Spring has sprung and Easter is on its way! Which means it is the time of year when you get an opportunity to explore all things Easter in your classroom.
Whether you are looking for enough Easter theme activities to take you through the month or just a new one to add to your favorites, we have you covered with our Easter Activities for Preschoolers Bundle. Now, let’s get hopping and see what this includes!
Easter Centers Preschool
Centers are one of the best ways to engage preschoolers in hands on learning. Moreover, centers provide students time to explore as independent learners. Learning centers are also a great starting point for any unit because they can easily be designed to match any theme.
Since centers are all about exploring, we refer to our preschool centers as Exploration Stations. All of our Exploration Stations are thoughtuflly designed with the young learner in in mind. Come with us as we share with you the 9 different centers that we created especially for introducing your students to Easter!
As you explore these stations you will notice that each center allows students to engage with a different skill, such as coloring, sorting, building, or writing. In addition, you will see how each of these centers is connected to an element of Easter. After you explore these centers keep reading to learn more about you can incorporate these into your classroom.
Easter Themed Preschool Centers
- Explore Exploration Station: During this first exploration station, students explore Easter through reading. After they read the pages they demonstrate their understanding by matching cards to photographs that reflect events in the text.
- Color Exploration Station: At station two, students get to color pictures. While this can be done freely, there is also a color code provided to support them in choosing colors.
- Match Exploration Station: During the matching stations, young learners get to practice their matching skills by matching parts of a bunny.
- Make Exploration Station: Your students will love using play dough at station four where they get to make symbols of Easter!
- Build Exploration Station: In addition to making symbols with play dough, students also get to build Easter shapes. Easter candy like jelly beans or marshmallows are used to build their shapes, all connected with toothpicks.
- Find Exploration Station: At station number 6, students get to dig their hands into a sensory bin to find an assortment of Easter items. It’s kind of like a mini Easter egg hunt!
- Sort Exploration Station: The sorting station engages students in thinking about which item goes where, as they sort the items to the correct mat.
- Write/Draw Exploration Station: Station 8 offers kids a choice to either draw or write about Easter. This is a great way to support different levels of learning and different learning styles.
- Experiment Exploration Station: STEM is not just for older kids, preschoolers can also engage in STEM lessons. Therefore, we included a STEM focused activity as one of the stations. At this station, students will experiment with what happens when you put a jelly bean in water. Then they will write about what they learn.
How to Use Preschool Centers
If you are new to using centers or stations in your classroom there are different ways to incorporate them. This includes everything from where the stations are located in your classroom to how and when students visit them.
All station activities can be located in one area or they can be distributed to a few different locations in the classroom. Students can visit all of the Exploration Stations in one day as a focused learning activity, or you can have them visit one to two stations a day throughout the week. In addition, you can choose how many students visit one station at a time.
There is not one right way to include these stations in your classroom. The most important thing is to establish a clear routine and procedure for your students to follow. The use of a routine will ensure that students know what to expect when moving from one station to another, as well as what to do at each station.
Providing these clear expectations will support classroom management. This will allow you to effectively and efficiently use stations throughout the year, not just to explore Easter.
While you are focusing on what you want your routine for centers to look like, we took on the task of creating all of the necessary materials for each station. Therefore, saving you planning and preparation time.
Below is a list of all the ready to use items included in our Easter Exploration Stations resource packet. All you will need to do is print the signs and determine where you wnat to set up your stations.
- 9 printable exploration stations
- Text to read aloud to students
- Tent signs for each station
- Editable work-boards
- Editable checklists for students
- Labels
- Letter banner template
Easter Math Center for PreK
In addition to Exploration Stations, centers can be used to provide additional practice in math and literacy. Moreover, math and literacy activities can easily be aligned with a theme – just like Exploration Stations.
Below are the Easter themed math activities you will find in our Easter math activities for preschoolers. Then, make sure to keep reading to see the additional Easter literacy activities you get in the same packet.
- Count and Clip: Counting Carrots
- Write and Count: Counting Eggs
- Graphing: Graphing Easter
- Measurement: Bunny Legs Measurement
- Bunny and Carrot Shapes: Drawing 2D Shapes
- Pattern Cards: Easter Egg Patterns
- Counting: Missing Number Carrots
- Number Recognition: Counting and Subitizing
Easter Literacy Center for PreK
If you think your students will enjoy the math center activities above then they are in for another treat with these Easter Literacy Center Activities! And, you will love that they come together in the same resource as the math centers. One price, two core content areas covered.
