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32 Easter Activities and Ideas for Preschool

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September 14, 2022 //  by Ashley Charles

Springtime boasts new beginnings, renewal of life, and everyone's favorite holiday: Easter! Tie in these themes with your preschool-aged children and toddlers to get them into the spirit of the season and the Easter Bunny through crafts, activities, and lessons.

1. Easter Egg Hunt for Lunch

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Use tiny foods and snacks, plastic eggs, and a clean, recycled egg carton to spice up lunch the week of Easter! Kids will have a blast searching for their lunch and then eating it right out of their eggs!

Learn more: Gluesticks

2. Preschool Counting Egg Hunt

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Have preschoolers practice their counting by numbering the eggs. Once they find a number, they identify it and you can add that many eggs to their bucket.

Learn more: Coffee Cups and Crayons

3. Balloon Hunt

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This Easter egg hunt is the perfect activity for kids, especially toddlers and preschoolers! It makes finding the eggs a smidge easier so they can take part in the fun activity.

Learn more: Celebrations at Home

4. Bunny Tracks

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Want to lead little ones to their Easter basket or other springtime treasure? Use a stencil or simply draw with white chalk bunny paw prints on the sidewalk for an adorable trail.

Learn more: Smart Schoolhouse

5. Dissolving Peeps

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This simple STEM activity for littles is (mostly) mess-free and will have your students amazed at how these puffy little sugar chicks disappear.

Learn more: Lemon Lime Adventures

6. Easter Egg Bubble Wands

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This simple activity is perfect for preschoolers. Create adorable Easter Egg shaped bubble wands for kids to use outside at recess or whenever their wee little minds need a bubble break!

Learn more: Go Science Kids

7. Sugar Crystal Easter Shapes

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This timeless science activity is one all kids love. Simply use pipe cleaners and simple syrup to help kids dip their shapes and actually grow crystals! They will be amazed at the results. Make the pipe cleaner shapes ahead of time if you are in a classroom to help those little fingers keep up.

Learn more: Fantastic Fun and Learning

8. Marbled Milk Explosion

Mimic the variety of pastels and a bunny tail at Easter with this preschool science activity. Kids will be amazed at the reaction that happens and want to do it again and again.

Learn more: Steleo - Educational Videos for Kids

9. Rainbow Foam Eggs

Baking soda and Easter eggs make this a super fun science activity one the kids won't forget. This is perfect in the preschool classroom because the ingredients are safe and easy to find, and if you let the kids do it in an aluminum baking pan you'll spend less time cleaning.

Learn more: Steleo - Educational Videos for Kids

10. Easter Egg Bowling

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Little ones will adore this version of the classic game of bowling. Not only is it festive, but for preschoolers, it's the perfect alternative to actual bowling and is so simple. The eggs don't actually fall down, so resetting the toys will be a breeze each time.

Learn more: And Next Comes L

11. ABC Hunt and Stamp

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Your tiny tots will look for the letter on the eggs they are hunting and use the matching stamp to stamp the letter they found on the notebook. With one-to-one correspondence for letter recognition, this is the perfect combination of letter learning, dexterity, and fun!

Learn more: From Playdough to Plato

12. Five Little Bunnies at Easter

Videos today are much more entertaining than they used to be. It is so nice to be able to provide all modalities of learning with kids these days. Preschoolers all learn the classic song, "Five Little Bunnies." Because kids already know the old version, they'll easily pick up on the Easter version in no time.

Learn More: The Kiboomers - Kids Music Channel

13. Gross Motor Egg Game

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Opportunities for practicing motor skills for toddlers are a must. This mess-free activity will keep kids challenged and entertained as they try to walk from the start line to the finish line without dropping their eggs. It might be challenging at first, but once they start getting it they'll be so proud of themselves.

Learn more: Gift of Curiosity

14. Letter Sounds Egg Hunt

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When preschoolers find the eggs for this hunt, they will have to pull out a small object and figure out the sound that the first letter of the object starts with. Make sure to be close by so that they can have help when they need it.

Learn more: This Reading Mama

15. Peeps Puppets

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Allow preschoolers to create little finger puppets from these adorable templates that look like bunny peeps. Allow them to take turns acting out a story or some other fun scene with one another. Use construction paper, foam, or other mediums you might have laying around to create a fun activity!

