest sportswear company,” “third biggest building in the world,” or “third highest selling board game of all time.” You could use this as a quick piece of trivia, or dig a deeper and learn a little about the person or item in the number three spot.
#ThirdPlaceThursday
This or That Thursday
Ask this or that questions as a fun community builder. You could also have students track the questions throughout the year by making a chart or graph and report on which questions had the most or least consensus.
#ThisOrThatThursday
Thoughtful Thursday
This theme is a great way to encourage students to think about ways to be kind. Have them write an encouraging note to someone in their life, or brainstorm ways they could do something thoughtful for others. Get them involved in thoughtful actions like making cards for hospitalized kids or eating lunch with someone who generally eats alone.
#ThoughtfulThursday
Three Things Thursday
Use this theme to explore things that come in threes. Trios about in movies and books: Harry, Ron, and Hermione immediately come to mind. You could explore 3D, primary colors, electrons, protons, and neutrons. There are plenty of word groups: of the people, by the people, for the people. This could be a fun, random Thursday theme that allows for interesting trivia and discussions.
#ThreeThingsThursday
Thrifty Thursday
This well-known hashtag could be put this use in the classroom as a way to teach solid principles about saving, comparison shopping, recycling, growing vegetables, and so much more.
#ThriftyThursday
Thrilling Thursday
Use this theme to study famous adventurers and explorers.
#ThrillingThursday
Thumbs Up Thursday
Ask students to give respond with the best thing that happened this week. You could also use this as a polling question similar to This or That or Would You Rather themes.
#ThumbsUpThursday
Thursday Themes
Use Thursday Themes as a segment to discuss overarching themes in a book your students are reading. You could also ask them to dissect the themes in a favorite movie. Common themes include good vs. evil, overcoming obstacles, friendship, redemption, coming of age.
#ThursdayThemes
Thursday Theory
Ideal to add a fun element to a science or math class, present a famous theory using this theme day.
#ThursdayTheory
Thursday Threads
This could be a theme related to the arts (e.g. fashion, sewing, embroidery, etc.). It would take a little more thought, but it could also be used as a theme to discuss connecting ideas between books or topics.
#ThursdayThreads
Thursday Three
A catch-all theme that can be used to list Top Threes in a variety of categories. Ideas: three women who sailed around the world, three sports you’ve never heard of, three amazing rock formations. You can’t possibly run out of ideas with this theme.
#ThursdayThree
Tiny Things Thursday
Use this theme to study tiny things. This could be physically small objects like paper clips or computer chips, or things invisible to the naked eye like viruses or atoms.
#TinyThingsThursday
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Thursday Themes Add Fun
Use a theme of the day to add a bit of fun to the school day. Whether it’s a weekly trivia tidbit or a monthly mini-unit study, your students will look forward to your Thursday themes.
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