An Easter Idea Worth Saving

 

This Would Be an Egg-celent Idea for Teachers!

 

Peeps Science Experiment

 

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Easter Egg Letter Hunt

 

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FREE Simple Easter Egg Puzzles for Number Sense

 

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CVC Word Easter Egg Center

 

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Also Works If Your Classroom Goes Hunting!

 

Play-Doh Easter Basket With Eggs

 

Easter Treats!

 

Letter E and Easter Activities

Because this was a short week, our study of the letter E was relegated to Easter activities.
Using the Egg template described on Monday, the kids cut out eggs from wallpaper samples and glued them onto an Easter sign.

Not bad, huh? Next time, though, I'll put a bit more space between the letters.

And we did something totally different this year when it came to the Egg hunt. We did it in the classroom! Because the available playgrounds were already taken by other classes, I waited until the students were in another class, and hid all the eggs "in plain sight" in the room. Using their bunny bags we made on Wednesday, they had a terrific time finding the eggs because they had never done something like this before!

And, since it was after lunch, I let them eat some of the candy.

I did have one parent who sent cupcakes to celebrate, although we didn't officially have a party.

All in all, it was one terrific day.

Hope you all have a Wonderful Easter!

Our Easter Bunny Bags

Instead of bringing their baskets to school for the egg hunt, we made our own Bunny Bags.
After coloring this template (you can download!), we cut out the ears, eyes, nose, teeth, and cheeks, and glued them to the bag. The ears go on the back of the bag, facing forward.

Until we get this result. (The top is the opening. Don't forget the whiskers!)

And, of course, no bunny is finished until you add the cotton tail!

An Easter Egg Template

With this week being a short week, our letter for the week is E, and we're going to be doing a lot of Easter Egg activities.

To begin with, I needed to make some egg templates.
I started with simple thick cardboard, like the side of a cracker or cereal box.

 

 

I found these egg templates on a wonderful site called firstpalette dot com.

 

Cutting them apart, I taped two on a side. (Three would fit, but two were more manageable.)

 

Then I poked a hole in the egg, and cut out the center.

Voila! Two palm-sized egg templates!

 

 

For our first activity, I pulled out the old wallpaper books, and tore out some sheets.

 

Laying the template on the back, I traced them, then cut them out.

 

I now have two eggs I can use for decorating!

 

Stay tuned to see what we did with our eggs!

Egg Words

If you're like me, you have stashed away among your Easter stuff some empty plastic eggs. With the holiday coming up, I thought I'd use them to reinforce sight words by making a little game out of it. So I created EGG WORDS.

There's two ways to play it: Up to 4 people can play per game. Basically, one person opens and egg, and they all try to arrange it into one of their sight words. First person to identify the word gets it and the egg. When all the eggs have been checked, the student with the most eggs wins.

Second way to play it: First person picks an egg and tries to arrange the letters into a sight word. If they can't figure it out, they put the egg back, and the next person draws an egg. (Or they can choose the same egg the other person put back if they're pretty sure they know what the word is.) If they get the word right, next person draws. (They don't get to pick another egg. Only one egg per person per round.) Person who ends up with the most eggs wins.