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Language & Literacy
Books
Owen's Marshmallow Chick (Owen)
Spot's First Easter (color)
The Golden Egg (Templar)
Ten Little Eggs
Hurry! Hurry!
Songs, Poems, &
Fingerplays
God Loves You
God loves you ,God loves me.
God Loves everyone you see
So stand up turn around give a
big shout!
That's what God is all about.
Five Little Bunnies
One little bunny was feeling
blue,
So he went to a friend’s
house and then there were two.
Two little bunnies hopped
to a tree,
A bunny lived there and
then there were three.
Three little bunnies jumped
out the door,
They meet another and then
there were four.
Four little bunnies were
soon to arrive,
At another friends house
and that makes five!
Five little bunnies are
going to have some lunch.
So they ate a bunch of carrots:
nibble, nibble, crunch!
Little Bunny
Little Bunny with ears so long,
In the garden hopping
along.
With your sharp keen little
eye,
A great big carrot you might
spy.
Hop on over and check it
out,
Nibble on a little green
sprout.
But keep an eye on the garden gate,
If the farmer comes your
lunch must wait!
Activities
Five Little Bunnies poem
& flannel board story: Cut five bunnies from flannel to use
on the flannel board when doing this poem.
The Parable of the Lily &
Hand Easter Lilies: After reading the story discuss how we can
forgive people. Then have the children make Easter lilies from construction
paper. Trace their hand, cut it out, roll in together and tape the
edges together, roll the fingers back with a pencil to give them a petal
look, insert a green chenille stem (pipe cleaner) through the bottom.
Discuss how sometimes flowers are given as a way to tell someone you are
sorry, and discuss how nice it feels to hear someone say "I forgive you."
Discuss how Jesus went to heaven so that we could go to heaven too, and how we
are forgiven by God if we do do something that is not okay.
Math & Number Concepts
Egg Number Match: Label
an empty egg carton with the numbers one through twelve. Fill a basket
with fuzzy chicks and have the children fill the eggs with chicks and place
them in the correct space in the carton.
Egg Hunt: Hide plastic eggs all around the room, have the
children collect them in Easter baskets. Then ask each child to count how
many eggs they found. Challenge them to tell you how many of each color
they found too.
Literacy  :
Have the children help make a group/class graph depicting how many of each
color egg was found.
Art
Stained Glass Windows:
You can do this activity with any shape, and egg or cross, or whatever
you wish. You need construction paper, clear contact paper, and colored
tissue paper.
1. Cut a shape from the
center of a piece of construction paper,
2. Cover one side with clear
construction paper
3. Place paper back over
the opening in the construction paper until you are ready to use it
4. Cut another piece of
clear contact paper the size of the construction paper to place over the
whole picture when you are through.
5. Give each child one of
the precut shapes, peal the paper backing off the contact paper, provide
the children with scraps of colored tissue paper that they use to fill
in the clear contact paper.
6. When the entire shape
is filled with colored tissue paper, place the extra piece of contact paper
over the tissue paper side to secure it. Flip it over and you should
see a beautiful stained glass picture.
Marble Painted Eggs:
Tape a construction paper egg shape to the bottom of a shallow box, drop
blobs of different colored paint in the box, place a few marbles in the
paint, let the children tip the box back and forth to make a colorful egg
decoration.
Sponge Paint: Provide
the children with a variety of Easter sponges and let them paint an Easter
scene, basket, or some other Easter shape.
Egg Coloring: Dye
some Easter Eggs!
Easter Baskets:
Create cute Easter Baskets with strawberry baskets. Tuck tissue paper
in between the sides of the basket; add a chenille stem handle, and maybe
a couple candies inside!
Dramatic Play
Turn your Housekeeping Center
into a Candy Store! Provide children with empty candy boxes, shopping
bags, cash register, etc.
Music & Movement
The Bunny Hop - remember
this oldie but goodie?
Colored Egg Hop - Cut
large egg shapes from red, yellow, colored construction paper (cut a couple
of each color for large groups), spread them out on the floor, them recite
the following rhyme and have the children hop like bunnies to the appropriate
egg. At times leave off before the color word and see if they can
figure it out on their own.
Bunny, Bunny get out of bed,
and hop to the egg that’s “red.”
Now you little wiggly fellow,
go find the egg that’s “yellow”.
I spy pretty ink; can you
find the egg that’s “pink”?
Oh I wonder who, can find
the egg the color “blue”.
Hey that’s not a jellybean, it just and egg the color “green”!
Hoop Hop: Set out some hula-hoops and then tell the children they will be hopping
rabbits! Give them instructions to hop:
i.e. around the hoops, next
to the hoops, over the hoops, through the hoops, hop on one foot in the
hoops, etc.
Nino 4-Piece Egg Shaker Assortment
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town
Science &
Discovery
Growing Grass Activity- Grow
some "Easter Grass" this is a great science observation activity.
Children can record their observation in their very own science
journals. Print the journal and our activity
guide, activity
cards, and vocabulary
cards page 1 & page
2 found @ The
Teacher's Desk.
What’s in the Egg?
Do a unit study on eggs. Study what animals lay eggs. Talk
about the parts of an egg. Learn why animals lay eggs.
Hide the Easter Eggs: Fill your discovery table
with Easter Grass and Plastic Eggs. Have a couple egg cartons for the kids
to place the eggs in when they find then. You could also program the eggs
and the cartons with numbers for a matching game.
Play Dough Eggs:
Provide children with play dough and plastic hinge Easter eggs. Let
the children fill the eggs and squeeze them together to make play dough
Easter eggs. *Easter cookie cutters would be fun too.
Touch Match Eggs:
Make a set of these feely eggs for a fun tactile experience. Cut
egg shapes from heavy weight construction paper, on each egg attach different
textures like sand glued on one, fabric on one, puffy paint, etc.
Then cut each egg through the middle making a jagged line too resemble
a cracked egg. Then mix up the pieces and let the kids try to match
the egg halves up by texture.
Blocks & Building
Add a bunch of stuffed bunnies to the block & building
area.
Puzzles, Games &
Manipulatives
Mr. Potato Head Spring Easter Bunny Set
International Playthings Hide'N Squeak Eggs
Egg & Spoon Race Game
Easter Jigsaw Puzzle
3 Chicks Puzzle --ImagiPlay 3D EcoSafe
Computers
Online Easter Egg Hunt
http://wilstar.com/holidays/egghunt.htm
Cooking
Hard Boiled Eggs!
Egg Salad Sandwich!
Bunny Sandwiches:
Spread Cream Cheese, grated carrots, and a piece of lettuce between two
pieces of bread and cut with a bunny shaped cookie cutter!
Bunny Faces- Cream Cheese on a bagel,
with candies for eyes, baby carrots for ears, liquorish whiskers...
Rabbit Munch: Mix
chow mien noodles, raisins, dry cereal, and peanuts together for a yummy
snack.
Bulletin Boards
Create a giant Easter display- Cut out a large basket shape from brown
construction paper, fill it with egg shapes that the children have decorated or
painted.
Other Resources
First Easter Rabbit
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