Welcome To Teaching Heart's
Easter Bunny Patch!
Thanks for hopping on over.
I hope you will find many
Easter Eggs filled with ideas for a bunny or an Easter
Unit. So grab a basket
and start looking below for activity sheets, lessons,
poems, ideas, and much more to make
spring learning fun in your classroom!
Updated - March 2011
Some of my Favorite Bunny
& Easter Activities:
 Bunnyprint
poem
Put the following
poem on the bottom of a piece of white paper:
Have student dip their hands
in fingerpaint and press a handprint on the
paper.
Five little Easter
bunnies sitting in a row;
They are made of my very own fingerprints, you
know.
Five little Easter bunnies are hopping to say,
Love and kisses from your Teaching is a Work of
Heart this happy Easter day.
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 Write
All About It
Zachary woke up
Easter morning to find he had turned into a
_____________.
Dear Easter Bunny, Below you will find directions
to my house...
On Easter morning, Kaitlyn looked into her basket
and discovered.....
The Enormous Egg
The Easter Egg Disaster
The Bunny Who Hated Eggs
The Easter Egg Thief
The Magic Egg
How the Easter Bunny Gets Easter Eggs
Why Easter Eggs Are Colored
If I Were the Easter Bunny
Children write about how they celebrate Easter.
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 Eggshell
Mosaic
A great way to use up
the remains of the Easter eggs. Children will
love breaking up the eggshells. Colored
eggshells construction paper crayon,
pen or marker glue On a piece of
paper have child draw a simple design (e.g.
flower, egg, balloon, bunny). Spread glue in
design area. Sprinkle bits of broken eggshells
onto glue. Allow to dry then hang to enjoy.
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 A
Favorite Math Center
Take several small plastic eggs and place math
questions in the eggs. Place the eggs in a
basket. To complete the center the student takes
an egg from the basket. Write the question on
paper, illustrates the question, and solves the
problem.
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Example
Questions May Be:
Cottontail hopped 8
miles. It is 17 miles to Farmer Joe's farm. How
much farther does Cottontail need to hop to get
to the farm?
Jenn found 7 eggs
in the grass. There are 20 eggs hidden. If Sue
found seven, how many are still hidden?...
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Graphing
Carrots
Graph how you like to eat your carrots. Do you
like them Crunchy, Cooked, or Not At All?
Place a Graphing
Center in Your Classroom... Click
to Learn More!!
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easterpage Easter
,Gail Gibbons &
The Easter
Story, Brian
Wildsmith
Questions
to Ask After and During Reading
*Did the people change their minds about Jesus
from Palm Sunday to Good Friday? In what ways?
*What do you think you would have done if you
were with Jesus during this final week?
*What do you notice about the use of color in
this book?
*Why is a cross so important to many people
today?
*Why do you think we use such things as flowers
and eggs on Easter Sunday?
Write the following
on chart paper
Palm Sunday
Holy Thursday
Good Friday
Easter Sunday
Give your student paper and have them fold it
twice to make 4 boxes.
In each box, have your students make an
illustration for each day and write a sentence or
two to explain the illustration.
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Click
to View Our Sing For Spring Packet!!!
Below you will see some ideas that are found on our CDROM
# 3.
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here to learn more about this product!
Here
is a bunny book project. In this book there are
seven pages
for the student to color. The student must also
write in a color word to match
the picture. The first few pages of the book go
as follows:
Page 1: My Bunny
Book
By:_________________
Chocolate, Chocolate Bunny, what do you see?
(Includes a picture of a bunny for student to
color)
Page 2: I see a
______ egg looking at me.
Red egg, red egg, what do you see?
(includes an Easter Egg for student to color)
Page 3: I see an
________ carrot looking at me.
Orange carrot, orange carrot, what do you see?
(includes a carrot for the student to color)...
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The
CD contains many activity sheets for math with an
Easter Theme. Here is one that is free for you to
print and use! Click the link below to learn
more!
Bunny
Order - student uses bunny manipulatives for this
activity (1-3)
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A
Center Activity Called:
Eggs in the Baskets
Teacher: Here is a
fun math center for you to make. Glue the
baskets to a large piece of poster board.
