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Contact_FullName: Donna
Contact_Email: boyer@cooketech.net
date:: 3-26-03
Area: Easter
Idea:
To focus on following directions, have an Easter basket full of different kinds of plastic eggs: shimmery, pastel, spotted, bright, gold, silver and of different sizes. This will also help little ones learn how to comprehend and use descriptive words. Give each child an egg or you could have them find the eggs during an egg hunt. When each child has an egg, orally present directions such as everyone with a big egg, hop three times. You may want to present a mini-lesson on all of the descriptive words before you start the directions. As a reward for each correctly followed direction, each child may receive a jelly belly or whatever you'd like to give.
To work on description skills, ask each child what kind of egg they have. If they don't answer, ask them yes/no questions; such as, Is it bright and big?
Contact_FullName: Lisa
Contact_Email: preklml@aol.com
date:: 01/08/02
Area: Egg - Games
Idea:
Recognizing names - write each student's name on a plastic Easter egg (have more than one egg for each child). Hide the eggs outside, have your students find the eggs, read the name and give the egg to the correct person! Don't forget to write the teacher's name on a few eggs!
- Contact_FullName:
- Vicki
- Contact_Email:
- Boatride16@hotmail.com
4-24-00
This activity can be played at circle time. Buy those Easter color plastic eggs. Hide items around the room like tiny blocks or stamps inside them. Have each child take a turn shaking it and then ask them what they think is inside. Then when each child is done taking their turn show them what is inside.. Children love this game. It teaches them to take turns and it also gets them thinking.
- Contact_FullName:
- Hannah
- Contact_Email:
- hannah@dockpoint.net
4-18-00
I play Bunny Bunny Rabbit. The way it is played is everyone sits in a circle. Someone stands up and goes around naming you Bunny or rabbit. If you are rabbit, you hop around and sit in your seat. This is played like DUCK DUCK GOOSE, but instead of running, it is hopping.
- Contact_FullName:
- Bridget
- Contact_Email:
4-18-00
Play the game Colored Easter Eggs. Have one child be the fox, the teacher be the grocery attendant, and the other children be the eggs. Each child picks a different colored egg to be and tells the teacher their color, then the fox asks the grocer for a "red" egg. The "red" egg then runs for base. If the color is not represented by a child the grocer replies "Sorry we're all out of "green" eggs today." There are no winners to the game and the children get to practice naming their colors.
- Contact_FullName:
- marcy
- Contact_Email:
- w_marcy@hotmail.com
4-18-00
My class had a lot of fun making egg hunt collages. First, they each drew a basic landscape (grass, sky) on a large sheet of paper. Next, they cut and glued pictures of outdoor objects -- trees, cars, playground equipment, dogs, etc. -- from magazines to complete the scene. Finally, they drew the Easter Bunny with crayons and glued on dyed shell macaroni "eggs" all over the landscape! For some reason, this project really appealed to the four-year-old sense of humor! They really enjoyed getting to be the ones to "hide" the eggs!
- Contact_FullName:
- Kimberly
- Contact_Email:
- kjwise@rapidigm.com
4-18-00
This is for our home but it would work anywhere... we make 3 dozen eggs (we have 3 kids)... we give each kid a specific color to look for.. but none the same...The kids have to only find their color egg but if they see another color egg they can't tell the kid with that color.. this is really nice because it reinforces colors and each child gets the same amount of eggs. Its allot of fun!
- Contact_FullName:
- Jo
- Contact_Email:
- jbrewster@tds.net
4-15-00
For our Preschool Easter Celebration I have put together a fun game called "Wash the Jelly Beans". I took 12" brightly colored balloons and mounted them on foam core board that I had cut slits in and pushed the balloons onto the board. I had marked a firing line with surveyor's tape and had them stand behind it. Then I let the children select a water gun and fire away at the balloons. This was their favorite activity.
