Teaching Ideas for Easter

If you’re planning your Easter activities, explore this enormous collection of teaching ideas.

Add your own ideas and suggestions to the comments below. We would love to hear what you are planning!

English:

• Download our Easter Pack for plenty of resources and activities.
• Write a story with an Easter theme, such as the Easter Bunny or an Easter Egg hunt.
• Write a poem with an Easter theme. You could try using the structure from Easter Eggs by Joanne Limburg, or use our Shape Poem Template.
• Create a storyboard of the Easter story.
• Try this Easter-themed drama activity, which encourages children to use their creativity.
• Reading and discussing stories set at Easter, such as The Rhyming Rabbit by Julia Donaldson, or a retelling of the bible story, such as Diary of a Disciple by Gemma Willis.
• Write an email exchange between a child and the Easter Bunny.
• Create an Easter word search or crossword puzzle.
• Research and write a report about an aspect of Easter, for example, how its date is calculated or how it is celebrated around the world.
• Use our Easter Fact cards for reading activities.
• Our Easter Bunny and Easter Cross Writing Templates are perfect for displaying writing.
• Sequence the events of the Easter story.

Maths:

• Play this Easter-themed version of Battleships.
• Visit Transum’s Easter-themed activity page for some great investigations.
• Make Easter eggs of different sizes using playdough, salt dough or clay. Order them according to size. Decorate them with different repeating patterns.
• This Easter Egg Pattern Challenge encourages children to think about patterns and colours.
• Make your own Easter-based tessellation. This idea uses bunnies; could you use a different shape?
• Visit this page on Maths Drills for lots of Easter maths activities.
• Use egg boxes and pretend eggs (or counters) to demonstrate multiplication using arrays.
• Try this puzzling egg question from NRICH, or this tangram activity.
• Can you create symmetrical patterns on these eggs?

Science:

• Investigate the buoyancy of eggs.
• Download our Life Cycles Pack, which includes resources to help your children learn about the life cycle of a chicken.
• Try this investigation to find out how different liquids affect eggshells.
• Use chromatography to create Easter Egg patterns.
• Try the egg drop experiment.
• Explore states of matter using chocolate. What happens to chocolate when we warm it? What about when we cool it? Download our Chocolate Pack for more chocolate resources.
• Create a fact file about an animal associated with Easter, such as chickens or lambs.

Computing:

• Design Easter greeting cards using graphic design software
• Use Scratch to create an Easter-themed game.
• Use presentation software to retell the Easter story.
• Try these duck-themed online safety lessons.
• Programme a robot, such as a Beebot or Roamer, to find hidden eggs.
• Create an Easter maze in Minecraft
• Use a spreadsheet to plan and budget for an Easter Event.

Design Technology:

• Construct Easter baskets from recycled materials.
• Design and create wearable Easter bonnets.
• Sew fabric Easter eggs.
• Craft Easter-themed puppets for a puppet show.
• Practise Cutting Skills with this ready-made sheet.
• Design and make pop-up Easter cards.
• Create an Easter garden in a box
• Cook an Easter treat such as Easter biscuits or Easter nests.
• Design packaging for a new Easter egg. Think about who might buy it. What kind of design would they be likely to buy?

Art:

• Paint some eggs.
• Make some Easter-themed masks.
• Making Easter-themed suncatchers
• Use clay, salt dough or playdough to make Easter decorations
• Design and print Easter wrapping paper.
• Illustrate the Easter story.
• Look at an artwork with an Easter theme, such as The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci. What techniques has the artist used? How does the artwork make them feel?

Music:

• Learn and sing some Easter songs.
• Listen to some classical Easter music, such as Handel’s Messiah.

• Try some of the music activities on this page.

Geography:

• Explore Easter traditions in different countries and mark them on a world map.
• Hide some Easter eggs and make a map to show their location.
• Locate Easter Island on Google Maps or in an atlas. How far away from you is it? What is it like there?

History:

• Learn about the history of Easter eggs.
• Find out about Easter Island and how it got its name.
• Discover how Easter was celebrated during various historical periods. This page is a good introduction to how it has been celebrated in England.

Physical Education:

• Hold an ‘Easter Games’ event. Include activities like Easter egg relay races, Bunny hop sack races, Egg and spoon races, and an Easter obstacle course
• Create a dance routine to a piece of Easter music, such as Good Friday from Parsifal, by Wagner.
• Create an Easter Treasure Hunt.

Religious Education:

• Listen to the Easter story and discuss what happens in it.
• Make a poster showing how Easter is celebrated in different parts of the world.
• Learn about Passover and its connection to Easter.
• This assembly activity explores some of the symbols used at Easter and their meanings.
• Find out more about Easter with our fact cards, and use them to create an Easter quiz.
• Our Easter Inspiration Posters are fantastic discussion starters.

• Talk about family Easter traditions for those children who celebrate Easter.
• Visit our Easter Event Page for more information about Easter.

Languages:

• Learn how to say “Happy Easter” in a foreign language.
• Create Easter cards in different languages.

PSHE:

• Have a discussion about the values of giving and sharing at Easter.
• Discuss the idea of new beginnings at Easter. What signs of new beginnings do we see during spring?
• Role-play a scenario based on Easter. For example, how would you feel if you were left out of an Easter activity?