What Easter activities does your preschooler enjoy – Easter Eggs, Easter Hunts, Easter crafts, family holidays? Here you’ll find Easter activity ideas as well as speech and language goals linked to Easter activities for kids.
Easter activities pair well with learning new sounds, words and phrases in an exciting and fun way. Many Easter activities for kids include hiding, movement and an element of surprise.
Follow your child’s lead by watching what they’re interested in. Wait and listen. These actions help your child explore the interaction with you. They also help them engage with language that is meaningful for them.
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5 Easter Activity Ideas
Incorporating Easter activities in speech therapy sessions is a lot of fun! Here are some Easter activity ideas with a speech and language focus that you can try at home.
1 – Easter Egg Hunt
A wonderful childhood memory of mine is going on an Easter egg hunt around the garden each year. My siblings and I would search high and low for Easter eggs before they all melted in the Australian sun!
Easter egg hunts are great Easter activities for kids who like to move, wriggle and jump. This creates many opportunities for modelling action words, fun phrases, and location words. It’s also an activity that the whole family can join in with.
Here are some speech and language ideas below:
Here are some extra ideas to include in your Easter egg hunts!
Sing a song: To the ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ tune.
“We‘re going on an Easter Hunt,
We’re going to find some easter eggs
This is fun! Look…
[place – e.g. “grass”] … [describing words + place – “long wavy grass”]
I can’t see eggs above it, I can’t see eggs under it, we look through it
Looking, looking … ah ha
An egg!”
Easter Egg Baskets
An Easter Egg Hunt wouldn’t be one without an Easter egg basket! Here are some different options that you can find on Amazon. Putting Easter eggs in the basket creates many opportunities to model the preposition word ‘in’.
2 – Easter Wind-Up & Pull-Back Toys
I often use wind-up and pull-back toys in speech therapy sessions. They are great for gaining your preschooler’s attention as they create anticipation and have a cause-and-effect element.
You can get a wide range of these toys including Easter-themed ones! Making them a great addition to the list of Easter activities for kids.
Please check the labels on the manufacturers as these toys can have small parts and may not suitable for toddlers.
Wind-up and pull-back toys can create opportunities to model speech and language areas like –
3 – Easter Eggs
What’s Easter without some form of Easter eggs? Especially chocolate ones!
Plastic Easter Eggs
Plastic Easter eggs can be filled with a variety of different things. It could be small toys, chocolates, your little one’s interests, or something else. Just like opening a gift, these Easter eggs can create anticipation and surprise, which can catch your little one’s attention. They can also be reused year after year with different surprises. You could model language around:
- Surprise and shared enjoyment (e.g., “wow” “it’s a…” “my favourite” “something’s hiding”)
- Wants and needs (e.g., “I want it” “more” “finished” “don’t want” “open”)
- Commenting (e.g., “I got it” “I found it” “it’s mine”)
- Asking for information (e.g., “where is it?” “what’s inside?” “it’s mine?”)
Wooden Easter Eggs & Easter Egg Crafts
There are many different arts and crafts Easter activity ideas, like:
- Colouring in Easter eggs or Easter bunny printable templates
- Painting Wooden Easter eggs
- Sticking glitter and stickers on Wooden Easter eggs
- Making your own Easter egg baskets
- Creating Easter hats
You can include action words like ‘paint’ ‘colour’ ‘glue’ ‘sprinkle glitter’ ‘stick’ ‘cut’ when you’re making Easter crafts.
4 – Jumping Jack
Jumping Jack by Goliath Games is a game I bring out in speech therapy sessions with preschoolers throughout the year!
It creates opportunities to model:
- Location words (e.g., in, on, down, up, out)
- Action words (e.g., push, pull, jump, want, eat, give, watch, pop, turn)
- Speech sounds (e.g., /k/ for ‘carrot’; /n/ at the end of words like ‘in’ ‘on’; /s-blends/ like ‘spin’)
5. Creating Easter Eggs with Playdough
If your preschooler enjoys playing with playdough, grab some Easter-shaped cutters. Create an Easter garden full of bunnies, chicks, Easter eggs, and Spring flowers.
Playdough is often used in speech therapy sessions. It creates opportunities to model a variety of words, phrases, and language structures. Find examples of language models in this related activity post: Linking Language to Playdough
This post was about Easter activities for kids. It linked them with speech and language areas. Which Easter activity ideas are you going to try during the holidays?
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