Easter

Easter

Learning Activities

Easter Bunny Name Writing

Skills:  Name writing, letter recognition

I traced and cut out Easter Bunny Heads from pink and yellow construction paper.

I drew on the facial features

Joey and Tana glued the cut-outs to a strip of construction paper.

Tana wrote her own name and Joey spelled his name while I wrote it!

Do The Bunny Hop

A CVC Word Game

Skills:  reading, cvc words

Here is the link for Do the Bunny Hop!

Easter Egg Number Match

Skills:  number recognition, counting, number order

We did this activity last year too!  This year Tana joined in on the activity.  We have been working on number recognition 1-5 with her.  I had Addie match up the rest of the numbers 6-12.

Directions:

I labeled the top half of each egg with a number (1-12) and the bottom half with dots (1-12)

A Match

More matching

Then they put the completed eggs in number order 1-12

Projects

 Easter Bunny Countdown Chain

Addie wanted to make a countdown to Easter.  We decided on doing a paper chain countdown.  There are 18 more days until Easter so we needed 18 strips of paper.

Directions:  Cut out 1 inch strips of white paper

Make the strips into loops and staple them to make a countdown chain.

On the top loop, glue on ears and draw a bunny face!

Easter Chick Stamping with Wine Corks

Press a wine cork into yellow paint.

Press the paint covered cork onto white paper

Use a toothpick to draw on the wings/feathers

When dry, draw on the feet, beak and eyes!

Keely using the cork to stamp out her Easter Chicks!

Easter Egg Bunnies!

I saw this cute project in Parents Magazine.  Here is the link for this cute Easter Bunny project.

The Front of the Bunnies!

The Backsides!

Fingerprint Sheep

Cut out a head and feet from black construction paper.  

Tie a bow from ribbon

Directions:  Glue the head and feet to a 5x7 piece of construction paper.

Dip your pointer finger into white paint and press your painted finger all around the sheep's head.  Glue on googly eyes and the bow.

Hand print Carrots

Cut an orange triangle from construction paper.

Cut squares of orange tissue paper

Paint both hands green and press hands onto green paper, making three hand prints.

Directions:  Glue orange tissue squares onto the triangle.

Cut around the hand prints and glue the hand prints to make the stem for the carrot.

Footprint Bunnies

Trace both feet onto colored construction paper.

Cut out the footprints and glue them onto construction paper.  Overlap the heels.

Glue on googly eyes, button nose and chenille stem whiskers.  

Footprint Carrot and Bunny

Paint 1 foot orange and the other foot pink or blue or whatever color!

Press both feet onto white paper - make sure the orange foot is placed toes up.

When dry add the details

Fingerprint Bunnies

Cut a circle from white paper

Tie a bow with yarn or ribbon

Directions:  Glue the circle onto construction paper.

Glue on googly eyes, a button nose and the ribbon.

Cover a fingertip with white paint and press it onto the paper to make two bunny ears.

Draw on whiskers and a mouth

Easter Learning Unit - Week 2

Easter Learning Unit - Week 2

 

Learning Activities

 

Easter Countdown

Counting, number recognition

Addie was driving me crazy asking me multiple times a day how many more days until Easter.  I decided to make a Easter Countdown for her.  I traced bunnies on pieces of construction paper.  Next, I counted how many days there was until Easter and wrote them on the bunnies - ending with 1.  Next, I traced more bunnies onto white card stock and cut them out.  Addie and I decorated each bunny.  She glues a bunny on the chart each day.  She then tells me how many days are left!  It has been great for learning her teen numbers!!

Counting and Number Egg Match
Number recognition, counting,

I wrote the number 1-12 on plastic Easter eggs.  I drew dots from 1-12 of the bottom halves of the plastic Easter eggs.  I made sure the two halves colors didn't match.  I spread the halves on the floor and Addie matched the number with the corresponding dots!

Addie counting the dots and matching the egg!

 

Upper and Lowercase Broken Easter Egg Match

Letter recognition, writing upper and lowercase letters

I cut 26 Easter eggs out of construction paper.  I "broke" the eggs in half by cutting each one with a  jagged line.  Addie wrote the letters A-Z in uppercase letters on the top half of the eggs and again in lowercase letters on the bottom half of the eggs.  Next, I mixed the letter A-O up and placed the letter eggs on the table.  Addie found the letter pairs and "fixed" the broken eggs by gluing each pair back together in ABC order.  She finished A-O in one sitting.  She will do P-Z tomorrow!

 

                                 Gluing a pair together             Tracking the egg order by saying her ABC's

Gluing another egg pair together

 

Easter Egg Scissors Practice

Cutting with scissors

I drew a large Easter egg onto white paper.  I drew a jagged line in the middle.  Addie cut the egg out first and then "broke" the egg by cutting on the jagged line.

Easter Crafts

Paper Cup Easter Chicks

Glue googly eyes onto a yellow, paper cup

Cut a beak from orange craft foam and glue it onto the cup

Glue white or yellow feathers onto the back, inside of the cup

Cut orange pipe cleaners into 1 1/2 inch to 2 inch pieces.  You will need 4 pipe cleaner pieces for each chick.  Twist one piece around another pipe cleaner and bend and shape to make each foot.  Glue into place on the bottom of the cup

 

Paper Plate Chick

 

Glue googly eyes onto a yellow paper plate.

Cut an orange triangle out of construction paper for the beak. 

Glue feathers to the back sides of the plate.

Cut 2 legs from orange construction paper and fold the legs accordion style.

Cut feet from orange construction paper and glue to the bottom of the legs.

Glue the legs to back bottom of the plate 

 

Easter Bunny Windsock

Cut a sheet of white card stock in half. ( I used standard letter paper size)

Cut 2 ears from white paper

Cut the inside of the ears from pink paper and glue to the white ears.

Cut chenille stems into 4" pieces - you will need 4 pieces.

Cut pink strips of paper - or use pink streamers

Before stapling or taping the cylinder together, glue the ears and streamers to the backside of the white paper. 

 Roll white card stock into a cylinder and staple or tape together.

Glue pink button on for the nose.

Glue on the chenille stems for the whiskers. 

Draw eyes and mouth.

Glue pink pom pom on the backside for the tail. 

Attach ribbon or string for hanging.

 

Handprint Easter Chick

 

 Paint child's hand yellow and press onto white paper.

When dry, draw eyes, beak and feet.