Hello, Kids e-link members! Today, I’d like to share with you three Easter activities that have proven to be popular among my students of all ages. It is fun, educational, and most importantly easy for you to prepare for and manage!
☆ Super-Easy Easter Paper Craft
Key Sentences: A (blue triangle), please. Sure. Here you are.
Use the sentences, ‘I want …, please.’ or ‘Can I have …?’ for older children.
Key Vocabulary: color and shape words
Student Ages: 5 to 12
Preparation: an oval shaped white construction paper (7cm x 10cm: one piece per student), small pieces of colored paper in various shapes (about ten per student), glue
In Class:
1. Show the oval shaped construction paper and small pieces of colored paper, and talk about the colors and shapes with your students.
2. Explain to students that they are going to make a paper Easter Egg by decorating the oval shaped construction paper with the colored paper using glue.
3. Hand out one piece of construction paper to each student, and put all the colored paper near you. Students say, ‘A (blue) (triangle), please.’ in turn to get a piece that they want, and glue it onto their ‘egg.’ During the activity, talk to individual students, and elicit the color and shape words from them. Also give them some words to praise their work and effort, e.g. ‘What a beautiful egg you are making!’ ‘How lovely it is!’
4. When students finish their work, do ‘Show and Tell.’
Ex. Hello. My name is (Sho.) This is my Easter Egg. (Pointing at small pieces of paper on the egg) This is a red circle. This is a green square. …. Thank you.
5. Students do ‘Show and Tell’ to their parents as homework. If possible, take a class photo, and give it to your students.
☆ Celebrate Easter with English Land!
An Easter Unit is included in English Land Level 1(Pearson Longman). Teach the lesson that completes with a fun action song, and do the Easter Egg Craftwork suggested in the Teacher’s Book. Preparation is real easy if you use the photocopiable activity sheet included in the Teacher’s Book!
☆ Story-based Activity with Easter’s Egg!
Read Easter Eggs (Addison Wesley Longman, Mice Series, ) in class. Students draw a picture of a baby animal hatching out of an egg on a piece of paper. Hide the pictures at various places in the classroom. Students then do the Easter Baby Hunt. They look for a picture in turn, and when they find a picture, say, 'Look. It is a baby (fish)!'
I hope you all enjoy Easter activities. Happy Easter!
Mari Nakamura has been teaching English and developing teaching materials at her own school for over 15 years. She is the co-author of the Pearson Longman’s English Land.
