Preschool Easter Activities and Lesson Planning Ideas

Below you can find tons of fun and engaging Easter Activities! Pick and choose the activities for your lesson or download a free copy of our Easter Preschool Lesson Plan to save you time!

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Plastic Egg Printing

Open ended Easter Egg Printing
tutorial from Pre-K Printable Fun

*Egg Shakers Song and Music Craft

Create egg shakers with your students following our Make Your Own Maracas Tutorial

After you create your eggs listen to the song in the video and sing along! Sing the song each day of the week.

**Teacher Tip: For younger preschoolers that still place items in their mouth, consider purchasing egg shakers
Check out this video from Jbrary for a song to compliment your Easter Egg shakers.

Easter Chick Craft

Community Member Sheena W. of Building Blocks Family Childcare submitted this idea.
She invited her students to create a chick using two yellow circle cutouts, googly eyes, craft materials, and their handprints.

Experiment with Colors while Dying Eggs

Dying eggs is such a fun hands-on way to experiment with colors! Explore what happens when.... eggs are left in for longer, only dipped slightly, colored with a white crayon, or dunked into multiple colors!

Add some decorative finishes to eggs

Set out some glue, googly eyes, and construction paper for your preschoolers to add some extra flair to their eggs. This would also be fun to do with the hollowed out dyed eggs!

More Easter Art and Creativity Ideas:

Set out recyclables for children to make Easter baskets out of. Consider adding: empty milk jugs, cardboard juice cartons, cardstock, shredded paper, pine needles, tin cans, coffee cans
Bunny Play Dough Invitation from Fantastic Fun and Learning
Symmetry Easter Egg by Chic Mummy
Paper Plate Easter Basket by Nurture Store
Felt Board Easter Eggs from Fireflies and Mudpies
Roly Poly Easter Eggs by Chloe the Bear
Loose Parts Rabbit Art by Fantastic Fun and Learning

Add Baskets, Bunny Ears, and Pretend Easter Eggs to your Dramatic Play Space.

Easter Bunny Dress Up

Set up a fun invitation for your preschooler to dress up as the Easter bunny! Suggested props: bunny ears, white and brown fabrics (long pieces that can be draped around their body), and clothespins to secure cloth.

Create a Basket Factory

Gather supplies to put together Easter baskets and transform your dramatic play stand into an Easter Basket Factory!

Create an Easter Store

Little Learners

Reader Member Tara K. of Little Learners Daycare and Preschool Center created this adorable Easter Store in her space.

Decorate for Easter

Let your students decorate their space for Easter. Set out a variety of Easter decorations to your Dramatic Play Space and allow the Children to decorate their own space.

Add a variety of Easter Inspired Items to your construction space this week. Allow the children to explore with new Building Materials such as Easter Eggs and Egg Cartons. Add small baskets, and Bunnies to the space for small world play fun.

Build Structures using Plastic Eggs

Use play dough or clay, and plastic eggs to build structures. In addition to a fun building activity, this is also great for building fine motor skills.

Small World Easter Maze

Add props to the construction center for preschoolers to create their own mini Easter egg hunts or mazes.
Suggested props: mini chalk boards (or paint wood blocks with chalkboard paint), mini eggs, little bunnies, felt or cloth in a variety of colors and of course a variety of blocks.

More Ideas

Free Bunny Pattern Block Printable from Pre-Kinders

*Flip and Find Easter Egg Letter Match

Flip over an egg card with a letter on it, identify the letter then find and mark the matching letter on the mat!
This set includes both lowercase egg cards as well as uppercase to individualize the activity based on skill level.
Find this activity in the Pre-K Printable Fun Easter Pack

Easter 3-Part Cards

3-Part cards are a great way to learn new vocabulary words.
There are many fun ways to use these cards:

Leave whole to use as a matching game
Cut the word from the image and challenge children to read the word and match it to the correct picture.
Place in the writing center

These cards are included in the Pre-K Printable Fun Easter Pack

Easter First Sounds Clip Cards

Practice letter sounds with these hands-on clip cards!
Identify the item on the card, then determine what sound the word starts with. Identify the correct letter and clip with a clothes pin.

This activity is easy to set up in a small basket for children to select anytime. This activity can be found inside our Easter Pack

Name Practice: Feed the Bunny

Get in some name practice with this editable feed the bunny name activity, part of our Name Activities Pack.

5 Easter Eggs Preschool Rhyme

Here is a fun Easter egg rhyme on Youtube that you can do during circle time.
This activity could be done with felt or plastic eggs!

