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
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!
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2. Preschool Counting Egg Hunt
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.
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3. Balloon Hunt
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.
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4. Bunny Tracks
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.
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5. Dissolving Peeps
This simple STEM activity for littles is (mostly) mess-free and will have your students amazed at how these puffy little sugar chicks disappear.
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6. Easter Egg Bubble Wands
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!
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7. Sugar Crystal Easter Shapes
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.
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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.
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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.
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10. Easter Egg Bowling
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.
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11. ABC Hunt and Stamp
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!
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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.
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13. Gross Motor Egg Game
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.
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14. Letter Sounds Egg Hunt
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.
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15. Peeps Puppets
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!
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16. Fine Motor Eggs
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.
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17. Easter Matching
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.
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18. Jumping Jack Board Game
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.
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19. Book: How to Catch the Easter Bunny
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.
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20. Easter Egg Snack Match
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.
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21. Book: We're Going on an Egg Hunt
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.
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22. Easter Coloring Pages
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!
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23. Spring and Easter Playdough Mats
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.
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24. Easter Themed Lesson Pack
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.
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25. Pin the Tail on the Bunny
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.
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26. Hot Egg
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.
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27. Cotton Ball Bunnies
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.
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28. Easter Bunny Hat
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.
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29. Religious Easter Activity
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.
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30. Easter Egg Counting
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.
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31. Chick and Egg Letter Matching
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.
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32. Fingerprint Bunny
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.
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