EASTER BUNDLE OF ACTIVITIES: Party, Escape Rooms, Math Challenges, STEM Challenge, Word searches and more!

We have put together all of our Easter products into one bundle to provide your students with 12 exciting, adventurous and informative activities in the build up to Easter.

The products include:

• HOST YOUR OWN EASTER PARTY: 12 traditions from 12 different countries, learn about them all whilst taking part in craft activities, tasting sessions and an Easter Egg hunt!
• Escape Room: Easter is Cancelled - 9 Challenges (Instructions and Answer Key given)
• Escape Room: Where is my Easter Egg? - 9 Challenges (Instructions and Answer Key given)
• Coordinate Art: Plot the coordinates in the four quadrants to reveal four secret Easter themed images (Instructions and Answer Key given)
• Stations of the Cross Class Pack: "I have... Who has..." Card Game, Posters, Class based activity (Answer Key included)
• Three Word Searches (Biblical and Contemporary themed) - Answers keys included
• STEM: Protect the Egg Challenge

We think that this provides everything you and your pupils need for hours of fun and to celebrate Easter.

You can view full details of these products below:

Host your own Easter Party:

Host your own Easter Party with your students where they can learn all about where our Easter traditions come from whilst at the same time, creating, tasting, playing and smelling Easter in their own classrooms!

We have devised the product to use with our own students in order to build on their excitement for this very exciting season of bunnies, eggs, hunts and parades. We have used a number of well-known traditions to create a party pack where your students can learn where they came from, how they developed over years and to also have a go at creating, playing, tasting and smelling Easter. The aim was to ensure that our students knew why we have and do the things we do at Easter time, often bringing the learning back to the variations of how cultures believe different things surrounding this period of religious significance, as well as spring time crop and animal growth.

The product includes the following resources:

• Full instructions and resource list to support the activities
• PowerPoint introduction to the activity for the students
• World chart for each student to have to record where in the world they have visited
• 12 Fact Cards - sharing 12 traditions, their countries of origin and how the tradition developed and a suggested activity which links with the tradition.

The resource can be used in one of two ways with your students:

• As a whole class looking at the 12 traditions one at a time or,
• As 12 stations set up and the students move around at their own speed and using their own choices of where they want to go and what they want to learn about (this is the far more exciting choice for students to engage in!)

The 12 traditions and their countries of origin are:

• Easter Egg Roll (Washington DC USA)
• Fly a Kite (Bermuda)
• Make a fire (Finland)
• Costumes (Sweden)
• Omelette making (France)
• Easter Bonnet making (Australia)
• Easter Bunny (Germany)
• Colorful Carpets (Guatemala)
• Fireworks (Italy)
• Hot Cross Buns (Greece)
• Easter Egg Hunt (United Kingdom)
• Stations of the Cross (Jerusalem)

As the students move to each activity and learn about the origins of the tradition using the information cards, a linked activity has been created to encourage them to experience Easter traditions. Timings are up to the teacher, and can last an afternoon easily. Students, upon completion, mark their travels on a world map which each student has at the start of the activity - this is included within the resources of the product, and reminds them of where they have been.

Escape Room: Easter is Cancelled:

The curriculum content of this Escape Room is linked to:

• Easter
• Problem Solving
• Math (Multiplication, Time, Sequencing)
• Word Skills (Language Problem solving)
• Geography (World Locations)

The 9 activities are based on the following outcomes:

• Wakey Wakey Easter Bunny – identifying the ringing alarm clocks
• Find Easter Bunny’s Resources for delivery – Word Search and a secret mode of transport is revealed
• Easter Egg Packaging sorting - 2D and 3D shape sort using shape properties
• Chocolate Ingredient Sort – Anagrams
• Knowledge of rabbits - lifestyles
• 36 Hours – Time related math questions (long multiplication)
• More Food and Drink - Sequencing
• Around the World – Ordering countries and continents to get Santa around the world in the right order
• And finally, one long sleep – True and False statements about rabbits

Escape Room: Where is my Easter Egg?

The curriculum content of this Escape Room is linked to:

• Easter
• Problem Solving
• Green Plants and their Life Cycles and Growing Conditions

The 9 activities are based on the following outcomes:

• Math Problem Solving – finding 5 ways to make 12 using limited digits and operations
• Solving a secret message using a Coded Alphabet
• Anagrams
• Word Search
• Linking Easter Bunnies to a delivery address – follow the trail
• Parts of a plant
• Lifecycle of a plant
• Conditions required for plants to grow
• Visual Math Problem Solving (algebra)

Easter Word Searches:

We devised three word searches, each with a very different focus and its' own answer key. The first was linked to everything we know and love about Easter today - fun for the children as it is everything they associate with the build up to Easter.