- Contact_FullName:
- Terri
- Contact_Email:
- seward@teleline.es
Date: 4-5-00
Draw an Easter egg. Mark the different sections on the egg with decorative lines, in these six sections of the egg put the numbers 1 to 6. Make a copy of the egg for each of the players. Get a dice. The children throw in turn. When they have thrown a number they can put a counter or mark on that section, obviously if they have already thrown the number 2 they do not want it again. The first player to cover their egg with a counter in each section is the winner.
- Contact_FullName:
- Maria
- Contact_Email:
- Mdiana3975@aol.com
Date: 3-30-00
Have an adult place a basket on a tree outside. Give each child a plastic egg. Mark a line for each child to stand (don't make too difficult)....Each child will then try to throw egg into basket.
- Contact_FullName:
- Diane
- Contact_Email:
- bradliv@prodigy.net
Date: 3-1-00
Bowling Contest Host an Egg "Bowling" contest: color some hard boiled eggs and leave one white. roll the white one into the center of a room and take turns to see who can roll their colored egg the closest to the white egg.
Egg Money Hunt: paint hard-boiled eggs so they look like money. Green egg draw Dollar signs $$ all over it, Purple put cents sign all over it and then you could do a "Lucky Egg" for the grand prize. Lucky Egg has to be the biggest egg of all! We always put a $1.00 in it.
- Contact_FullName:
- Diana
- Contact_Email:
- mumchevy2000@aol.com
Date: 2-29-00
Draw or trace a rabbit on poster board and then get the triple size cotton balls and the kids can play pin or tape the tail on the Easter bunny.
- Name:
- Kim
- E-Mail:
- kimmy1728@aol.com
Date: 3-18-99
Easter Bunny, Easter Bunny, Where's Your Egg?
Make a colorful Easter egg shape and covered it with contact paper. Then play "Easter Bunny, Easter Bunny, where's your egg?" It's played like the familiar game "Doggie, Doggie where's your bone?" The group sits in a circle and one child sits in the middle as the "bunny". The bunny hides their eyes as one person is chosen to sit on the egg picture. Then the group yells out "Easter bunny, Easter bunny, where's your egg? Somebody stole it from your home!" The Easter bunny then has three guesses to find the child who is sitting on it. That child then becomes the new bunny in the middle.
Spoon Balance
Have all of the children sit down and make a circle. Choose two children to participate in this activity at a time.
Give the child a spoon with a large marshmallow on it. Tell the children that they need to walk to The designated spot without dropping the marshmallow! This takes great patients!
Bunny Hopping Fun
This game is just like duck, duck goose, with 2 changes. 1. Obviously, the words change to "bunny" as you tap each child, and "hop" when one child is selected. 2. Instead of running around the circle, players hop with their feet together. Have some hopping fun!
Bunny Hop
Have the children line up behind you and hop like bunnies around the playground. Tell the “bunnies” to follow the leader and do as you do!
6-17-98
Name: Merisa
E-Mail: angel2073@yahoo.com
I cut Easter egg shapes out of pink construction paper, and cut 2 smaller egg shape out for every different colored and kinds of wall paper. Have the children turn them over (wall paper side faceing down). This is a memory game. You could do this for every holiday or season.
4-10-98
Name: Janet E-Mail: Crmwell@bright.net
Set up a "Jelly Bean Shop". Put up a store sign and an open/closed sign. You can buy boxes of Jelly Bellies with a variety of flavors separated in the box. The children earn 5 pennies and then are able to go to the Jelly Bean Shop and spend their money on whatever flavors they like. It's surprising on how they spend their money. Some will spend it all right away and others will only spend part of it and come back many times. Some children will also place orders to pick up later. This is a good counting experience and also teaches the value of money. The kids loved it!
4-10-98
Name: Sue E-Mail: clew@texasonline.net
Go to the framing dept. of your local craft store and ask for ova shapes that are cut from mats. Then take markers and color designs on the "Easter" eggs in specific patterns --making pairs for matching. Children pick pairs from a basket and put them on the flannel board (I attach a piece of velcro to the back of each oval). It is a good visual discrimination game.