Easter Egg Letter Hunt

Hide Magnetic Letters inside the plastic eggs. Place the eggs around the classroom, playground or other designated area. Give children baskets with specific letter cards. Once they find an egg, they open the egg and see if it matched one of their letter cards. If it does, they put it in their basket. If not, they put it back from someone else to find! Children will practice letter identification as well as get some fine motor practice as they find and open each egg.

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We’re Going on an Egg Hunt by Martha Mumford
The Easter Egg by Jan Brett
Duck & Goose, Here Comes the Easter Bunny! by Tad Hills
Happy Easter Mouse by Laura Numeroff
Here Comes the Easter Cat by Deborah Underwood and Claudia Rueda
The Night Before Easter by Natasha Wing
Markey and the Great Easter Egg Hunt by John Grogan

There are so many ways to transform plastic Easter eggs into math activities. Be sure to check out the 10+ Ways to Reuse Plastic Easter Eggs blog post for some specific ideas.

*Fill the Bunny's Basket

Fill the Easter Bunny's basket with eggs! Use your own little eggs (mini egg erasers, craft eggs) or the printable eggs included in the Pre-K Printable Fun Easter Pack

Sorting by Color & Size

Invite your preschooler to sort by color and size with this set of Easter Sorting by Size & Color.

Easter Chick Number Match Mats

Develop and practice a variety of math skills with this adorable activity!

Start with a basket number mat, then add math counters (pom poms, small eggs, or printable eggs included in the pack). Next, match-up the numeral, the written number, and the correct ten-frame card. Customize based on skill level.
Found inside our Easter Pack

Feed the Bunny Shape Match

Kids will have fun sorting these 2D shaped carrots in this feed the bunny shape sorting activity found inside the Pre-K Printable Fun Easter Pack

Easter Basket Math Recipe Activity

Easter Basket Math Recipe Cards

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Easter Egg Patterns using plastic eggs

Have children create patterns using colored plastic Easter eggs. You can set up different types of patterns in the math center with a basket filled with plastic eggs that can be used to finish the patterns. Invite children to finish the patterns by putting the correct color egg at the end of each pattern.

Easter Egg Positional Phrases Seek and Find Activity

Play a fun game of Easter Egg Seek and Find by calling out a positional phrase to help children find the eggs. For example: "Find an egg under a chair." You can have all of the children play at once or take turns. For added fun, each child could have their own Easter basket to collect eggs in!

Dissolving Peeps Experiment

Gather up some peeps for this fun learning experience!
We have all the details for this engaging activity on our Dissolving Peeps Experiment blog post.

Magnetic Egg Sorting

This activity was submitted by community member Sheena W. of Building Blocks Family Child Care.

For this activity you will need about 10 sturdy plastic Easter eggs, various objects (some magnetic), a magnet wand, and tape or glue for the eggs (optional).
Fill about half of your eggs with magnetic items such as bolts, bells, paper clips, and chenille sticks. Fill the other half with non-magnetic items such as small rocks, pom poms, and erasers.
You can place your eggs in a bed of shredded paper for added appeal.
Challenge children to use their magnetic want to sort the eggs into two different baskets; Magnetic and Not Magnetic.

Older children may be interested in opening the eggs after the activity to explore which items were magnetic and explore them further. For younger children, be sure to seal the eggs.

Easter Egg Sink or Float

Invite your preschoolers to experiment with buoyancy with a fun sink or float experiment. Provide Easter eggs in a variety of sizes along with a variety of items children can put inside to test if they sink or float.

Easter Themed Sensory Play

Carrot Sensory Bin from Erica P. Erica's Educare Learning Center
Chicks and Eggs from Erica P. of Erica's Educare Learning Center
Easter Eggs & Rice from Felecia J. of Mrs. Felecia's Playhouse Preschool
Chalk Egg Bin by Erica P. of Erica's Educare Learning Center
Easter Eggs and Tongs Bin by Erica P. of Erica's Educare Learning Center
Sensory Bin Created by Sheryl M. (I loved how she used the Egg Dipping Tongs!)

Dissolving Jelly Beans

Set up clear containers with different liquids such as vinegar, milk, dish soap, soda, water, and juice. Put a few jelly beans in each container. Have children observe the jelly beans before they go in the liquids and then at different intervals after being added to the liquid. Invite them to make a guess of which liquid will dissolve the jelly beans the fastest.

