Easter Centers and Activities for Little Learners

It’s bunny time, which means Easter centers and activities for my little learners. Grab your lesson plan book because I’m sharing my favorite go-to Easter centers and activities! Plus, I created a yummy Peep freebie for you, too.

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Easter Centers and Activities for Pre-Writing

Easter Egg Pre-Writing Lines! I drew some eggs. Then, I made some line dice with white stickers and drew different kinds of lines on a foam cube. Students rolled the die and drew the line in the Easter egg. This is a fun activity to help little hands develop fine motor muscles and practice the various types of lines that form letters.

Easter Centers and Activities for Literacy

5 Bunnies Retelling! Five Little Bunnies Hopping on a Hill is a subtraction book my little learners LOVE. It’s similar to 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed. As I read the book, each time something happens to a bunny, a student takes one bunny away. Students are counting, subtracting, and rhyming when we read this book. Using story props makes books come to life for students. After we read the book several times during circle, I put it in my library center. The math conversations students had as they reread the book using the bunnies were priceless! I found these stuffed animal bunnies at the Dollar Tree.

Peep Letter & Sound Match! It’s not Easter without PEEPS! I created a simple and colorful Peep Beginning Sound Match game. My pre-k students matched the beginning sounds, uppercase letters, and lowercase letters. You can also make the game age-appropriate for three-year-olds. Take out the sound cards, and the students only match the uppercase and lowercase letter peeps.

Easter Invitation to Write! Other teachers often ask me what I do for table time or morning work. Each morning, I have different activities set up at each of my large tables for table time (aka preschool morning work). I often set up invitations to write using supplies from my writing center. This Easter-themed invitation to write has Easter writing paper, Easter stickers, Easter word cards, and various writing tools. Grab the FREE Family Word Cards HERE.

Easter Writing Center! Set up your writing center with an adorable Easter theme to get students interested in writing. I have word cards, mini erasers, stickers, themed paper, fun writing utensils, and letter formation cards.

Easter Write the Room! Hide these egg letters around your room and give students a clipboard, paper, and writing utensil. Then, students walk around and find the letters. Once they find one, they find it on their paper and trace the letter with their marker. This is a great rainy day activity since students can be up-moving while also learning.

Egg Hunt for Letters! Set up this fun and simple literacy activity for preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten students with things you already have in your classroom! There is just plain white paper in the dry-erase pockets because kids LOVE dry-erase boards, and this is a much cheaper option. I then hide letter manipulatives in the Easter eggs. Students pick an egg from the grass, open it, name it, string it, and write it. So many skills in one activity!

Easter Egg Writing Tray! This tray has purple sprinkles and bunny sprinkles in it. Students find an egg letter match, then write the uppercase and lowercase letters in the tray. Writing trays are the best tool I use for practicing letters. Students get super excited when they see writing trays out! When was the last time your students were excited about handwriting worksheets? This is fun, engaging hands-on learning! You can also use dyed salt to make the base and add sprinkles for extra fun.

Easter Book List! There are so many great children’s books for Easter, but I have rounded up a few of my favorites that have always been loved in my classroom. Check out the whole list here.

Easter Egg Sight Words! Students build their sight words using eggs and then write the word on the recording page. For more fun, put the sight word cards in large plastic eggs!

Building Words! Students can build Easter vocabulary words with letter manipulatives in an egg carton. This is a simple way to add a new tool that will increase engagement with a normal word-building activity.

Hiding Letters! Grab an egg carton, some plastic eggs, and a bucket of letter manipulatives, and you are set to play this fun letter-matching game. I wrote the capital letter on the top and the lowercase letter on the bottom of the egg. Then, students can match the letters and place them in the egg carton with the corresponding letter. Make it more challenging by having the students find the letter manipulative that matches, as well.

Letter Puzzles! Cut your paper plates into puzzles and have students complete the letter puzzles! Cut the plates differently to make self-checking puzzles or make the cut all the same, and it will be more difficult for little learners.  Letter puzzles are a favorite of my paper plate activities!

Easter Centers and Activities for Math

Carrot Numbers! I set this activity up on the light table and used these clear carrot eggs. Students used tweezers to pick up pom poms and put the matching number inside. They also had to find the matching number card, which is a FREEBIE here. 

Jellybean More & Less! Practice one more and one less with these cute jellybean number mats. I gave students pom poms for the jellybeans. They can pick a number card or a jellybean card and place it in the middle. Then, they count and write the number that is one more and one less.

Pattern Easter Eggs! Use things from your classroom to make this hands-on pattern game. You don’t always have to have fancy printables to make a great activity for your students! Students can make their own patterns or finish yours, depending on their level. 

Number Easter Eggs! These are a fun way for students to practice identifying numerals and develop one-to-one correspondence. Students identify the number on the egg, count out the corresponding number of mini erasers to fill the egg, and place the egg in the matching egg carton hole.  (It’s just another reason why I had to buy those cute mini erasers from Target!)

Easter Number Sort! There are so many different ways to represent a quantity (ten frames, tally marks, fingers, numerals, dice, objects). This Easter Number Sort game is a fun way for students to explore this concept. Students count ten frames, fingers, and identify numerals, then match them to the corresponding Easter basket.

Number Match! Grab these number matching game boards for a fun way to practice number identification and quantity. Students pick a quantity card from the sensory bin (cut-up wreath tubing) and find the corresponding number on the mats.

