Ideas and resources
If you are looking for an easy Easter game that you can easily make, check out this printable Don’t Eat the Peep game create by Mique from Thirty Handmade Days. This is a silly Easter game that young kids especially will get a kick out of. The rules of the game are simple and it is fast paced and even funny. Best of all, kids get to eat the candies, pretzels, or whatever you decide to use for the game pieces.
Print out and make your own Don’t Eat the Peep Easter Game.
Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.
First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?
Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.
Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.
Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.
Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.
Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.
Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!
You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.
Feeling particularly dense about the directions: one kid leaves the room, everyone else puts candy on the board, the kids comes in and eats one piece of candy at a time while everyone yells, “Don’t eat the peep”? What step am I missing?
I understand your confusion… Let me try explaining it in a bit more detail
Place small candy on each Peep. One person is chosen to be it and leaves the room and the others all decide which Peep is the one that can’t be eaten… When the person who is it returns, they eat the candy off of one Peep at a time until they touch the candy on the Peep that everyone selected while they were out of the room. Once they touch that candy, everyone yells “Don’t Eat the Peep” and that person’s turn is over. Choose someone else to be it and continue this until everyone gets a turn.
Hope this helps!