Spring is in the air, and with it comes the excitement of Easter! There's no shortage of engaging games and Easter activities for kids to enjoy at this special time of year. From egg hunts to bunny crafts, Easter-themed games, and creative art projects, there are countless ways to bring the joy of the season into the classroom while incorporating valuable learning experiences with Easter ideas. Let's take a look at some fun Easter activities that you can do in your kindergarten or first grade classroom.
30 Awesome Easter Activities For Kids
1. Plastic Easter Egg Hunt
One thing you'll definitely want to do is have a classroom or grade level Easter egg hunt. How can you make this activity fun and educational? Instead of putting candy in the eggs, add sight words to each egg. When the hunt is completed, have students open their eggs and read the words to a friend.
2. Easter Basket Craft
Give your students a simple Easter basket pattern to trace and cut out. Kids can use markers to color paper eggs to add to their Easter baskets. It's a great way for kids to practice fine motor skills like cutting and gluing.
3. Easter Egg Coloring
Young kids love coloring hard-boiled eggs with food coloring but how can you convince your principal that it's educational? Have your students bring in 6 hard boiled eggs. Let them try coloring the real eggs the traditional dip and dye method with food colors or natural dyes.
Next, give each student a tray of watercolor paints and a black permanent marker. Let your students draw designs on their eggs with the marker. Then have students paint them with the watercolors. When then are finished, use this as an opportunity to practice opinion writing. Have your student write their opinion of what they liked best – dipping or painting! Even older kids will enjoy this activity!
4. Digital Easter Math Games
Have students practice counting coins with a digital Boom Cards game. In this game, kids count the coins to see what they can buy in the Easter store! Your students will be having so much fun with Boom Cards they won't even realize they are learning.
5. Bunny and Chick Crafts
Spring is here and all the baby animals are being born, including baby chicks and bunnies! Have your students read and learn about these animals and then write their opinion of their favorite animal. Finish by making either a child or Easter bunny craft.
6. Easter Sensory Bin
Fill a sensory bin with Easter grass, plastic eggs, small toys, and other Easter-themed items for sensory play and discovery. Add sight words and spelling words to your plastic Easter eggs for students to find in the sensory bin. Then give them a simple worksheet to write their words.
7. Easter Egg Contraction Game
Add some fun Easter themed games to your word work center. Students will like this contraction matching game where they match the two pieces of an Easter egg to make a contraction.
8. Easter Themed Write The Room
Hide Easter eggs with pictures like a bunny, carrots, basket and more around your room. Have students search for the eggs and write the words they find in this fun write the room activity. The perfect time to use this activity is during your literacy station time. And the best part is you will have time to work in small groups while your students are learning at stations!
9. Easter Scavenger Hunt
Organize a scavenger hunt around the school with clues leading to hidden Easter-themed items. Little kids love scavenger hunts and will have lots of fun with this activity.
10. Easter Writing
Read the book How To Catch The Easter Bunny and then have the students design traps for the bunny. When they are finished practice procedural writing with how to catch the Easter Bunny and make a cute bunny craft. This is a fun Easter activity that kindergarten and first grade students will love.
11. Easter Bingo
Every student loves playing bingo! Create some simple Easter themed bingo cards for a fun game to play when you have a few extra minutes.
12. Adopt A Peep
Adopt A Peep is one of the best Easter activities you will do! Have a basket of plastic eggs with marshmallow peeps inside delivered to your classroom from the Easter Bunny. Students can each choose an egg and then open it to discover their own little peep. Have your students give their peep a name, birth certificate and a baby book. Students can make peep nests and take care of their little peep for a few days. It's a great way to teach students about responsibility while having some fun.
13. Easter Egg Relay Race
Divide kids into teams and have them race while carrying plastic Easter eggs on spoons.
14. Digital Easter Phonics Games
Students can practice digraphs with this fun Chick and Bunny themed Boom Cards game. In this game kids will listen to the word and choose the digraph they hear in each word.
15. Easter Egg Tower Building
Challenge kids to build the tallest tower using plastic Easter eggs.
16. Easter Bunny's Assistant
Read the picture book The Easter Bunny's Assistant by Jan Thomas. then have your students complete an application to be the Easter Bunny's Assistant. Set up different stations around your classroom to have kids try out different jobs in Bunnyville, They can become an Easter basket maker, candy tester, a Bunnyville gardener, offical egg hunter and more! Head over here to see how we did this lesson in our classroom. This is a great activity to do just before you leave for your Easter holiday break.
17. Easter Egg Toss
Pair kids up and have them toss plastic Easter eggs to each other, increasing the distance each round.
18. Easter Syllables
Have students count the syllables in words and add them to different Easter baskets like in this fun syllables game. It's the perfect way to add some Easter fun to your word work station.
19. Jelly Bean Writing
Give each student a little cup of jelly beans and let them taste them. Then have them write which flavor was their favorite. It's a fun way to practice jellybean opinion writing!
20. Easter Egg Relay
Divide kids into teams and have them pass plastic Easter eggs down a line using only their spoons.
21. Jelly Bean Sorting
Have students sort and graph jelly beans. This is one tasty math lesson they won't want to miss!
22. Scrambled Egg Sight Words
Write your sight words on colorful paper and then cut the letters apart. Put each scrambled up word in a plastic Easter egg. Have students try to unscramble the word and write them on this worksheet.
23. Peter Rabbit Activities
A great book to read aloud around Easter is Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. You can use this book to have students learn all about rabbits, compare & contrast book characters, retell the sequence of events, graph the vegetables in Mr. MacGregors garden and more! Click here to see more.
24. Easter Egg Science Experiment
Conduct simple science experiments with uncooked and hard boiled eggs. Have students make predictions if they think the eggs will sink or float.
25. Easter Egg Art
Provide paints and brushes for kids to decorate large paper eggs. These Easter egg crafts would be great to decorate your hallway in the spring!
26. Hot Cross Buns
Teach your students the song Hot Cross Buns and the hand movements that goes with the song.
27. Easter Measurement
Give students different pictures of Easter themed items and have them measure using jelly beans.
28. Easter Egg Dying
Have your students bring in some hard boiled eggs and let them dye the eggs using the traditional dip and dye with food coloring. When they are finished, have students practice procedural writing by writing the steps for how to dye eggs. Finish with a cute egg craft. If you don't want the mess of dye cups, a great option is to use watercolor paints to paint the eggs.
29. Easter Math
Have students compare numbers using greater, less than and equal to with this fun task card activity.
30. Easter Addition
Grab a plastic carrot container from your local Dollar Store. Add two dice and some mini erasers. Have students shake the dice and spill them, then add together. Students can use the mini erasers to help them solve the addition problems in this cute carrot shake game.
31. Easter Candy Sorting
Give students a little cup of Easter candy. You can use things like jelly beans, chocolate eggs, marshmallow peeps and more. Let each child sort and taste their candy. Then they can write which was their favorite.
32. Chick Tac Toe
Grab some of these bunny and chick Tic Tac Toe games from the Dollar Tree. Add sight words or math facts for a fun little game that you can add to your math and literacy centers.
I hope you enjoyed this fun list of Easter activities. Big kids and little kids alike will enjoy these awesome crafts, writing ideas and fun Easter games! Be sure to add some of these ideas to your lesson plans before you head to spring break.
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