However, we also wanted the children to understand the Easter story, so therefore we took key words from the Easter story (New Testament) and placed those into a second word search. The children can then talk about the vocabulary, the meaning behind certain words (palm leaves etc) and the people specific to the story (Jesus, Judas, Pontius, Mary etc). This supported their knowledge of the story and allowed them to relate to what we celebrate today and what we are thinking about when we search for eggs, eat hot cross buns and receive palm crosses during Easter services.

The third word search provides key language, days and terms which the children need to know in order to understand the Easter calendar. Foe example, the period of Lent, Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, Mardi Gras, Good Friday. Key words further allow the children to understand why they are important to the story of Easter.

Whilst our children enjoy completing word searches, they particularly saw the purpose of completing these three, and understood the difference between each one. They were able to place the vocabulary in their own learning when discussing the Easter story and we found it made the study unit more memorable.

Each word search has its own answer key for ease of assessment, and can be used within a Literacy Center, as a home learning activity, for early finishers, or as an activity within its own right exploring the Easter story.

Easter Coordinate Challenged - 4 Hidden Images to locate and draw:

These four projects are a great review for children to practice their plotting skills of coordinates in all four quadrants. They all have an Easter theme - but can be used any time of the year to review and assess learning in plotting coordinates.

The themes for each of the challenges are:

• Easter Chick
• Easter Cross and Dove of Peace
• Easter Eggs
• Easter Lamb

To use these activities, simply print and go!

The children will require a four quadrant grid (included) and the list of coordinates (included).

Each project has seen the coordinates divided into separate blocks and lines to create the pictures in the final piece. As each of the coordinates are plotted, the images are slowly built up to reveal the four different pictures. The answer keys for each project are also included so that teachers can see at a glance if the work of the children is accurate. With over 460 coordinates to plot over the four projects, this will keep your children busy for a long time!

Once completed, the children can color their images and use as an Easter card.

This activities are great for embedding previous learning, but can also be used as:

• Early morning activities
• Early finishers extension
• Home learning
• Math Center
• Assessment of plotting coordinates in the four quadrants

STEM: The Great Easter Egg Race:

Great for any time of year - but especially Easter. Encourages children to think about how eggs can be protected when packaged, before dropping them to test their own designs. Gooey and great!

When you purchase and download this resource, you will receive an 10 page booklet. It includes all you need to achieve success in teaching your children about packaging using materials and minimal resources.

This project is aimed at developing both skills in STEM learning alongside team work skills, problem solving, cooperation and communication skills, within a meaningful scenario.

The booklet includes:

• Cover Page
• Contents and resources
• Aims of the project
• Lesson Plans for teaching the project and hints as to when to let the children "fail" before intervening with support and "Handy Hints"
• Developing a "Drop Zone" within the classroom!
• Scenario to read to make the learning purposeful (why the children need to protect an egg)
• Research and Planning sheet along with 6 targeted questions to support research and preparation before making
• Handy Hints Sheet 1 (Making strong and rigid support tubes from newspaper)
• Handy Hints Sheet 2 (Making stronger joints using struts)
• Certificate to mark success, the end of the project and celebrating taking part.

The aims of the project have been identified as:

Social skills

• Develop the skills of co-operation
• Improve communication skills
• To support one another to reach a shared goal
• To delegate tasks
• Discuss issues and solve problems as they arise
• Have fun in achieving the outcome and support the development of new friendships

STEM skills

• Research packaging of delicate/precious/expensive items
• Review shapes of packaging and how they have been strengthened, where they have been strengthened and how they are designed to protect
• Use research to influence achievable design
• Use limited resources creatively to reach agreed outcome
• Use class based equipment to complete the project
• Strengthen joints using techniques – provided a sturdy package
• Use measuring skills
• Produce final package, complete with raw egg to be dropped from a height of 3 metres.
• Fair testing

However, these are not exhaustive skills and the project is flexible and open enough for other skills to be developed.

The 7 Lesson Plans are detailed with session numbers, clear purpose to the lesson, detailed activity plans and outcome of the session. The plans clearly tell the teacher when to let the children experiment, when to allow them to fail in order to learn and problem solve, when to use the Handy Hints sheets and when to intervene with further skills teaching to move them onto the next stage of the project.

Resources are limited and inexpensive. To complete the project, each group will need:

1 copy per group of…

• Copies of Package Design Sheet
• Copies of Handy Hints Sheet 1
• Copies of Handy Hints Sheet 2
• 1 piece of rounded dowelling rod (5 mm diameter)
• Newspaper
• Card and tissue paper
• Sticky tape – 1 roll per group
• String – 1 meter per group
• Raw Egg
• General classroom resources: Scissors, measuring stick, pens, glue sticks pencils etc.

Our children enjoyed this project, especially the fact that it used limited resources, as well as recycling resources that would normally be thrown away, making it a very inexpensive project to complete - not to mention to raw egg element.

Thank you for visiting our store and viewing our resources.

Best wishes

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