Counting Trays! Create a counting tray with these devilled egg holders from the dollar store. I wrote numbers in each section, and students counted the matching number of pom poms. Leave the tray blank and give students a die to roll. Then they can count that many pom poms and place them in the tray.

Addition Trays! Make the activity a little harder by writing addition problems in the egg tray. Students can use counting manipulatives to solve the problems. Leave the tray blank and give students 2 dice to roll. Then they can count that many pom poms and place them in the tray.

Jellybean Graph! Prep by filling eggs with a set number of jellybeans. For the activity, students pick one egg and graph the jellybeans that are inside. Talk about most, least, and equal to with these yummy graphs.

How Many Are Hiding? Informal Subtraction! Give students an opportunity to practice subtraction skills with this fun partner game. To play, one student hides eggs under the cup, and the other student tries to figure out how many are hiding.

Peep Patterns! Set out peeps the night before so they harden. Then, students use the peeps to stamp patterns with paint.

Bunny and Carrot Shape Puzzles! My students LOVED matching the bunny and carrot shapes. I placed the pieces in a sensory tub for even more fun.

Easter Color Sort Light Table! Use plastic eggs to create a color-sorting game on the light table. The bowls are egg-dyeing bowls from Easter kits. I also set out plastic eggs and tons of pom poms for students to sort and count. All the different colors are extra fun and a great addition to the light table!

Easter Centers and Activities for Science, STEM, and Blocks

5 Senses with Peeps! Peeps are so sparkly and fun that I developed a five-senses activity with them! I created this Peep Anchor Chart to record how students described the peeps. Five senses activities are a fabulous way to build students’ vocabulary. Don’t be afraid to use big words with your little learners. If they can say tyrannosaurus rex, they can say anything! After we described the peeps, we had a Peep Taste Test. Students recorded how the peeps tasted on their recording page. 

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Egg Science Investigation! Learn about eggs with this science table that is sure to intrigue your little learners. Learn about different kinds of eggs, sizes of eggs, and other bird information.

Hatching Chicks Science! Want to hatch chicks in your room? This science setup is just what you need to teach your students about the life cycle of a chicken, its body parts, and more!

Easter Blocks and STEM Props! Create an Easter-themed blocks area with these STEM I Can Build Cards that encourage students to explore and construct structures in the blocks area. I added some Easter-themed building props, too.

Student Creations! In the blocks center, I added fake flowers, plastic carrot eggs, plastic Easter eggs, spring stuffed animals, and EASTER STEM I Can Build challenge cards. Look at this amazing enclosure my pre-k student built. If you look closely, you can see that he hid eggs in the flowers for an Easter egg hunt!

Student Creations! This is another student STEM structure that I was just so impressed with. Remember, your little learners can do more than you think! Give them opportunities to be challenged, and they will impress you!

Easter Centers and Activities for Sensory, Art & Muscle development

Easter Play Dough Tray! Play dough trays are one of my students’ favorite things. I do a new play dough tray for each theme. This Easter playdough tray has egg cookie cutters, bunny cookie cutters, small plastic eggs, buttons, cut-up pipe cleaners, eyes, and playdough. Students can roll, smash, and squish the play dough to create Easter eggs and peeps. Teachers are smiling, too, because we know they are exercising their fine motor muscles as they play!

Easter Sensory Table! I love how this pastel sensory table turned out. I painted beans with acrylic paint; see how to here. I put matching eggs and mini erasers in the bin for students to sort and play with. I also put an egg carton with numbers so students could count if they wanted.

Egg Shakers! It’s simple to make egg shakers for music and movement or gross motor activities. Fill a plastic egg halfway with beans and tape the egg around the seam using washi tape.  The last set of egg shakers I made lasted over 9 years! Laurie Berkner’s song “I Know a Chicken” is the perfect song to use with egg shakers. Students have to shake the eggs in lots of different ways.

Egg Rolling Art! Have you tried egg-rolling painting? If not, you should! It’s just like marble painting but with eggs. Take a small plastic egg and put two marbles inside. This will give the egg weight so it stays down and rolls. I cut the paper in the shape of an egg. Students place their paper in the box and then drop the eggs in the box. Students shake and tilt the box lid to make the eggs roll around. The eggs paint the paper as they roll.

Egg Printing Art! Another fun art activity is egg printing. Use a few plastic eggs in different sizes and patterned scrapbook paper. Students stamp the egg in the paint and then stamp their paper.

Peep Cutting Craft! Practice fine motor skills and cutting strength with these adorable peeps! Students cut out the peep and then cut strips of paper into pieces and glue them on. They turned out so cute and will make the perfect hallway, bulletin board, or classroom decor item.

Easter Egg Pre-Writing Lines! I drew some eggs. Then, I made some line dice with white stickers and drew different kinds of lines on a foam cube. Students rolled the die and drew the line in the Easter egg. This is a fun activity to help little hands develop fine motor muscles and practice the various types of lines that form letters.

Dramatic Play Idea for easter

Garden Shop Dramatic Play! Turn the dramatic play center into a GARDEN & FLOWER SHOP! We always bring my mom and grandparents flowers or plants on Easter, so why not let students act it out in the Easter-themed dramatic play center? Plus, there are so many ways you can embed math, literacy, science, and STEM into their play. Get all the details to set it up in your room here.

Whew! That was a lot of ideas for an Easter theme in your classroom! I can’t wait to see what you do with your students this year. Want ALL my Easter center printables? Save time and grab my Easter Math and Literacy Centers pack from my TPT store HERE.  Just print and prep.

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