Do you celebrate Easter in your preschool classroom or homeschool? Keep reading for the most “speggtacular “Easter Fun preschool activities around!
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PRESCHOOL EASTER ACTIVITIES
Easter is a time for new beginnings that is synonymous with spring, and it’s the perfect theme to teach (whether you’re homeschooling or teaching in a preschool or kindergarten classroom).
Easter Fun will help your little ones have a “hopping” good time when learning about and participating in activities about Easter! They will love hunting for Easter eggs and counting (and eating) jellybeans…they might even turn into the Easter bunny! This theme leads to interactive play and STEM exploration. So let’s get ready to celebrate Easter!
Keep reading for 10+ of the best Easter activities for your preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students. These ideas include literacy, math, and hands on activities. Grab your printables for math & literacy here. Oh, and there’s a freebie, too!
If you want a copy of my yearly themes (including an editable version where you can type in your own themes), check out this freebie. (*Please note: You will need to download this file to your computer and then open it with Adobe in order to add your own themes. You cannot add your themes from your web browser.)
PRESCHOOL EASTER ACTIVITIES: LITERACY
Before you get started with your Easter theme, make sure you have your books all ready to go! For this unit, we’re going to use our Easter book list, which has over 15 books for you to choose from! This list includes LOTS of books about different characters celebrating Easter. Make sure to request these from your local library (or order them from Amazon) a few weeks before you start your theme.
Phonological awareness skills are the key building block to reading success, which is why they should be practiced a little bit every day. In order to keep things fresh & engaging, I like to use phonological awareness games that go along with my current theme. Click here to check out these Easter phonological awareness games that will help your little ones become strong readers in less than 10 minutes a day (and with zero supplies!)
You’re definitely going to want to start your Easter theme with these vocabulary cards! Do your littles know what Peeps are? Have they ever seen a tulip? These cards are the perfect way to introduce your little ones to the 15 Easter related words they’ll be learning about over the course of this theme. You can use these vocabulary cards in your writing center or in a Write the Room activity where they will choose a vocabulary card, say the word, and match it to the picture on the activity page. Then they write the word on the line.
“Color the Room” is a variation of “Write the Room,” where you hide the vocabulary word cards around the room for your little one to find and have them match the picture on the card to the picture on the activity page. They can choose to color the matching picture or simply circle it. This is a great variation for little ones who aren’t ready to write the words on their own yet.
This is a fun and interactive activity that can be used in different ways to practice vowel sounds. Little ones will say the name of the picture on the eggs, tell you what the vowel sound is, find the basket that spells that sound, and place it in the correct basket. For more advanced little ones, they can attempt to spell each picture word by sounding out the beginning, middle, and ending letter sounds of these CVC words.
Listening for two words that make up a compound word is a great way to practice phonological awareness. This activity can be used in two ways. Little ones can choose a large picture card and place it on the mat. After saying the name of the picture, they will try to find the two picture cards that make up the compound word. Alternatively, you can place the small picture cards in a sensory bin and have your little ones try to figure out which two go together to from a compound word. Then they will find the picture that describes that word and place it on the mat.
This activity can be used in various ways to practice letter recognition and more. Little ones can choose a letter card, find that letter on the mat and cover it with a jellybean (or small manipulative). They can also cut out the letter cards, put the letter cards in alphabetical order, or combine letters to make CVC words! Or have them look for objects around the room, decide what letter the object’s name starts with, and place the object below that letter card. The more they practice with letters, the more proficient they will become!
For this activity, little ones will be playing a timed game. Place one letter tile in each plastic Easter egg and place the eggs in a basket. Little ones will have 60 seconds (or however long you choose) to pick an egg, hop across the room, take the letter out of the egg, and match it to the letter card. Then, they will run back and get another egg and repeat the process until their time runs out. Now. it’s your turn. Who is the faster Easter Bunny?!
These FREE letter cards can be used for all sorts of activities, and they’re especially fun to put in a sensory bin of black beans (“soil”) to then feed to the bunny! Here’s the link to my blog post where you can read all about this game and download this freebie!
PRESCHOOL EASTER ACTIVITIES: MATH
For this activity, little ones will choose a card, trace the number word and number, count out that many jellybeans, and place them on the jellybean bag. Depending on their level, they can put the number cards in numerical order or use them to create addition and/or subtraction problems to solve.
Counting the butterflies on the bunny cards will indicate which square your little ones will place the bunny card. There’s a mat with number words as well as a mat with just numbers to place the bunny cards. As they get more proficient, you could time them to see how fast they can match the cards to their number on the mat. They can also count out jellybeans that correspond to each number!
This activity has little ones learning about different shapes. First, they will try to identify the shape on the card. Some they will know easily, but they might need help with other less common ones. Then, they will form 2D shapes using play dough ropes. Can they put the shape names in alphabetical order?
Subitizing is the ability to look at objects and recognize how many there are without counting each one individually. Here’s a link to a review video about subitizing from our favorite YouTuber, Jack Hartmann! After practicing, these cards can be used to play the card game “War.” Little ones will each put a card down and whoever has the higher number takes the cards. Whoever has the most cards at the end of the game wins! These cards can also be used to play Memory or Go Fish.
PRESCHOOL EASTER ACTIVITIES: STEM ACTIVITIES
This is a great activity to encourage your little ones to be scientists. Using glass or clear plastic jars, partially fill them different liquids such as water, vinegar, soda, or orange juice. Then little ones will place peeps or jellybeans in each jar for a time period of their choosing. Can they hypothesize what will happen in the jars? Have them observe the results and decide if their hypothesis was correct. Talk about why some liquids dissolved the candy better than others.
EASTER PRESCHOOL & PRE-K FUN
I hope these ideas helped you fill-in your Easter lesson plans for your preschool classroom or homeschool! All of the printables for this unit can be found in my Easter Fun Activity Pack.
What types of Easter preschool activities do you plan for your little one? Do you have any fun activities that would be great to add to this list? Comment below or find me on Instagram [@littleslovelearningblog] and let me know!
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Happy Learning!
