Easter Eggs
Tune: "Jingle Bells"

Easter eggs,
Easter eggs,
Eggs of orange and blue.
Here are lots of colored eggs,
All for me and you.
Chocolate eggs,
colored brown,
Jelly beans bright green.
Aren't these the most beautiful eggs
That you have ever seen?

Did You Ever See A Bunny?
Tune: "Did You Ever See A Lassie?"

Did you ever see
a bunny, a bunny, a bunny.
Did you ever see
a bunny that hops so slow?
He hops, and hops, and hops, and hops.
Did you ever see
a bunny that hops so slow ?

Additional Verses:

That hops so fast
That hops backwards
That hops on one foot

Little Rabbit

One little rabbit
(Hold up one finger)
Underneath a tree.
(Hold arms up like tree branches)
One little rabbit
As "hoppy" as can be.
(Hop)

Two long ears.
(Hold hands at back of head)
Two big back feet.
(Raise and touch feet one at a time)
One wiggly nose.
(Wiggle nose)
And whiskers so neat.
(Stroke fingers along cheeks)

Two front paws.
(hold hands under chin, fingertips down)
Two eyes that shine.
(Point to eyes)
One furry body.
(Hug body)
And a fluffy tail behind.
(Wiggle bottom!)

My Bunny Hops All Through the Garden
Tune:  "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean"

My bunny hops all through the garden.
My bunny hops all through the yard.
I like to play tag with my bunny,
But trying to catch him is hard.

Come back, come back,
Oh, come back, my bunny to me, to me.
Come back, come back,
Oh, come back, my bunny to me.

My bunny is so soft and spunky.
My bunny is a friend to me.
My bunny is such fun to play with.
Come join us an you, to, will see.

Come back, come back,
Oh, come back, my bunny to me, to me.
Come back, come back,
Oh, come back, my bunny to me.
 

I'm A Little Bunny
Tune:  "I'm a Little Teapot"

I'm a little bunny, soft and sweet.
Here are my ears and here are my feet.
When I'm in the garden, I look for treats.
And nibble on all I like to eat.

Jelly-Bean Stew

Jelly-bean stew,
Jelly-bean stew,
Red and yellow, and purple, too!
Orange and pink,
And black and green,
It's the prettiest stew I've ever seen!

Home-School Connection Egg Writing Activity

Send each child home with a plastic egg.  Have the children fill the egg with something.  Send a piece of paper home for the child to write three clues about what is inside the egg.  Bring them back to school.  Have each child take a turn to pass their egg around, read the clues and guess what is inside.

Egg Matching

Photocopy a simple picture of an egg onto cardstock several times.
Here are several ideas you can use the eggs for:

Name/Picture Match: 
Take a photograph of each student and glue onto the top half of the egg.  Write the child's name on the bottom half.  Laminate and cut in half.  Place in a center for a name matching game.

Letter Match:
Write the uppercase letters on the top halves of the eggs and the lowercase on the bottom half.  Cut and laminate.  Place in a center for a letter matching game.

Sight Word Matching:
Write the same sight word on the top and bottom halves of an egg cut out.  Laminate and cut.  Mix up the pieces and have the children read and match the sight words.

Rhyming Match:
Find a collection of clip art rhyming word pairs (just photocopy from a teacher's magazine like The Teacher's Helper)  Glue one of the pictures on the top half of an egg and its rhyme on the bottom half.  Laminate and cut using different patterns (straight, zig-zag, curvy)  Mix them up and have the children match the rhymes.

Interactive Writing

I found a little egg one day and out hatched a _______.

Sight Word Eggs

Write sight words on small pieces of paper and put each one inside of a different plastic egg.  Place all of the eggs in a basket.  Use these eggs when you have a few minutes to spare between transitions.  Choose a child to pick an egg out of the basket and read it and also find it on the word wall.

Plastic Egg Letter Match

To create this game use 26 plastic eggs.  Place uppercase letters on the top halves of the eggs and lowercase on the bottom.  Open all the eggs and place in a basket.  Have the children put the eggs back together by matching the letters.

Egg Sort

Gather a collection of all kinds of plastic eggs.  Have the children sort them by size, shape, color etc.  I place a variety of baskets in the center too so the children can place each group in a basket (and they don't have to worry about rolling eggs!)