- Rhyming: Feed Me the Rhyming Words
- Counting and Fine Motor: Roll a Bunny
- Counting Syllables: Syllable Stack
- Letter Writing and Fine Motor: Egg Find and Trace
- Initial Sounds: Egg Match
- Uppercase and Lowercase Match: Jelly Bean Match
- On My Own Craft: Make a Bunny
- Writing Own Name: Peeps in a Basket Craft
- Sensory Bin: Chick Color Match
- Same and Different: Distinguishing Differences
- Free Write: Easter Writing Center
PreK Easter Activities
Beyond using centers for teaching students about Easter, there are several additional opportunities for engaging students in this topic through other learning experiences. From read alouds to STEM projects, Easter can be explored in any subject area.
Easter Read Aloud for Preschool
As a preschool teacher you already know how fun it is to explore a holiday or season through reading. Which means you may already have your favorite picture books to read with students this time of year. However, if you are looking for a new book to add to your library we have one we think you’ll like.
The Easter Bunny’s Assistant by Jan Thomas is one of our favorites. This delightful children’s book follows the misadventures of a skunk who eagerly wants to help the Easter Bunny deliver eggs. While the skunk is excited about the task, they unfortunately realize that their natural odor causes problems with this task. However, despite the setbacks, the skunk remains determined to assist the Easter Bunny.
This story is not only fun to read with kids but also provides opportunities to discuss important lessons such as the importance of perseverance and embracing one’s unique qualities. Kids will also learn about teamwork, acceptance, and finding alternative solutions to challenges.
While reading the book is quite fun on its own we know that as a teacher you need more to support the literacy development in yoru classroom. Therefore, we created a complete read aloud resource to go along with this wonderful book.
Here are all the learning activities you will find in our read aloud packet. These activities can be taught over the course of 3-5 days and you get to choose if you want to use them in a printable form or digitally.
- Comprehension questions
- Whole group response to text activities
- Response to text worksheets
- Writing pages
- Vocabulary cards and worksheets
- Quiz
- Retelling Puppets
- Craftivity template
Preschool Easter Songs
While singing can be used at any time of day, we love incorporating a song into circle time. Not only that, but we love to make songs about each theme or season to further support the unit we are exploring.
That’s why we created an Easter song for kids to enjoy as part of our Easter theme circle time resource. In addition to the Easter themed song lyrics that we paired with the familiar tune of The Wheels on the Bus, we created 2 corresponding learning activities. Therefore providing you with ready to teach resources with the song.
We didn’t just stop there though. We created an entire circle time packet! This includes everything you need for Easter circle time all month long adn not only the activities for the students, but the detailed lesson plans for easy implementation.
- teacher overview
- detailed circle time lesson plans
- print or projectable text
- 2 reread/review the text activities
- 3 responding to text activities
- song lyrics with a familiar tune + 2 corresponding activities
- pocket chart poem + 2 corresponding activities
- 3 game-style whole class activities
- 5 corresponding independent worksheets
- 1 emergent reader
Easter STEM Activities for Preschool
As we mentioned earlier, STEM is not only for older students. Over the last several years STEM has become an integral part of learning at all grade levels, including preschool. Which is why we we have made preschool STEM resources a key part of the curriculum products we create.
Just like any other subject area, STEM can easily be paired with a theme. To show you how this can be done let’s take a peek at the Easter STEM project below.
As with any STEM project there must be a problem to solve. In this project, preschoolers are presented with the following problem to solve: Build a way to keep the bunny out of the vegetable garden.
To solve this problem, students work together to go throught the engineering process.
What is the engineering process? Don’t worry! We have provided a step-by-step lesson plan that explains the engineering process and how to teach it to preschoolers.
In addition, as with all of our learning activities we have provided you with everything you need to make this an easy to implement project that will be an effective and engaging learning experience.
- Step-by-Step Lesson Plans
- STEM Exploration Process posters
- STEM Event and Exploration posters
- Printable Bunny and Garden Template
- Vocabulary Cards
- Explore Science Connections with QR Codes and an Infographic
- Materials List
- Planning Poster
- Recording Sheets
- Reflection Sheets
Whether Easter falls in March or April, and whether you are looking to engage students in Easter themed activities all month long or just for a few days, the resources above will help you get started.
