Easter Art and Easter Activities

Once St. Patrick's Day is over, it's immediately time to start Easter projects! Today for our 3rd grade buddy time, we did crayon resist art. We started our buddy time with a cute book about eggs and then completed our project. 

1. Each student gets a blank egg template 

2. Color firmly with crayon (leave some white space)

3. Watercolor paint over the entire egg

4. Dry & cut 

They turned out so pretty! I want to hang them up so badly, but the kids really want to take them home!

Adding with jellybeans- It was so hard for them to not eat them until we finished!

Uppercase/Lowercase letter egg matching challenge- This was simple, I used a sharpie to write the letters on the eggs and then used clear nail polish to seal the marker. 

Addition eggs- I wrote numbers with sharpies on the eggs and sealed them with clear nail polish. I wanted the tops and bottoms to be different colors so the kids could differentiate between adding two separate numbers. The wrote the numbers on the squares and drew the dots on the eggs. I was worried it might be a tich too difficult for them and I learned quickly that it was pretty easy, because they had fun and totally understood the concept. 

Easter bunny addition project- oh my goodness they loved this project. I gave them a page of eggs and told them to color them two different colors and that they could choose any two numbers for their bunny. George chose 3 and 3 make

6!

Fingerpainting Easter baskets- I gave each student a basket template, paint, and told them to use their fingers to make eggs! We did this project with our 3rd grade buddies. 

Dying Easter eggs- I was scared to tackle dying Easter eggs with 23 kindergartners all by myself, but it was a breeze. The hardest part was setting it all up. I had half the kids complete an Easter themed coloring packet on one side of the room

And had the other half of the kids dye eggs on the other side. We swapped after about 20 minutes or so. I got so many egg donations that each student got to dye 4 eggs each! After the eggs dried, we put them in the cutest Easter bunny bags with grass inside (that I bought at the Dollar Store). Some of my previous kiddos, now 2nd graders, came in during their recess time to help clean up tables! So sweet!