Then laminate and cut out the eggs. Place
Velcro on the eggs and the inside of the
basket.
Have the students place the eggs in the correct
basket.
Student: Solve the
problems on the eggs. Each solution matches
a number on a basket.
Place the correct egg in the basket.
Complete the center sheet when all the eggs are
in the basket.
NOTE: On the CD you
will find all the materials you need to create
this center. A center sheet is also included.
Since centers are
independent activities in my classroom, I always
have a center sheet to match the activities I
give. When the student turns in the
center sheet, I can quickly see that they
completed the center and how they are doing with
the concept. Then I can help if needed or assume
that the student is ready to move on.
Picture Coming
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Following
Directions Activities:
These include a
Easter Picture and directions. If you teach Pre-K
to first you might want to read the directions to
your class and have them work on the picture step
by step. This is a great listening activity.
Grades 2-3 should have the students read the
steps and complete the pictures!
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STUDENT:
Color the picture and then fill in the blanks to
create a story about your picture.
A story might
read:
This is
_______________________________. She is a
________________ bunny. She loves to
________________________. Her garden is
filled with vegetables. A favorite
vegetable found in her garden is
_____________________. Carrots are good for
her ______________ and help keep her
healthy. I think that carrots are
______________________. My favorite
vegetable is __________________. If I were
a rabbit I would eat ________________________
(There are
a total of 4 writing activities like this found
on the CD)
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Like what you see
above? Click
here to learn more!!!
 Free Resurrection Eggs
Printable
Easter
Season is around the corner with Ash Wednesday
this week!!! To start the season off, I
finally decided to buy Resurrection Eggs for
my family and CCD class. Call me lazy
because you could surely make these
yourself, but I liked having them done for
me instead of searching for the pieces for inside
the eggs.... Plus the resource book
included came in useful. This gave me more
time to create a hands-on printable to share with
you...
I also have a copy of Benjamin's Box: The Story of
the Resurrection Eggs .
The story is great and matches the eggs
perfectly. It is nicely illustrated
and each page tells a story to match the item in
the egg. The kids seem to enjoy the story
and hearing it from the point of view of a little
boy. I highly recommend getting this book
to compliment the eggs.
I hid the eggs around my house and told my kids
to find them but not open them. Once we had
all 12 eggs we took turns reading a page from the
book and opening the egg that went along with the
page.
We then
made our own Resurrection Eggs (based off of the
ideas found on Just Call Me
Jamin's Resurrection Lapbook) at so that we
could retell the stories on our own and recall
how Jesus died for us and then rose from the
dead. I made my own printable to match JCMJ's! The
printable has an egg you open and inside the egg
you glue a part of the story and a symbol from
the egg. My kiddos had fun coloring the
eggs and then gluing the pieces onto the file
folder. I also plan to do this activity is
pieces with my Third Grade CCD (Faith Formation)
class over the next few Sundays.
I made a printable to create this
book.. You can download it free here. It is five
pages. The last page (foldable eggs)
you will need to print three times on colored
card stock. All other pages get
printed once on regular paper. My kids
enjoyed making the books and we will refer to
them through the season.
I also plan to make the books with my Faith
Formation class (CCD). We will do it in
stages over the next few weeks. Last week I
hid two eggs from the Resurrection Eggs around
the room and picked four kids to go on a hunt for
them. Once they found both eggs they got to
open the eggs and tell us what was inside the
egg. We then read the first two stories
from Benjamin's Box: The Story of
the Resurrection Eggs. Each week I
will pick four kids to hunt for the next two
eggs. Slowly we will work on parts of th
Must See
Site!!! For more resources, Catholic Icing is such a great
blog and it has many examples of Resurrection Eggs found around the
web. You also should print out her Lent Calendar for kiddos.
It is great. I have one on my refrigerator
and gave one to each of my CCD kids. Be
sure to look at her Easter cookies too! What a
wonderful happy resource. It surely is
built with love!!!
e book so that they will
each have their own book to share with their
families.
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As a special treat
for you students, share one of these videos with them!