Learn more: Laly Mom

16. Fine Motor Eggs

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Pompoms and plastic eggs make a challenging, yet important activity for preschool kids to practice their fine motor skills. Whether part of a sensory bin or just as a stand-alone activity, you can add another layer of challenge by turning it into a color-matching game as well.

Learn more: Craftulate

17. Easter Matching

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When it comes to activities for preschoolers, matching games are a hit with little kids. A little prep work and laminating are all you need to get your students' activity set up. This fun game will offer them practice with many skills, including pattern, color matching, and memory exercises.

Learn more: Powerful Mothering

18. Jumping Jack Board Game

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This one is a game-changer! Get preschool kids laughing in no time with Jumping Jack, as players compete to see who can pull Jack's favorite carrot. Once they do they'll get a surprise as Jack jumps into the air and startles everyone.

Learn more: Amazon

19. Book: How to Catch the Easter Bunny

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When it comes to Easter books, the book ideas are endless. This adorable tale of a slippery bunny will get kids and families thinking about how they could build their very own bunny traps. Perfect for little ones and it will grow with them as they get older.

Learn more: Amazon

20. Easter Egg Snack Match

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Kids can practice their memory with this fun game where they can eat the pieces when they win! What preschooler doesn't enjoy a good Goldfish Cracker or Teddy Graham? Especially when it's an incentive to practice some memory skills.

Learn more: Messy Motherhood

21. Book: We're Going on an Egg Hunt

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It's bunny time for toddlers! If some of them don't really know what an egg hunt is, this lift-the-flap book is an amazing idea as a read-aloud ahead of time to get them prepared for the many traditions of Easter.

Learn more: Amazon

22. Easter Coloring Pages

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Who doesn't love free downloadable activities? Having kids color their hearts out with these adorable Easter-themed coloring pages for Easter is always a great activity. Make it messier with some watercolor!

Learn more: Kids Activities

23. Spring and Easter Playdough Mats

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This sensory activity is a nice addition to any lineup of Easter festivities. Kids love playdough and this engaging activity will be one you probably need to repeat over and over. Give kids instructions about what to create with the image and the dough, or allow them to do some self-discovery in a center.

Learn more: This Reading Mama

24. Easter Themed Lesson Pack

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This adorable and downloadable set of lessons makes lesson planning a little bit easier than trying to plan out activities and lessons yourself. These activities for preschoolers will last you quite some time so stretch them over a week, or do a few a day.

Learn more: This Reading Mama

25. Pin the Tail on the Bunny

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While this replaces the classic "Pin the Tail on the Donkey," This classic game is always one of the most exciting activities at a gathering or party. Kids will cheer one another on, laugh, and keep the fun going as they try to pin the tail on the bunny.

Learn more: Etsy

26. Hot Egg

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Have preschoolers play hot potato but with a (cold) boiled egg instead! This creative activity takes the fun of a frantic game and adds a slippery, boiled egg. For bonus points, find some upbeat music to help with the game.

Learn more: Better Homes and Gardens

27. Cotton Ball Bunnies

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These adorable cotton ball bunnies should be on everyone's list of activities. A great keepsake for parents, and a simple fun art activity for preschoolers, it's a win-win.

Learn more: Making Things is Awesome

28. Easter Bunny Hat

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Preschoolers love a good hat. They will wear it all day and sometimes even every day. This free printable is simple for kids to color and will leave every preschooler in your class extremely happy.

Learn more: Simply Kinder

29. Religious Easter Activity

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If you are religious, this adorable Easter activity is ready to print and just needs a few small tweaks to make it perfect. Do it as a family, with a Sunday school group, or in a private school. A couple of excess materials are needed but nothing too difficult to find.

Learn more: Etsy

30. Easter Egg Counting

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Have preschoolers practice their egg counting prior to going out for the actual egg hunt. Provide a few snacks while kids are working through their numbers and you'll have a favorite new counting activity year after year.

Learn more: Etsy

31. Chick and Egg Letter Matching

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Let little minds practice their letters with these adorable egg cutouts and baby chicks. These printables for preschool children are a real-time saver, and offer plenty of practice that is catered to the holiday.

Learn more: Etsy

32. Fingerprint Bunny

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Who doesn't love a good messy craft? This one doubles as a keepsake because those little hands will never be the same size again. You can cut the silhouette of a bunny or other springtime image you want to show on your project.

Learn more: Pinterest

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