Easter and Spring Activities

Bunnies in the Grass
Materials: yellow construction paper, green paint and brushes, cotton balls
Students paint long, large strokes of green paint to create "grass". Let dry. Glue on cotton balls and pretend they are the bunnies tails!
 Lynn Cable 
Lebanon, TN

Spring Chick Art
Materials: Small paper plate, brass fastener, 2 yellow cotton balls, paper
Children draw a nest on their paper.  Then, glue on the 2 yellow cotton balls for a chick.  Use a marker to make an eye.  Draw feet and beak.  Cut paper plate in half zig-zag.  Cover chick with plate and attach with fastener to look like an egg cracking.  Decorate the rest of the picture.
Chris Gulotta
Tallahassee, FL

Egg Patterns
Cut out a an egg shape from white paper or have students do it.  It need to be symmetrical..  Fold in half lengthwise (tall and skinny).  Have one student decorate with colorful patterns and designs.  Then, have them trade with another student.  The second student opens the egg and continues the started pattern.
Chris Gulotta
Tallahassee,FL

Somebunny Loves You
Have children cut out a rabbit pattern Add features like face and a cottontail.   Write "Somebunny loves you"  on it and have student give it to their parents.
Chris Gulotta
Tallahassee, FL

Peanut Hunts
I gave up Easter Egg Hunts a few years ago and decided to do Peanut Hunts.  I painted a few prize peanuts for special prizes. Just throw bags of peanuts in shells in the field.  Easy for those tough years when Easter is close to Spring Break and you don't want to deal with the mess.
Chris Gulotta
Tallahassee, FL

Cut the cardboard toilet paper rolls into little stands to dry your eggs after dyeing.
Chris Gulotta
Tallahassee, FL

Bird Activities
I work with a  first grade class. Each year the teacher asks them to count birds with their families, draw pictures of birds they count, and write stories about their experiences. Another bird activity she engages in is Project Feeder Watch. Students hang bird feeders in the schoolyard and keep a scrapbook of all the different birds they see using the feeders. Students also make posters using pictures cut from magazines and newspapers. The students enjoy the activities and can't wait to count birds.
Lois Weber, a retired teacher who works with Linda Daniel's first grade class at Sutherland Elementary
Palm Harbor, Florida

 Easter Egg Surprise
All you do is break a hole into an egg about the size of a nickel and let dry. After dry, paint or color with either crayons or markers. Fill with a little gift or candy and glue tissue paper over the hole. Give it to a friend and let them crack it open for an egg-stremely nice Easter gift!  Just another egg yolk...not to be taken internally! :)
Kimbrena Blair
 Kentucky

Spring Bunny/Duck
Materials: White construction paper, scissors, white cotton balls , yellow cotton balls, crayons & glue
Cut out a pattern of a silhouette bunny out of white construction paper so on one side it looks like a bunny and the other side looks like a duck. Then, color the ears pink for the bunny side. Add eyes and a nose. Put white cotton balls on it. Flip it over. Color the duck's bill orange, add an eye, and put yellow cotton balls on it.
Kim Stairs
Virginia Beach, VA.