Easter Egg Hunt for Literacy

Get ready for an engaging, interactive, and educational Easter Egg Hunt that will have your students excited to learn! This game is perfect for reinforcing key skills for word building, sentence building, or story building while celebrating the holiday in a fun and meaningful way. Read on for directions to an Easter Egg Hunt for Literacy!

Objective:
Children will search for Easter eggs containing letters or words inside and use them to form simple words, sentences, or even stories! Below, you will find fun & educational word games for primary and upper elementary children. Enjoy the Easter Egg Hunt!

Materials:

•Plastic Easter eggs (10 per child)

•Words or letters (included in this resource)

•A basket for collecting eggs

•Optional: Add some of them an Easter sticker or piece of candy.

Primary Grades Instructions:

Prepare the Eggs: Print and cut out the individual letters. Then, place one inside each plastic egg.
Hide the Eggs: Scatter the eggs around a classroom, backyard, or play area.
The Hunt Begins! Let the children search for the eggs and collect them in their baskets.
Build Words: Once they’ve gathered enough eggs, they’ll open them and use the letters inside to form simple words like “bat,” “cat,” “sun,” or even an Easter-themed word like “bunny.” (You can create rules like, you may use your letters twice in one word.)
Extension Activity: For an extra challenge, ask them to form a sentence using one or more of the words they made.

Upper Elementary Instructions:

Prepare the Eggs: Print and cut out the individual Easter-themed words with different parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.). Then, place one inside each plastic egg.
Hide the Eggs: Scatter the eggs around a classroom, backyard, or play area.
The Hunt Begins! Let the children search for the eggs and collect them in their baskets.
Build Sentences: Students use the words to build complete sentences. (They may add words to their sentences and change the tense of the verbs.)
Extension Activity: Challenge them to write a short Easter-themed story. (You can require them to use a set amount of the words they found.)

If you want everything prepped and ready for you, check out Easter Egg Literacy Hunt HERE. You will find all the templates, letters, words, and directions.

It includes Easter theme-related words: 52 nouns, 26 verbs, 26 adjectives, 26 adverbs, 14 prepositions, 12 interjections, and 26 Christian words.

Keep rockin’!