Easter (Preschool)

 It is so much fun to look forward to holidays.  Being able to talk and read about them with the kids builds the anticipation.  We believe in Easter as a religious holiday and celebrate the resurrection of Christ.  We focused on that in our Family Home Evening lesson at the beginning of the week, and talked about it throughout other activities.  However, we still like to have fun with the Easter time traditions and for our school time used Eggs and Bunnies for our learning as we played.

Activities

We used the book by Jan Brett called The Easter Egg to spark some creativity for decorating eggs.

I pulled out various materials and let the kids choose what they wanted to use.

Ethan's is top left, Brielle's is top right

Gavin's is bottom left, Elise's is bottom right.

they definitely show their personalities.  I love it.

We used this idea from No Time for Flashcards to paint with marshmallows

We used eggs for hiding letters and practicing the sounds they make

We had lots of file folder games preschool pack activities.  These are the same as used last year.

Food

Easter Egg Hunt snacks and lunches were a favorite of the week.  I filled the eggs with a variety of fruit, nuts, cereal, crackers, etc.  They were always excited to see what was inside.

My family has a tradition of making bird nests with jellybean eggs at easter.  Instead of the chow mein noodle nest this year we made rice krispy treat nests.  The kids practiced counting the marshmallows as they helped make them. 

Brielle requested a bunny lunch.  Quesadillas tend to be my fall back when I can't figure out how else to make something.

Books 

The kids thought The Easter Bunny's Assistant was hilarious.  The skunk keeps stinking up the room.  It plays into the potty humor that the kids are big into these days.