ABC and 123: A Learning Collaborative: Easter
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Easter Egg Skill Review Hunts


Katie assembled a skill building egg hunt activity with separate questions appropriate for each of her children's age level.

Childhood 101 shares different suggestions for putting together your Easter egg hunt.
How about a high tech egg hunt using GPS like the one suggested by Discover Magazine?
Preschool Lesson Plans brings the egg hunt inside to reinforce essential early literacy concepts.
Adventures to Inspire put together a math fact egg hunt.

More Than a Maths Teacher has compiled a list of mathematical problems to hide in your Easter eggs.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Easter Themed Learning Centers & Games

Put together a rhyming Easter treasure hunt mission for your little learners using the inspiration from A Lil Bit of This - A Lil Bit of That.


A Mama's Two Cents Worth created a downloadable center egg game appropriate for preschool age children.
A List Maker's Life put together a Build a Bunny game to practice counting and taking turns.
 
This egg hunt skill building activity is appropriate for reviewing any concept in the classroom.  It worked with second grade students, yet was also fun with preschool age children.  Just create appropriate questions for the age you are addressing.
 
The First Grade Sweet Life put together a Sentence Scramble center and shares the printable recording sheets in her post.
 
Explorations in Learning shares the set up for their Easter themed writing workshop station.
 
Teachology has a great link list of suggested Easter themed lessons that would be appropriate for learning centers.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Spring & Easter Crafts

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Classified:Mom celebrates spring with a baby chick craft.

Krafty Kat caught my attention with this adorable egg carton Easter craft tutorial.

Auntie LoLo Crafts put a button collection to good use with this Easter Button Egg


Craftberry Bush made a lovely little spring bird cage.

Sweet and Lovely Crafts created a twist on a traditionally winter themed craft with their Spring Globes.
A List Maker's Life recycled formula cans into Easter Bunny Banks & Baskets and shares the step by steps.
Sippy Cup Central used little hand prints to make Easter lilies.

Mama to 3 Blessings got her little ones busy with paint creating Easter crosses and footprint chicks.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Easter Printables for Parents and Teachers

Are you looking for some fun printable graphics  for decorating your classroom, making Easter gifts, or sending a holiday note?  Here are a few adorable options we've hunted down for you this week.

I Should Be Mopping the Floor has shared a colorful piece of subway art for your printing pleasure, along with a cute Easter garland.

A Mama's Two Cents...is offering sevearl color options in this clever printable.

Poppies at Play designed a egg-celent Easter poster.

Ink Obsession Designs has downloadable chicks and flowers that would make a fun little memory game.

Anders Ruff made sweet, bitty Happy Easter labels for Hershey kisses.

Landee See, Landee Do's subway art features many favorite April words in pastels.

Ladybird's lovely Consider the Lillies printables are free for downloading.

These cheerful Easter Egg Baskets boxes will be easy to put together with the printable from I Still Love You.

Catch My Party provides polka dot pretties for the place settings at your Easter feast.


Making Memories with Your Kids rounded up a list of Easter printables, including this cute Peeps poster from Flamingo Toes.
Itsy Paper Blog has a printable treat topper perfect for packaging Peeps!

Nifty Thrify Things posted Easter graphics that would make sweet notecards.

Thirty Handmade Days created bunny printables to use in wrapping and presenting Easter treats.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Easter Themed Sensory Activities

Education.com explains the importance of sensory tables for preschool aged students and will get you started with the basic ideas for exploration.

Once you are inspired, the thematic possibilities are endless.  Just check out all of these creative bins put together to celebrate spring! Each of the pictures is labeled with credit to the site it came from.









Although this is not a sensory tub, Gummy Lump has a colorful and fun Easter egg sensory craft suggestion.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Activities with Eggs

Shannon submitted the MOST adorable deviled eggs we've ever seen! She says,
"They were very simple--regular boiled eggs, but sliced in half across the middle (instead of lengthwise). We removed the yolks, mashed them, then mixed them with some mayo. We scooped balls with a melon baller (and Mommy rolled a little bit in her hands) and put them back in the hollowed out egg whites. They are decorated with carrot beaks and two brown jimmies for eyes, but we are going to experiment with other eye shapes this week (cucumber peel, nori & raisin are all on the list)."

You will want to click over and read about how she put the together!

Inspiration Surrounds, Creativity Abounds has put together a post full of egg themed learning activities. You will want to check out the egg shell memory and sound eggs.


Brandy from Adventures of a Flake has put together an egg-cellent post full of suggestions. She features an egg experiement, an egg lacing card, egg color and alphabet matching games. Check it out!

Michelle from A Mommy's Adventures has shared an open ended art mosaic project using eggshells.

Pocketful of Posies submitted a great post about E is for Eggs. Her post includes a book suggestion and a fun finger play.

Use eggs to learn about color theory and experience texture using Quirky Momma's suggestion for decorating eggs.
A Mommy's Adventure used the book A Good Egg as a starting point for an egg-citing tin foil egg craft.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Easter Crafts

Mama Jenn and her little ones put together a cute Easter bonnet craft inspired by two Easter books they read.



Learn to make your own little Easter stuffed lambs like the kids at Eager Little Mind.

With your older children you might enjoy making these sewn Ostara Easter Chocolate Bunnies from Playing with Your Food.

A Crafty Escape has put together a cute and easy Easter Egg Suncatcher idea for you to try with your kids.

Adventures of a Flake submitted her ideas for an egg-ceptional Easter banner.

She has also put together a religious Easter craft to remind her children of the reason for the holiday.

These Cracker "Carrot" snacks, courtesy of A Mommy's Adventure, are a great healthy addition to any Easter Celebration!

Katie made a similar carrot snack using cheetos. She also shares pictures of yarn eggs and sponge stamped sugar cookie eggs.

Emily had a lot of fun painting with Peeps for Easter. What a sweet idea!

Teaching Two shares how to make tin foil eggs.

Silly Eagle Books used bottle caps to make an an easy "green" bunny craft!