Easter Printables
Kids love posting activities! We’ve kept this one totally open ended so that you can decide how best to use it with your child.
An Easter scavenger hunt to do around your house. Fold up the clues and hide them inside a plastic egg (with a chocolate if you like!). Solve each clue to lead you to the next.
Print these eggs, cut them in half and then hide them around the garden or in a sensory tray. Match the upper case letters to the lowercase letters.
Make your own mini bunny baskets. These are easy to put together and perfect for collecting a few chocolate eggs or flowers from the garden.
To go with your bunny baskets we also have these cute bunny and chick headbands to wear whilst doing your Easter Egg hunt.
Print these placemats and have them for colouring in whilst sat at the table for Easter lunch!
More Easter scissor skills activities to go alongside our scissor skill Easter eggs.
Kids just love cutting things up! These Easter eggs are great for practising scissor skills. If you’re child is having trouble using a pair of scissors draw a smiley face on their thumb. They should always be able to see the smiley face whilst cutting.
Gather leaves and flowers on a walk and make a nature crown for the bunny. We've included five options where you just need to add the crown yourself.
A collection of printable signs to give clues and help direct your little one to find easter eggs
PlayTRAY Printables
A collection of colourful flash cards of repeating patterns made out of Duplo blocks. Perfect for enhancing your Duplo play.
In this activity they can practice their scooping and pouring skills to feed the hungry birds! Cut out the printable birds and attach them to a similar sized container with tape (we used jam-jars). Then place them in a tray with some bird feed that they can use to feed the birds.
To make ice boats freeze water in a muffin tray, cover in cling-film and create a slit in each one to slide a popsicle stick in. The cling-film holds the popsicle stick in place whilst the water freezes.
Whilst the water is freezing cut out and laminate the sails. Use a craft knife to cut two slits- one at the top and one at the bottom. Also prepare a tray of water.
Once frozen remove the cling-film from the muffin tray, slip on the sails and remove the boats out from the muffin tray. You are now ready to play!
Cut out these animals and hide them in a tray of rice or other sensory material. Use the reference sheet to identify the living things and tick them off when you find them. You could also hide these around the garden or home.
Cut out the fish (there are three versions: numbered, dots and blank). Add paperclips to the ends of the fish. Now make a fishing rod using a piece of dowel, a stick or even a wooden spoon. Tie a piece of string to it and attach a magnet to the end of the string to catch the fish!
Pre-writing shapes and lines are an important pre-requisite to letter formation and useful to practice in playful, non-pressured ways.
There are many different mediums for mark making other than pen and paper that kids will enjoy. Some ideas include dying a tray of salt with a drop food colouring, using coloured rice or oats, or squirting some hair gel into a Ziploc bag before sealing.
Create your own small world vegetable patch! We made ours in some chocolate cloud dough. Alternatives could be coffee beans or black beans, coco-pops or you could even use real soil! Encourage your child to create their own vegetable patch or set up the vegetable signs and use it as a sorting activity.
You can use these simple images of a turtle and a flamingo for various animal and ocean-themed creative learning activities. We used fallen petals from the garden to create feathers on the flamingo printable.
Here’s a simple ‘print and go’ art activity. Create a blossom tree using different shades of pink paint. We used a dish brush to create a blossom effect. A broccoli floret also works well for this or you could use q-tips.
Giving children early experiences of forming pre-writing shapes will help them later on when they are ready to tackle letter and number formation. These flashcards can be used to support children as they practice these shapes and lines.
Take advantage of our flower outlines to create blooming blossoms in water. We coloured them in with felt tip pens and folded in the petals. We then placed them in our PlayTRAY lid in water and the petals gently unfolded as they soak up the water.
Painting with something other than a paintbrush is good fun and fork painting makes great looking fur! This bear craft is perfect for toddlers/preschoolers. Let the paint dry and then add features with card/paper or other craft materials.
Here's a simple fine motor and colour matching activity. Use tweezers to transfer the pom-poms to the spaces on the rainbow. You could add velcro dots to help the pom-poms stay in place if you like. If you don’t have tweezers, small kitchen tongs could be used also.
This is such a fun activity for kids! If you don't have the PlayTRAY, any smooth surface will work to skate your penguins. To make the skating penguins snap some lolly/ popsicle sticks in half, stick them to the base of a mini muffin tin with a bit of blue-tack and fill up the holes with water. You might want to add a tiny bit of food colouring too if you like.
Put them in the freezer overnight. Once they are frozen and you are ready to play, pop them out of the tin. You should now be able to peel the blue tack from the bottom so that they glide smoothly across your tray. Then stick the penguins to the lolly/ popsicle stick with a piece of tape.
We've teamed up with Twinkl to create fun and engaging inserts for the PlayTRAY. There are plenty to choose from including small world inserts, colour wheels, mark making inserts and more, and they are FREE.