Spill the Beans

Use jelly beans for simple addition problems.
Have a small basket filled with two colors of jelly beans in the math center.
(For example, pink and green) 
Have each child take a small scoop of jelly beans
(I use the small half of a plastic egg as the scoop!)
Then, pour the jelly beans onto a small working area.
(I use an Easter placemat.)
Then, the child sorts the two colors, counts them up, and writes a number sentence on a piece of paper.
(or on an small Easter Magnadoodle that I found at Target!)

After each child is done I let them eat their jelly beans
or take them home in a Ziploc snack bag.
Each day I place two new colors of jelly beans into the basket.

Jelly Bean Taste Test Graph

Have the children taste one of each flavor of a package of jelly beans.
Have the children write their names on jelly bean cut-outs and color it the color of their favorite, and place on a class graph.

Jelly Bean Estimation

Place a jelly bean filled jar in the classroom and have children guess the amount of jelly beans inside.  After counting them together allow the children to enjoy the yummy treat!

Plastic Egg Addition Center

Use a supply of plastic eggs to make this center game.
Use a permanent marker to write vertical addition problems
on the top half of the egg.  Then write the sum on the
bottom half.  Separate the eggs and place them in basket. 
Set the basket in your math center.  Have the children read the problem,
find the matching answer and assemble the two halves together.

Jelly Bean Patterns

Draw (or use jelly bean stickers) to create patterns with jelly beans on a sentence strip.  Have the children use real jelly beans to complete the pattern.

Adorable Little Baskets

Have the children save their milk cartons from lunch or snacktime.  Clean out and dry thoroughly.  Cover the sides with pastel colored construction paper and have the kids decorate with foam Easter shapes.  Use a hole puncher to make holes on opposite sides and run a pipe cleaner through them for a handles.  Add Easter grass and goodies.

Magical Eggs!

Have children trace and cut out an egg shape on white construction paper.
Have the children use white crayons to color a design on the egg.
Use water color paints to paint over the entire egg.
The designs appear like magic!

Home-School Connection Egg Project

Send each child home with a large tagboard egg cutout.
Have the children decorate the egg with family members.  Encourage each child to bring the decorated egg back to school to display in the classroom.

"Hand"some Chick

Have the children trace an egg shape.  Then trace each child's hands (both of them) onto yellow paper.   Have the children cut out the egg and handprints.  Have them glue one hand on each side of the egg to make the wings for the chick.
Add wiggly eyes and an orange triangle beak.

Tissue Paper Eggs

Cut pastel colored tissue paper into small squares.  Have the children trace an egg shape onto construction paper and cut it out.  Then, I cut out the middle of the egg to make a "window".  Set aside.  Give each child a piece of clear egg shaped Contact paper sticky side up.  Have them place the tissue paper onto the Contact paper until it is completely covered.  Then, I place the Contact paper onto the egg cut out and trim as needed.  Hang in the window.

Chicken, Chicken, Where's Your Egg?

This game is played like Doggy, Doggy, Where's Your Bone? 
Select one child to be "it".  Have the child say the name of an animal that lays eggs.  Then have the child sit in the middle of the circle and close his / her eyes.  While his eyes are covered quietly give another child a plastic egg to hide behind his back. 

Then chant:
(Chicken, chicken), do not rest, an egg is missing from your nest!
Have the (chicken) guess who has the egg by asking a specific child
"Are you oviparous?"

If the child does not have the egg he replies "I am not". 
If the child does have the egg he replies "Yes, I am!" and hands the egg to the (chicken).
Then that child goes in the middle.
 Continue until all children have ad a chance to be an
oviparous animal in search of his egg.

Bunny Hopping

(This is great for those "rainy indoor recess spring days"!)
Play a bunny song (or any favorite children's CD) and have the children hop like bunnies.  When you stop the music have the children "rest".  T
hen when you start the music again they start hopping and the game continues.

The Bunny Hop

See how far your kiddos can hop!  Place a piece of masking tape on the floor. 
Let each child take a turn to see how far they can hop. 
Record each child's hop and discuss the results!

And More Bunny Hops!

Cut 12 eggs out of colored construction paper. 
Number each egg cutout with a different number from 1-12. 
Laminate for durability. 
Here are some things you can do with the eggs:

*  Have the children work together to place the eggs in numerical order.
*  Have a child roll two dice.  Count the amount and stand
on the matching numeral.
*  Do some simple addition.  Have a child roll one die and stand on the egg
with that numeral (2).  Then have a friend roll the die again (3).
The child hops that many times.  Then create a simple
number sentence 2 + 3 =5