easter
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Easter Traditions for Preschool
There are certain activities that I always looked forward to doing with my students when certain holidays rolled around. Easter is no exception, and there are three activities that I made sure to include on my lesson plans every single year: Dying Easter Eggs – even when I taught toddlers I loved to share this with my students. I know that it can be a colossal mess, but my classroom has always been the safe place to make messes. At home it’s hard to fully experience this messy activity so I love to give my students this opportunity. Dying eggs the traditional way – vinegar and little dye tablets –…
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Easter Writing Centers
There are so many Easter-themed activities out there, I’m sure that just a quick Pinterest search would fill your lesson plan for the next two weeks. Unfortunately, to find the great ideas you generally have to sift through all of the duds, and the ads. So this week I’m going to do the work for you, I’ll be rounding up all of the best Easter activities so that you’ve got them all in one place! It is so much easier to put together writing center activities when you have a theme that children really want to write about. Holidays are the perfect themes because little ones are already excited about…
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Easter Math Activities
There are so many Easter-themed activities out there, I’m sure that just a quick Pinterest search would fill your lesson plan for the next two weeks. Unfortunately, to find the great ideas you generally have to sift through all of the duds, and the ads. So this week I’m going to do the work for you, I’ll be rounding up all of the best Easter activities so that you’ve got them all in one place! Math was not my strong suit as a child, so as a teacher I made an extra effort to find fun math activities for my students. There are a ton of math activities that you…
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Easter Fine Motor Activities
There are so many Easter-themed activities out there, I’m sure that just a quick Pinterest search would fill your lesson plan for the next two weeks. Unfortunately, to find the great ideas you generally have to sift through all of the duds, and the ads. So this week I’m going to do the work for you, I’ll be rounding up all of the best Easter activities so that you’ve got them all in one place! Today is all about fine motor activities, and Easter lends itself perfectly to fine motor practice, especially when you think about working with tiny little jelly beans and manipulating those wire egg-dippers! Here are some…
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Last Minute Easter Basket Ideas for Preschoolers
If you’re anything like me, you haven’t bought anything to put in those Easter baskets yet. No problem, I’ve got you covered with a huge list of ideas to make your life a little easier. Crayons Markers Colored Pencils Fun Erasers Coloring books Stickers Shape Punches Hair ribbons Sunglasses Sidewalk chalk Bubbles Jump rope Frisbee Slingshot Bouncy balls Toy cars Modeling clay Watercolors Figurines Notebooks Play dough Card games Travel games Flip flops Books A kite Stuffed animals Reusable water bottles Glow necklaces Water balloons Chap-stick Silly putty Pool or bath toys A new beach towel A tote bag Temporary tattoos Legos New Pajamas Nail polish A toothbrush Special snacks…
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DIY Easter Baskets for Preschool
Whether you need containers for an egg hunt, or are just looking for a great fine-motor/art activity to do the week before Easter, DIY Easter baskets are always a great activity for preschoolers. Here are a few ideas from around the web to help you plan! A newspaper basket, instructions at Captain Crafty Paper mache baskets from Vicki Odell Weave fabric strips in plastic baskets. (Idea from Attic Lace) Paper bag baskets, easy instructions at Teaching 2 & 3 Year Olds Paper Plate Baskets from eHow These are all easy, economical ideas that can be finished fairly quickly. I hope that your students love them!
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Preschool Printables for Easter
Can you believe that it’s almost Easter? I know it’s early this year, but it makes it feel like spring is flying by! I have a ton of great Easter activities to share with you. These would be perfect for the last couple of days before Easter at school, or for the kiddos at your family celebration to do. One of my all-time favorite printables is Fill the Easter Basket. It includes 4 Easter basket mats, each of which has it’s own list of items for children to put in the basket. Children have to look at the pictures in the list, find the objects in a group of Easter-related…
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Friday Freebie – Peep Pops
Happy Friday! I know that some of you are starting your spring breaks this week, I get next Friday off, so for me I’ve got one more short week and I’m ready to celebrate spring! These free tags, from Creating and Teaching, are for super easy “Peep Pops” all you have to do is put a Peep on a lollipop stick, wrap it in plastic wrap, and add the tag. This is a cute treat that I promise anyone can handle, and it will still look creative and DIY. Share these with your students or the kids at your family’s Easter gathering!
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Easter Leftovers
I hope you had a wonderful Easter! I had a great time relaxing with my family, the highlight of my weekend was our amazing weather, I spent much of Sunday soaking up some sunshine on my parents back porch and it was perfect! I don’t know about you, but I have a ton of leftovers, and i’m not talking about ham, mostly, I mean jelly beans. Thank goodness I love them, but that usually means I end up eating the entire bag by myself. My solution to this is to take them to school. My kiddos did a lot of jellybean math last week – patterning, counting, tallying, graphing, but…
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Friday Freebies
Today is an extra special Friday because I am enjoying a VERY RARE day off! I have vowed to do nothing work or school related today, and am instead spending my day working on crafts projects and getting my house ready for spring (and sleeping in)! Today’s Friday Freebie is one that my students absolutely loved this past week. This one comes from Klever Kiddos, it is a snap cube activity (who doesn’t have snap cubes?!) that encourages children to follow directions and problem solve, and then throws in some math facts too. Students have to build Easter-related items out of snap cubes, following the included picture plans, and then…
