When it comes to holidays in kindergarten, I always like to make it fun while still working on our standards. Even for Easter! There are so many fun ways you can celebrate Easter while still keeping your students learning!
Egg Hunt Activities
What better way to celebrate Easter than with an egg hunt? Egg hunts are awesome because plastic eggs are cheap and there are so many skills you can practice with them. I like to review sight words by placing a word inside the egg and hiding the eggs around the classroom. When students find an egg, they open it up, read the word, and write it on a recording sheet. They either put the egg back or you can let them re-hide it. This activity also works for letter sounds, math facts, etc. You can check out my egg hunt resource to get the recording sheets.
Math Activities
Easter always happens to fall around the time that we are finishing learning about addition. So this activity makes the perfect hands on math center! Students grab a jelly bean and solve the addition problem, then have to put it in the correct jar. This is always one of their favorite math centers of the year!
Math the Room is also a favorite math center where students go around the room, find the pictures, and record their answer. It is great for practicing counting, adding, and subtracting. So of course, we have an Easter version!
Jelly Bean STEM Challenge
STEM activities are always a huge hit! I love seeing how creative students are and seeing some of them really think outside of the box. For this activity, I give my students a marshmallow peep and they have to build a house to protect it. The only materials they can use are toothpicks and jelly beans (the big ones work better). This activity is also great for fine motor development because it can be kind of tricky to push the toothpicks into the jelly beans. And of course students love that they can eat this when they are done!
Chick Directed Drawing
Each month, I love to do a directed drawing with my students. We learn to draw the picture together as a whole group, then students get to color their drawing. Afterwards, we hang them up on our student work display board.
In April, we draw these cute little hatching chicks.
BINGO
BINGO always makes the perfect, fun holiday activity! It’s easy and engaging and you can even give away prizes, which students love.
Color By Code Activities
Color By Code activities are always a huge hit with my students. They are great for reviewing skills we have worked on, such as letters and numbers. I use them all the time as early finisher activities, morning work, and even in my writing center that students can visit during free play time.
Hopefully this gave you some ideas for some fun and engaging activities to do for Easter with your students.