Microwave Peeps

Place several Peeps on a paper plate. Have children make guesses about what they think will happen to the Peeps when they are put in the microwave. Put the Peeps in the microwave for 30 seconds and observe. Take the Peeps out of the microwave (caution, the Peeps may be hot!) and have students describe what they see.

Grow Herbs inside Eggs

Take eggshells that have been cracked at the top in order to plant different types of herbs to grow in the classroom! Rinse out each shell and then have children decorate their eggshells. Add potting mix into each shell and then herb seeds of your choice. Place in a spot that gets sunlight and water according to the seed instructions. Have children observe their growing herbs!

More Easter Science Preschool Activities

There are a variety of items you can add to your sensory table for Easter week some ideas include: Pastel Dyed Rice or Pasta, Shredded Paper, Pretend Easter Eggs, Chicks, Carrots, or Dried peas

Easter Egg Sticky Wall from Toddler Approved
20 Science Activities with Plastic Eggs from Inspiration Laboratories
Magnet Science with Easter Eggs from Modern Preschool
11 Egg Experiments for kids from I Game Mom

Egg Relay Race

Setting up an egg relay race is simple and the kids will love it!
You need a spoon and egg for each child, try using plastic Easter eggs and hard boiled eggs so children can see the difference.

*Chocolate Bunny Number Puzzle

To support fine motor and math development set out some number puzzles like this Chocolate Bunny puzzle from the Free Pre-K Printable Fun Easter Pack

Fine Motor Sweeping Mats: Egg Hunt

Inside my collection of Spring Fine Motor Sweeping Mats you can find this egg hunt sweeping mat perfect for this theme!
Try pairing this mat with multiple colors for children to create their own fun design.

Easter Egg Shape Hunt

Our fun and engaging Easter Egg Shape Hunt is a gross motor game that also supports shape recognition and matching!

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Assemble Plastic Eggs

Give children plastic Easter eggs that have not been put together. Have them find a top piece and bottom piece then assemble. You can even have them take the eggs apart again before the next child completes the activity. You could extend this activity by having students match colors to create Easter eggs with a top and bottom that are the same color.

Egg Scooping

Set up a bin of water filled with plastic Easter eggs. Give children various utensils such as a ladle or tongs. Have children scoop the eggs out of the bin and transfer to an empty container. Make this activity even more festive by using food coloring to dye the water a spring color like pink or purple!

Egg Roll

Give each student a plastic egg. Set up a start line and a finish line. Have the children roll their plastic egg from one end to the other. You can play different variations of this game to keep it fun and interesting such as having to roll the egg only using their feet, rolling the egg only using their hands, having to crawl and roll the egg, or even having them roll the egg by pushing it with their noses or forehead. Any variation you choose will be great gross motor play!

More Easter Physical Development Preschool Activity Ideas:

Hula Hoop bunny hop: Set up hula hoops (maybe 6, you can also use ribbon or silk scarves in a circle) a few feet from one another. Challenge children to hop from the inside of one hula to the inside of the next. Do all 6, then do somersaults back to the beginning and get hopping again!
Set up Easter egg hunts inside and out. Hide eggs in places that will get children squatting, up on their tippy toes, jumping, and crawling.
Easter Eggs-ercises from The Seasoned Mom
Easter Scissor Practice from Itsy Bitsy Fun
Easter Play Dough Mats from 3 Dinosaurs

Egg Faces Match-up

Draw eyes (or use eye stickers) on the top half of plastic Easter eggs. Then draw a mouth on the bottom.
Draw faces that children can match-up to convey different emotions.
Ask your child to guess what emotion the face is displaying. Can they practice making that face?
Take the assembled eggs to circle time. Pass the eggs around in a circle while playing music. When the music stops, each child makes the face that is on their egg.

Teamwork: Play a Group Game Together

To encourage group play and turn taking set out this fun roll and build a bunny activity found inside our Free Easter Pack

Easter Egg Coloring Party

Invite families to come to the program to color eggs with their child.
You could provide simple egg dying stations or set out plastic eggs with sharpies to decorate.

Easter Decorating Showcase-Parent Involvement

Send home an egg cutout, invite families to decorate in any way they wish and then bring
back to display in the classroom.

Easter Theme Sign-in Activity

Welcome your students to class with this engaging name recognition activity.
Includes a variety of themes and available in the shop!

Save Money: Re-use those Plastic Easter Eggs

Preschoolers love plastic Easter Eggs and they sure have a way of stacking up!
Find plenty of fun and educational uses for them on my blog post 10+Ways to Reuse Plastic Easter Eggs

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