These Easter activity ideas are the perfect addition to your spring lesson plans. With themes of bunnies, eggs, chicks, and treats, elementary students will love these activities and projects. Check out all of the spring activity ideas below!
20+ Easter Activity Ideas
1. Easter Acrostic Poem Activities
These Easter Acrostic Poem Activities include five unique acrostic poem templates. Each printable worksheet was designed to spark creativity, reinforce writing skills, improve vocabulary, and give students meaningful ways to engage with this fun seasonal theme. Learn more below!
2. Easter Bingo Activities
These Easter Bingo Activities are great last minute activities in 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade or 5th grade classrooms the Friday before the holiday. Use the Easter activities as coloring pages for a calming activity and then play the game. Learn more below!
3. Easter Bookmarks
These printable Easter Bookmarks pair perfectly with other Easter activities. Students will enjoy these Easter coloring activities that spark creativity while giving them a purposeful finished product to use during independent reading. Learn more below!
4. Easter Word Search
This Easter Word Search Activity is a fun way for students to celebrate Easter while reinforcing spelling, vocabulary, reading, visual scanning, problem solving, and critical thinking skills. This activity features a themed word search with words related to Easter and spring. Learn more below!
5. Easter Directed Drawing Activities
These Easter Directed Drawing Activities are a fun and engaging way for elementary students to practice a variety of important skills: writing, vocabulary, focus, fine motor, social-emotional, and more. Both teachers and students love them! Learn more below!
6. Easter Chat Craft Write Project
Get egg-cited for Easter with this Easter Chat Craft Write Project, designed to spark creativity, conversation, and imagination in your elementary classroom! With easy-to-follow instructions and ready-to-print templates, it’s the perfect way to make Easter both fun and educational in your elementary classroom!
7. Peep Activities
Are you looking for fun and engaging activities for the days leading up to Easter? These Peep Activities engage students in a fun seasonal topic, while covering important literacy and math concepts and skills. The resources range from a graphing activity (where students survey their classmates and graph who likes Peeps) to a descriptive writing activity (where students use their senses to describe peeps and then write about them). Learn more about these fun and engaging Peep activities for elementary students below!
8. Easter Bunny’s Assistant Application Project
This Easter Bunny’s Assistant Application Project is a fun and imaginative teaching resource that can be used with or without the book, The Easter Bunny’s Assistant by Jan Thomas. This activity is a fun and meaningful way to practice opinion and descriptive writing while building connections to this popular story. Learn more about this Easter Bunny’s Assistant Application activity below!
9. If I Were the Easter Bunny Project
Tap into students’ excitement about Easter and the spring season with this If I Were the Easter Bunny Project. This low-prep, high-engagement activity combines narrative writing and a craft project to create student work you can proudly display on your classroom bulletin board.
10. Adopt a Peep Writing Project
Are you looking for a fun Easter or spring activity to use with your elementary students? This teaching resource invites students to “adopt” a marshmallow Peep and take part in a series of imaginative and educational activities centered around caring for their new friend. This activity is perfect for class parties, writing centers, fast finisher tasks, and more. The best part is that it sparks students creativity, while helping to strengthen their writing skills. Learn more about the Adopt a Peep Writing Project below!
11. Easter Activity Packet
Celebrate the spring season with this Easter Activity Packet! This packet includes a directed drawing, crossword puzzle, writing activities, and an Easter word search. Perfect for centers, early finishers, or homework, it adds festive fun to your lessons.
12. Easter Book Activities
These Easter Book Activities include 5 book companions: How to Catch the Easter Bunny by Adam Wallace, Turkey’s Eggcellent Easter by Wendi Silvano, The Easter Bunny’s Assistant by Jan Thomas, The Great Eggscape by Jory John, and The Easter Egg by Jan Brett. Here’s your chance to get Easter reading comprehension activities as well as writing prompts, vocabulary, grammar lessons and more at a discounted price, while saving yourself time and increasing student engagement.
13. Easter Would You Rather Activities
Are you looking for engaging Easter activities for April that spark conversation and boost writing skills? These Easter Would You Rather Activities are the perfect way to get your students thinking, talking, and writing—with zero groans when it’s time to pick up a pencil!
14. Easter Bunny in Disguise Project
Bring a little extra springtime fun to your classroom this March or April with the Easter Bunny in Disguise Project! This fun and engaging writing and craft activity is perfect for celebrating Easter or the season of spring with your elementary students. Students will disguise their Easter Bunny and work through a scaffolded writing process to create either a persuasive or descriptive piece. This project is great for 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students. Even your most reluctant writers will enjoy this Easter project!
15. Easter Bunny House for Sale Project
This Easter Bunny House for Sale Project is a great way to engage your elementary students and get them excited about writing. It offers a fun, engaging, and creative way to teach descriptive writing and adjectives to your students. Even your most reluctant writers will enjoy describing and creating an Easter Bunny house! Learn more below!
16. How to Catch the Easter Bunny Project
Celebrate Easter with this fun and engaging How to Catch the Easter Bunny Project! This creative writing project ignites students’ imaginations and gets them excited about writing. Learn more about this Easter writing project below!
17. Easter Reading Comprehension Graphic Organizers
These Easter Reading Comprehension Graphic Organizers provide engaging, meaningful practice to greatly improve your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students’ reading and writing skills. Each of the reading graphic organizer activities included in this set can be used over and over and with ANY Easter book you choose.
18. Easter Color by Code Activity
This Easter Color by Code Activity is an engaging April worksheet for having some fun while reviewing grammar. Learn more below!
19. Easter Non-Fiction Unit
This Easter Non-Fiction Unit will help you meet your students needs, teach important non-fiction reading skills, and increase student engagement during your literacy time. Your students will not only learn important literacy skills, but will also learn about rabbits.
20. Disguise an Egg Project
This Disguise an Egg Project invites elementary students to transform a simple egg into something entirely unexpected and then write about it! This is such a fun way to capture the excitement of Easter and funnel it to a productive writing activity. Learn more about the printable Easter egg craft and writing activity below!
21. Jelly Bean Math Activities
These Jelly Bean Math Activities are perfect for 1st grade, 2nd grade and 3rd grade students. Students practice counting, graphing, comparing, estimating, sorting, and other math skills using guided worksheets and jelly bean manipulatives. It’s such a great hands-on way to practice these skills! Whether you’re planning a spring celebration, prepping your math centers, or just looking to make data and graphing more exciting, this print-and-go pack has everything you need! Learn more below!
22. You’ve Been Egged Printables
These You’ve Been Egged Printables are the perfect way to spread kindness, laughter, and appreciation among teachers and school staff. Whether you’re organizing a staff egg hunt or simply want to surprise coworkers with cheerful notes and treats, this set makes it quick and meaningful.
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