It's also a wonderful opportunity to spend more time with the family. What will you be doing this Easter? Camping. Visiting family and friends. Shopping. Playing Sport. Relaxing. Catching up on house work.
No matter what you are doing for Easter though, why not throw in some fun activities for you and the kids to enjoy with an educational twist.
OMG! What? Educational? Boring!
Well it doesn't have to be boring. Learning can be fun. At home and with the family kids can explore new ideas freely, puruse their own personal interests and expand their minds by playing and having a good time.
So we've put together some Easter Activities that you can take with you on your trips or do around home and that have some hidden learning benefits. Don't tell them it's educational and they'll eat it by the box full!
Plastic Easter Eggs
These are a great alternative to chocolate eggs and sugary treats if you're trying to avoid that sort of thing. You can use them to put trinkets and treasures inside but you can also turn them into educational games.
* Fill them with math questions and score participants
* Write out general knowledge quiz questions and have a competition
* Hide clues to a hidden treasure
* Use them for challenges and dares
* Play "Memory" by opening two eggs at a time and scoring pairs
* Hide them around the yard for the Egg Hunt and fill with pieces of a puzzle
Easter Reading
The shops are full of bright and colourful easter books at this time of year. Head down to your store and stock up on books as another alternative to sugary gifts for your own or other children.
There are Easter books for all ages and all interests. This one shelf in a local store of mine has touch & feel books for toddlers, flash cards for early readers, activity and colouring books for middle years, craft and recipe books for older children and regular classics for those of us who just love books like Pooh Bear and Peter Rabbit. Books can be so interactive nowadays and can provide hours of learning disguised as fun.
Get Crafty
* Decorate an Easter Basket and get the kids to help fill it with activities written on pieces of paper to do when things are quiet (save you from their boredom cries)
* Make Easter Cards for close friends and family, decorate them and practice their neatest hand writing in the messages.
* Write poems about Easter together (acrostics are good for spelling - using the letters of a word like Easter, rhymes are also a great way to learn phonics and spelling patterns for similar words).
Activity Sheet
You can also download our Blossom Easter Activity Sheet. Print out copies for the kids and give them something to occupy their time for a while.
What ever you do, we wish you a Happy Easter and hope you and your family have a lovely time together! Happy Learning!
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