My favorite bunny poems,
songs, and fingerplays
Little
Bunny Foo-Foo
Little Bunny Foo-Foo, (hold up two fingers)
Hopping through the forest, (bounce you hand up
and down)
Picking up the field mice, (make a grabbing
motion)
And bopping them on the head, (hold your fist,
and hit your fist with your palm)
[spoken]Down came the fairy godmother, (symbol
rain coming down)
[spoken]And SHE SAID:
Little Bunny Foo-Foo, (hold up one finger
"no-no" motion)
I don't want to see you, (same as above)
Picking up the field mice, (make a grabbing
motion)
And bopping them on the head, (hold your fist,
and hit your fist with your palm)
[spoken]I'll give you three more chances, and
then I will turn you into a goon!!!
(sing again last
line 2 more chances, then 1 more chance, then
sing the following:)
Little Bunny
Foo-Foo, (hold up two fingers)
Hopping through the forest, (bounce you hand up
and down)
Picking up the field mice, (make a grabbing
motion)
And bopping them on the head, (hold your fist,
and hit your fist with your palm)
[spoken]Down came the fairy godmother, (symbol
rain coming down)
[spoken]And SHE SAID:
Little Bunny Foo-Foo, (hold up one finger
"no-no" motion)
I didn't want to see you, (same as above)
Picking up the field mice, (make a grabbing
motion)
And bopping them on the head, (hold your fist,
and hit your fist with your palm)
[spoken] I gave you three chances, now I will
turn you into a goon!!!
[spoken] And poof, she turned him into a goon
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The
Bunny Fingerplay
Here is a bunny (make a
bunny with hand)
With ears so funny (wiggle ears)
And this is his/her hole in the ground (make a
hole with other hand)
When a noise she hears (listen intently)
She pricks up her ears (straighten ears)
And jumps in her hole in the ground (make bunny
jump into hole)
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Bunny,
Bunny
Bunny, white bunny (Place
pointer fingers beside head)
With ears so tall.
And your two pink eyes
And a mouth so small. (Make O with mouth)
Wiggle goes one ear. (Wiggle one finger)
Wiggle goes the other. (Wiggle other finger)
Hop, hop, hop, hop Home to your mother! (Hop away
in four hops)
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The Bunny
Wiggle
Bunny rabbits wiggle,
So much they make me giggle. *giggle*
They wiggle their ears,
They wiggle their nose,
The tail on their rear,
Wiggles too, I suppose.
And just when I say, "Stop wiggling,
stop!"
They wiggle all over, and take a big hop!
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Oh,
No!
The little bunny is sick,
He thinks he has the flu.
He can't get out of bed,
And there's still so much to do!
He's going to need some helpers,
But he's not sure just who,
Could you help the little bunny?
Would you know what to do... Like...
Doing all your schoolwork,
Wriggling you ears and nose,
Eating all your carrots,
And hopping on your toes?
GUESS WHAT!
The little bunny is better,
He didn't have the flu.
He just ate too many jelly beans,
And chocolate bunnies, too!
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Happy
Easter Songs
A fun CD to play at your Spring Party!
More To Download
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Easter Yummy Tummy
Treats For Kiddos!
Your
Easter Bunny Gummies
I want to share
this activity early. This way you have time
to find these Easter Gummies. I found mine
at Sam's Club. They are made by Betty
Crocker.
The little packs are yummy and cute. See..
I created a sorting
sheet and graph to match the gummy candy.
The sorting is for prek to first grade. The
graph can be done in first through third.
Just a fun Spring Time activity.
You can print these two pages out for your
classroom or kiddos! Click
here to download the word files!
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Isn't
he cute? He is made from a hard boiled egg!!!
I got this recipe from the Pillsbury Classic
Cookbook sent monthly.
Visit www.pillsbury.com
Click
here to see
the full recipe from the April 2005 issue.
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The
Bunny Cake:
An Easter Tradition in My House.
One cake is the
head. The other cake makes the bow and two ears.
Decorate with Vanilla Icing and then top with
white and pink coconut. Green coconut is used for
the background!
Click
here for some
more cute ideas!!
Click
Here to see my
favorite recipe on this page!
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Bunny
Learning then In the Tummy!!!