3-29-98
Name: Amber E-Mail: AmberP813@aol.com
Find an old, rather sizable Easter basket. Also, get some plastic Easter eggs. The children take turns tossing the eggs into the basket! (Add some challenges: the plastic eggs cannot break open, only get the pink ones in the basket, write letters on the eggs--the children can only get the eggs in that have letters in their names.)
3-29-98
Name: Amber E-Mail: AmberP813@aol.com
I used a recycled egg carton and placed twelve plastic Easter eggs (the ones you can open in the middle) in it. I wrote the numbers 1-12 on the holes in the carton and wrote the numbers 1-12 on each egg--both parts. The children not only had to match the eggs to the number in the carton, but they had to put all of the plastic eggs back together first!
3-4-98
Name: Sharon E-Mail: srfsmf@swbell.net
When I have an Easter egg hunt for my class, I ask each child to bring in 6 specific color plastic eggs. Our parents stuff each color with a specified item like pennies, stickers, etc. What makes this a great learning activity as well as non-competitive one, is that when it is time for the hunt, I hold up a large cut out egg shape in the color the children are to hunt for. They still get the excitement of hunting, but without all the grabbing, pushing and shoving. They also get a great color reinforcement activity in the process.
2-23-98
Name: Dolores E-Mail: Rogishdad@aol.com
Make bunny faces for four children out of construction paper. The bunny needs a white head, two white ears with pink inside. two eyes made of any color. The nose is a black circle on a pink oval with black whiskers drawn on.
the mouth is a black smile shape with two large white teeth. I made a bow-tie for each bunny out of yellow. Laminate all pieces. The object of the game is to make a bunny face. Using a die, for each number rolled you get a piece of the bunny's face. For example, roll a one and get a head, roll a two and get an ear, roll a three and get an eye, roll a four and get a nose, roll a five and get a mouth and roll a six and get the tie. Keep rolling until all have created a bunny.
2-19-98
Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16@aol
Last year I divided the children into two groups. We all wore our bunny ears and pretended to be bunnies in our bunny hop relay race. The kids loved it. We had to hop like a bunny and drop a plastic egg into the basket. The first team to get all the eggs in the basket was the winner. They each got a cert. for ice cream at McDonalds. The other team picked a sticker from the sticker box. No one went away sad.
2-19-98
Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16@aol
Hide colored Easter eggs around the room and let the children search for them. This is always a definite do at our Easter parties. Make sure you have enough eggs though so every child will get some. They always enjoy eating them for snack or with lunch on party day.
2-16-98
Name: Annette E-Mail: aksmieja@brainerd.net
I made a colorful easter egg shape and covered it with contact paper. Then we play "Easter Bunny, Easter Bunny, where's your egg?" It's played like the familiar game "Doggie, Doggie where's your bone?"
The group sits in a circle and choose on child to sit in the middle as the "bunny". The bunny hides their eyes as one person is chose to sit on the egg picture. Then the group yells out "Easter bunny, Easter bunny, where's your egg? Somebody stole it from your home!!" The easter bunny then has three guesses to find the child who is sitting on it. That child then becomes the new bunny in the middle. And so on. We've also played it with valentine hearts at valentine parties, shamrocks at St Pat's Day, etc.
Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16aol.com
This is something I do with my K's class. I draw or copy a Easter Picture - Bunny, egg, - and then make a number/letter match. The children have to match the correct letter to the numbers. The message might be: Your a good egg..... Happy Easter...... or whatever you want.
Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16@aol.com
We play pass the Easter egg. The children make a circle and pass the egg to the music. When the music stops the one with the egg is out..
We've also played egg toss with the plastic Easter eggs. The children line up facing each other and then toss the eggs back and forth. The one to still have their egg when the music stops is the winner. (I give all an Easter sticker just for playing the game. The winners also get to pick out of the "prize box". I do this activity with K's.
