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Easter Sunday

Eastertime “Making Baskets and Educating with Eggs” Lessons and Teacher Resources

Videos | Lesson Plans | Additional Resources

Introduction:

"Easter is the most important annual religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to Christian scripture, Jesus was resurrected from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. Some Christians celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day or Easter Sunday…. Relatively newer elements such as the Easter Bunny and Easter egg hunts have become part of the holiday’s modern celebrations, and those aspects are often celebrated by many Christians and non-Christians alike…." – Wikipedia

Lesson Plans:

Art:

• Here toddlers make an Easter basket from a juice bottle (P)
• Students create their own cupcake Easter baskets here (P)
• This is an idea for making milk jug Easter baskets (P-1)
• Here’s a fun Easter egg project (P-5)
• This art lesson is for making an Easter basket out of a bleach jug (K-4)
• This lesson involves creating art with Easter egg shells (K-5)
• This clever Easter art idea transforms egg cartons into ready-to-decorate baskets (K-7)
• Here’s another Easter lesson idea, this one involves creating a "stuffed" picture (1-5)
• Here is an Easter lesson on patterns in art and math (1-5)
• Here’s an idea to reuse those plastic Easter eggs as decorations (2-5)

Language Arts:

• This idea helps students learn their letters using plastic Easter eggs! (K)
• 26 letters are found in this egg hunt, but not in alphabetical order (K)
• This idea involves plastic Easter eggs and compound words – need we say more? (K-2)
• "Literature and Patterns" is a reading – writing – drawing lesson about Easter eggs (1)
• This is another compound word Easter egg hunt (1-2)

Math:

• Easter chicks are counted in this preschool lesson (P)
• Here’s an addition and subtraction review lesson called "Easter Egg Math" (P-1)
• "Easter Count" is a lesson idea on division and other arithmetic functions (3)
• This Easter Egg Hunt lesson reviews basic math facts (3-4)
• "Egg Wrap" is a lesson on circumference, measurement, and estimation (3-5)
• After discussing infinity and Fabergé, students decorate paper Easter eggs in this idea demonstrating the "infinite" possibilities of human imagination (3-12)

Music:

• This lesson plan is on Easter rhythms (1-2)
• Students have a "Musical Easter" here by playing notes marked on eggs (1-2)

Science:

• This is an idea for an Easter or spring science sensory table (P/MO)
• Students mix food colors to dye eggs in this lesson appropriate for Easter (K-2)
• In this clever Easter science experiment, students witness absorption, diffusion, and primary color combinations while creating coffee filter Easter eggs (K-4)
• This Easter egg and salt water idea demonstrates how geodes are formed in nature from minerals and evaporation (5-12)

Other:

• This idea is to be used around holidays for teaching ABCs and 123s (P)
• This listening skills lesson uses plastic Easter eggs (MO)
• Find Spring lesson plans on our Seasons page
• If you have any Easter or spring lesson plans to share, please add them to our site!

Videos:

• Here are videos about the history of Easter and Easter eggs
• Kidzui hosts teacher and parent reviewed videos on their Easter and spring channels
• At Activity Village, you’ll "find everything from a rapping Easter bunny to some very useful Easter craft videos"
• This is an interactive video Easter egg hunt
• There is nothing cuter than this baby bunny eating a flower video
• May not be educational, but this short Easter egg domino video is fun to watch
• Young kids will love these "bunny beats" and "chick flicks"
• You’ll find spring videos on our Seasons page

Additional Recommended Resources:

• Spring lessons, videos and additional resource links are located on our Seasons page, as are lessons on tornadoes, thunderstorms and other severe weather that occur in spring
• See our "Arbor Day and "Earth Day" pages for more springtime activities
• Here are interactive "egg-tivities" like decorating and hunting for Easter eggs and playing egg games
• This is an article and links on Easter games you can play outdoors or on a computer
  
• Sweet Easter stories and classic bunny tales can be found at this site
• Find another good collection of fun online Easter games and activities here
• Here are some simple interactive Easter games
• These are Easter Sunday School lessons for children
• Find Easter logic, math, and puzzle worksheets at edHelper.com