Easter

On Thursdays we have a learning group with some other friends. I was hosting this week and I decided to do an Easter theme. We've also been trying to focus on a different letter each week, but we've already done E. I was already planning on teaching the real Easter story, so it didn't take long to realize that R would be the perfect letter to focus on this week. R is for Resurrection!

Here are the activities I did and the order they fit together in to lead to one another.

Review-Letter E
E is for Easter
Easter Egg Hunt with Puzzle-
March 2013 Friend Magazine Print out the Picturing Easter picture on page 24 and cut into puzzle pieces. If you do not want to use the lines they provide in the magazine, if you download the pdf, and then copy the picture into word or something it doesn't copy the lines. Put the pieces in the eggs. After the hunt have the children put together the picture and discuss what it is depicting. You can either do one puzzle per child, or have them solve the puzzle together. If you opt to do one puzzle/kid make sure that you separate the puzzles according to each color of eggs. So cut one picture and put all the pieces into green eggs, cut another one and put them all into pink eggs, etc.
Make Resurrection Rolls- I actually chickened out of doing this with all the kids (because my kitchen is a MESS!!) but I had done it with my boys earlier in the week anyways so I'll include it now. Here is a link to the instructions.
Play Easter Bingo-

Click for Free Printable featuring 6 different bingo cards and complete key of pictures used! Cut out each image in the key, fold and place in a hat/bowl/container. Give each child a bingo card and some jelly beans or other markers. As each picture is chosen, explain what it represents and let the children cover their spot a bean. When a child fills the whole board, they yell BINGO and eat all of their jelly beans.




Resurrection starts with R

Find the Letter R worksheet-

Click for Free Printable







Build a Rabbit Game

Click for Free Printable of instructions. You will need a die (aka-singular dice), pom poms (for tail), pipe cleaner or string (for whiskers), googly-eyes, glue, and construction paper or foam. The children take turns rolling the die, counting the dots and then adding to their rabbit according to the instructions. If they roll a duplicate you can choose to make mutant rabbits, skip a turn, or roll again.





(Dino informed me the pom poms were not tails, but rather knees and his rabbit needed two.)