Easter Themed Learning Activities

Learn how to draw a bunny with this tutorial from Printable Crush. You could do this at home or in a classroom and hang the results as your classroom decor for the spring. There’s one version you can trace and another with step by step instructions for you to draw on your own.

Grab a bunch of fun Easter themed printable activities from Simple Fun for Kids, including a dot marker letter find, matching game, roll and cover, counting cards, color by number and more.

Get Easter-themed bingo cards from Fab Working Mom Life (free with email) or find some others

Play an Easter egg letter matching game with this free printable from Only Passionate Curiosity. This would be a great one to do with plastic eggs, so you can turn it into an egg hunt and then do the letter matching.

Crayons and Cravings has an Easter word search and word scramble you can print and use in the classroom or to entertain kids on Easter. Or grab some Easter-themed coloring pages from Made with Happy.

And because if you know me you know I can’t let a holiday pass without throwing in some STEM activities, check out this post on how to make an Easter egg rocket from Team Cartwright.

If you have little ones you can turn the classic pompom drop into an Easter themed STEM activity with a mildly gross twist kids will love by making a pooping bunny pom pom drop. Get the details from Happy Toddler Playtime.

Need more fun Easter activity ideas? Check out this collection of Easter games the whole family can play, and this great collection of ideas for ways to decorate your Easter eggs, no package of dye from the grocery store required. I also love these sight word eggs made from paint chips. So many fun learning options.

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Bunny Activities for Kids

The celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is important throughout Mexico and other parts of the world. Her feast day is Dec. 12, and the celebrations honoring her appearance to Juan Diego in 1531 begin a few days before that.

Whether you celebrate yourself or just want to share about the celebration at home or in your classroom, Las Mañanitas: The Beautiful Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a good place to start. The book, by Ernesto Joel Vega Rosales and Jeanette Gonzalez Seneviratne, with illustrations by Dana Sanmar, tells the story of a family’s celebration of the feast day in both English and Spanish.

They prepare with a novena, which is nine days of prayers and preparations. The children, Lucia and Pablo, are given special outfits made by their grandmother that look like what Juan Diego might have worn when he saw Our Lady. The book describes the prayers that are made each day, such as a prayer for respect for life, for families and for the indigenous people of the Americas, to name a few.

As told in the book, Juan Diego was a native Mexican born near modern day Mexico City. His given name was Cuaauhtlatoatzin, which means “He who speaks like an eagle.” When he converted to Christianity his name was changed to Juan Diego, and as he walked to church he passed a hill called Tepeyac. One day he heard the birds singing especially beautifully and a voice called him to go to the top of the hill.

There he saw Our Lady of Guadalupe, who asked him to tell the bishop she wanted a chapel built in her name at the foot of the hill. The bishop asked for a sign that Juan Diego really saw her, and later she had him collect flowers that she blessed and take them to the bishop. When Juan Diego dropped the flowers, an image of Our Lady could be seen on his cloak, which is still on display in her basilica to this day.

The feast day is celebrated as mañanitas, which includes singing, indigenous music and dancing, and children presenting flowers to Our Lady. Juan Diego is remembered today as being humble, brave and faithful, and was the first indigenous American made a saint.

The book is colorful and tells the story in a clear way, and it’s fun to have it both in English and Spanish if you teach Spanish or speak Spanish at home or in the classroom. It’s a great way to learn the basics of the celebration and the story of Juan Diego and why he is still remembered today.

About the book: 40 pages, paperback, published 2024 by Loyola Press. Suggested retail price $14.99.

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