Free Easter Clip Art! http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/easter/gb.html English Language Easter Activities
(from http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/easter/party.html unless otherwise noted)
How many eggs?
Instructions How To Play: Have children write their name on a small piece of paper and their guess as to how many chocolate eggs are in the jar. The child who guesses the right number, or comes closest takes the jar of candy home to share with their family.
Resources
Large glass jar filled with chocolate eggs Small pieces of paper Easter basket Pencil http://bogglesworl d.com/easter_wor ksheets.htm
Easter word find
How To Play: Take an Easter related word such as: Basket,
Chocolate, Chickens, etc. and find as many little words as possible before the timer runs out.
Example: Chocolate Words: late, at, ate, tea, tale, tool, cool, hat, hot, cat, coat...
See also Easter Egg Word Hunt sheet on the Chatteris site – good for secondary Or http://www.dltk-holidays.com/easter/m-wordmine.htm comes in colour or black & white How To Play: Choose an Easter word such as: Easter Bunny, Chocolate, Basket, Hippity-Hop.... Write the letters of the word on individual index cards. Do this two times, making two sets. Put each set in a brown paper bag. Divide children into teams. Give each team a bag. The first team to decipher what the word in the bag is wins. A variation of the game would be to divide into teams with the same number of children as there are letters in the word. Each child get's a letter and they must hold onto the card and stand in the proper order to spell the word for all to see. How To Play: Everyone makes their own version of the Easter Bunny. Hang them up for decoration and if you wish have a Beauty Contest. Recognize the most creative, prettiest, funniest, etc.
Easter Scramble
Index Cards Paper Bags
Beautiful Bunnies Beauty Contest Easter Rhymes
See Easter Rhymes sheet on the Chatteris site – good for secondary
A cut out bunny for each child Scissors Markers Cotton balls (for tail) http://bogglesworl d.com/easter_wor ksheets.htm
EasterHot-CrossBuns
How to Play: Everyone is divided into four groups either: Easter, Hot, Cross or Buns. Each group moves to one corner of the room. All the students stand up and the teacher calls one of the groups. Everyone in the corresponding group must sit down. The last player to sit down in the in the group is eliminated. This player then moves to the centre with the teacher and helps call and judge which players are eliminated. How To Play: Put papers with Easter objects written on them into basket. Divide children into two groups. Flip a coin to see which team goes first. Invite a child from the playing team to approach the chalkboard, draw a slip of paper, and read it to themselves. On your mark, the child should then draw the object in hopes that his/her team members will guess the object on their paper. If the team guesses correctly, before time runs out, they score a point. If the playing team does not guess correctly the other team has five seconds to try to come up with the correct answer. If they guess correctly they score a point and it is their turn to play.
This game can be simplified for young players utilizing words such as: carrot, bunny, candy. Make more difficult for older players by using short phrases: chocolate bunnies taste good, marshmallow chicks are yellow, etc.
*thank miss danielle spencer for this one!
Easter Pictionary
Easter Egg Faces
Review face vocab (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hair, eyebrows, cheeks, chin, etc.). Use real egg shells (before class get some eggs, puncture a hole at both ends and blow out the insides of the egg, then wash out).
http://www.eslkids tuff.com/EasterGa mes.htm - You can use paper templates instead of eggs small
Do as a listening activity – T says “draw a nose” and children draw a nose, and so on. Also good for adjectives – “Draw a long nose”, “draw big eyes”, etc. English Egg It‟s good if you can hide the eggs around the classroom before the pupils come in. If this is not possible then each time you (or they) Hunt * the hide an egg you get a volunteer egg hunter to leave the room. British council
suggestion
Use this activity to practise prepositions of place such as „under‟ „behind‟ „next to‟. You could spilt the class into groups by colours. The red team has to find all the red eggs for example. Number the team members and blindfold number 1. The class has to direct him or her using the prepositions of place that you will have taught them before the game or in a different lesson. Make sure the hiding places are easily accessible if using blindfolds. If you have three teams searching at once then it could get rowdy so why not have a whispering rule! Don‟t forget that everyone should find an egg by the end of the game. They can then stick them in their books or eat them – depending on what you decided to use.
chocolate eggs or simply with eggs drawn on coloured pieces of card
http://www.british council.org/langu ageassistantprimaryeaster.htm
Easter Egg Hunt *the
ESL version
How To Play: Hide the eggs while the children are out of the room (with the co-teacher or vice versa). Have the children find as many eggs as they can. Then have children go back to their tables or groups and count how many eggs the whole group has. Highest number of eggs collected gets to make their treats first. Teach them expressions like “I‟ve found one!”, “Where are the eggs?”, etc See Secondary Easter Egg Hunt Writing on the Chatteris site A gap activity available on the Chatteris site – good for secondary Secondary Easter Egg Hunt Info Gap A Secondary Easter Egg Hunt Info Gap B
100+ Construction paper Easter eggs cut out
Secondary Easter Egg Hunt Writing Hot-Cross Buns Song
http://bogglesworl d.com/easter_wor ksheets.htm
Hot-cross Buns! Hot-cross Buns! One a penny, two a penny, Hot-cross Buns! Hot-cross Buns! Hot-cross Buns! If ye have no daughters Give them to your sons.
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/mo ther-goose-nursery-rhymes/hot-crossbuns.html
Hot cross buns, hot cross buns, one a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns. If you do not like them, give them to your sons, one a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns.
http://www.learnenglish.de/Temp/April/E aster.htm
Poems
Reflections of The Cross
Jesus is the Reason. Easter is His Season. Renewal is in the air. WE bow our heads in prayer. Conviction, Crucifixion. Resurrection, His Perfection Our Salvation, Celebration! Meditation and Elation. Glory, Glory, Inspiration. Alleluia, Adoration! All Reflections of the Cross.
http://sunniebunniezz.com/poetry/thecross.htm Books The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter – online version http://wiredforbooks.org/kids/beatrix/p1.htm