Homeschool Preschool - Easter

 Books

Building CVC Words

I hid three letters inside each egg. She opened them one at a time, and had to figure out which word (from the pictures) she could build!

After sounding them out, she read each word and looked at their letters to determine which ones rhymed! Multiple activities in one!

Invisible Numbers + Number Recognition

Sweet E used watercolors to paint an egg (on which I had written a large number with white crayon). Then she read the number and wrote it on her white board. 

One-to-One Correspondence

For this simple activity, Sweet E popped open the eggs, counted the pom poms, and drew a line to the corresponding number that matches the color of the egg they were found in.

Stickers + Bunny Shapes

We did this activity last year, but it was so simple and fun, we did it again. I drew several shapes, and added bunny ears and eyes on each. Then Sweet E stuck on some foam shape stickers where they belonged. She loved this. Here she is laughing because when she placed that star it looked like a mouth!

Without any prompting from me, she decided to do the stickers in number order with one triangle, two circles, etc.

Coloring Page

Roll an Easter Egg

I had seen this idea on Pinterest and decided to make my own version using an egg template and some photo cubes. Sweet E rolled the dice, then drew the pattern shown using the color shown.

She loved this so much, she did it a second time!

And a third!

So fun! And by doing it on a dry erase pocket, she was able to return to this activity again on other days. And she did!

Painting

Egg template free from First Palette. As a family, we did several of these and hung them on the wall along the stairway.

Feed the Bunny Letter Sounds

This is a great activity we did last year too, but is still a big hit with Sweet E. The free bunny printable comes from Let's Play Learn Grow. But I used the free carrots from Teachers Pay Teachers. I made a little vegetable patch out of dried black beans and a piece of tupperware. For the box with a hole in it, I just reused our mailbox from a previous activity. I had made it for our Community Helpers Theme, but it's getting a ton of use!

Sweet E picked a carrot, read the letter, said the sound it makes, and fed it to the bunny, whom I voiced of course. She loves this!

She came back to this activity on other days too!

Egg Ten Frames + Scavenger Hunt

Free printable ten frames came from Teachers Pay Teachers. I taped these up around the main level of our house, and she went in search of them.

She'd count up the eggs, and then write it on this handy number tracing page I found for free at Teachers Pay Teachers. Love that dry erase pocket!

All finished!

Symmetry

We made symmetrical Easter eggs! I drew the top half of each, and invited her to draw the bottom half symmetrically. She quickly caught on!

She even wanted more, so I quickly made up a couple more on a dry erase board. She loved this drawing activity!

Easter Activities!

We were able to do a few Easter activities over the last couple of weeks, despite our schedules being turned upside down by the covid-19 pandemic. The big kids are home from school, and have assignments to do here and there. So I wanted to try to keep Sweet E's tot school going too!

Keep scrolling to see what we did, or click on the links below to revisit similar themes from previous years:

Easter - 2014

E is for Egg - 2015

Easter - 2015

Easter Creative Table - 2017

Books

No library visits this week, as everything is closed, but here are some Easter and bunny books in our own collection. The "Duck and Goose" book is one of her favorites year-round! And we love the "Follow the Path" series. Each page has a path for little fingers to trace, making it such a fun and interactive book.

Dot Markers

We decided quarantine was an ideal time for potty training! So these next couple activities have no in-progress pictures, as Sweet E wasn't fully dressed lol. But here are some cute dot marker pages we did. The printables come from The Resourceful Mama.

Egg Scavenger Hunt + Alphabet Matching

Similarly, I have no process pictures. But I hid magnetic letters inside 12 Easter eggs, and placed them around the house for Sweet E to find. She loved doing this, and actually did it several more times throughout these two Easter weeks. When she found all 12 we brought them back to her table to crack them open, and then identify and match the letters. This was a nice review!

Playdough

We made a new batch of homemade playdough, and combined it with some of our Easter cookie cutters, tools and colorful store-bought playdough.

We made bunnies and eggs to stay in theme. But she also enjoyed rolling snakes and cutting them into pieces. And of course making "noodles" with her extruder tool.

  

Pattern Block Puzzle

We brought out the old pattern block puzzles that Honey Pot and Little M&M used to play with. She just loved them! We started out with the bunny puzzle, and she completed the whole thing!

And potty training was a success! After 2 days of training, she began wearing underwear and was accident-free. If we accomplish nothing else productive during quarantine, I'll be satisfied that at least we've done this lol.

Painting Eggs

This was a fun craft for all three kids (and me)! I printed several egg templates from First Palette and provided the kids with six pretty spring colors of paint.

Sweet E did a great job, and continued on to do a few eggs.

Later Little M&M joined, and he completed I think four of them!

And finally, Honey Pot joined us and completed two more!

 

When they had dried, we cut them out and taped them to the windows alongside our front door. They looked great!

Cut and Paste

Next I printed an activity from Planes and Balloons, to help Sweet E work on her gluing and pattern-matching.

She loves glue!

Pom Pom Transfer

Next Sweet E enjoyed some fine motor practice, transferring pom poms with a small pair of tongs.

Super simple, but she did this a couple times.

Sound-Matching Game

I did this activity in previous years, and it was always a lot of fun! First I filled some Easter eggs with various materials I had around the house that would all sound different. Two eggs per sound!

Then Sweet E had to pick them up and shake them! (With a younger child, or a toddler who still puts things in their mouths, definitely tape up the eggs first.)

She had fun shaking them all to try to find a match! I found it easiest to say for example, after she picked one up, "That one sounds like a bell. Can you find the other egg that sounds like a bell?" And we were able to get through all six pairs this way.

Pattern Matching

This is another activity I've borrowed from our previous themes. I drew a picture of mismatched eggs, and Sweet E needed to put the eggs back together in that way.

Kids have a lot of fun popping these eggs open and closed. So this occupied her for quite a while!

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