We love the
Jet-Puffed Mallows by Kraft for Yummies in our
Tummies and for learning fun. The ones above are
the Spring version. They are shaped like bunnies
and come in green, purple, yellow, and pink.
Great for fun sorting and graphing; as well as
eating! I have found them at Target and my
grocery store (Giant Eagle). Sometimes they go
quickly; so, I try to grab them when I first see
them in early March.
I created three
activity sheets to use with these Mallows. My
daughter can complete the sorting sheet pretty
independently and my six year old can do the
sorting and graphing sheet pretty independently.
There is a third sheet for first to second
graders that involves adding up small numbers.
First we color the
bunnies in on the sorting sheet. Next we sort.
After that we count the bunnies & write how
many we have of each color.
Feel free to
download the sheets above off of Teaching
Heart by clicking here!
Visit Ramblings of a
Crazy Woman
We Made It,
Saturday Showcase!!! and Soda Bottle Easter
Basket for some
more fun ideas!!
Teaching Heart has an Index of Spring Fun - Click
to explore!
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My Favorite Easter
and Bunny Books!
My favorite Easter poems,
songs, and fingerplays
Easter
Bunny Chant
Funny little bunny
Sat on a stump
Flicked his floppy little ears
And then he gave a jump!
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Easter
Fingerplay
Five little Easter eggs,
lovely colors wore
Mother ate the blue one, then there were four
Four little Easter eggs, two and two you see
Daddy ate the red one, then there were three
Three little Easter eggs, before I knew
Sister ate the yellow one, then there were two
Two little Easter egg, Oh what fun
Brother ate the purple one, then there was one
One little Easter egg, see me run
I ate the last one, and then there were none
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Some
Things That Easter Brings
Easter duck and Easter chick,
Easter eggs with chocolate thick,
Easter hats for one and all,
Easter bunny makes a call!
Happy Easter always brings
Such a lot of pleasant things!
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Easter
Eggs
tune: Jingle Bells
could be used for flannel board too
Easter eggs,
Easter eggs
Eggs of orange and blue.
Here' are lots of colored eggs
All for me and you.
Chocolate eggs
colored brown,
Jelly beans bright green
Aren't these the most beautiful eggs
That you have ever seen?
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Five
Little Easter Eggs
Five little Easter
eggs lovely colors wore,
(Hold up five
fingers)
Mother ate the blue
one, then there were four.
(Bend down one
finger)
Four little Easter
eggs, two and two you see,
Daddy ate the red
one, then there were three
(Bend down one
finger)
Three little Easter
eggs, before I knew,
Sister ate the
yellow one, then there were two.
(Bend down one
finger)
Two little Easter
eggs, oh, what fun!
Brother ate the
purple one, then there was one.
(Bend down one
finger)
One little Easter
egg, see me run!
I ate the last one,
and then there were none.
(Bend down last
finger)
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Easter Bunny
(Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
Easter Bunny, soft and white
Hopping quickly out of sight,
Thank you for the eggs you bring,
At Eastertime we welcome spring,
Easter Bunny, soft and white,
Hopping quickly out of sight.
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Some Ideas From the
Teaching Heart Mailring Group!
We ask
each child to bring 1 dozen plastic eggs filled
with stickers, candy, little trinkets...we mark
each egg with a number 1-12, then we ask the
parents to hide them in the Kindergarten
playground.
The rules are they need to find 12 eggs with the
sequencing numbers,(don't have to be the ones
they brought) ... if they find for instance 2
numbers 4, they pick one and leave the other for
another kid to find.
The first ones to get their complete set, get a
prize. The other ones get to keep their 12 filled
eggs.
We always have extra ones in case some kids
forget to bring theirs.
The children love it, it reinforces their number
recognition, and best of all, the teacher is free
to sit and rest and enjoy the show!
Bunny
Stamping Game
Write a letter,
number, or site word on each rabbit, and make a
copy for each child. Children will draw a number,
letter, or sight word card from a stack (or roll
a die), find that letter/numeral/word on their
mat, and stamp it out. You can use rubber stamps
or bingo daubers. You could also use stickers.
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Links To Other
Sites With Great Ideas!
Links To Fun
Crafts
Links To Free
Printables
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