Easter Activities for Year 3 and 4

Easter activities for Years 3 and 4

Once Upon a Picture‌

You will need: Paper A pencil

1. Where do you think this is?

2. What is the rabbit waiting for?

3. How is the rabbit feeling?

4. Will someone get here soon?

1. Where have they been?

5. How long have they been gone for?

Write a story inspired by this picture. Use the questions above to help you.

Easter Chick Bookmark Origami is the art of folding paper. It’s great fun!

Can you follow these instructions to make your own bookmark?

Step by step origami

You will need: Paper Scissors Glue Colouring pens or pencils

Egg-cellent multiplication 1. First, draw an outline of an Easter egg.

2. Then, design your egg so that it has spots. Each egg should only have between 1 and 9 spots.

3. Cut out your Easter Eggs.

4. Ask someone at home to create two numbers. One of these numbers should always have only one digit.

5. Use the column method to multiply these numbers.

You will need: Paper Scissors Colouring pens or pencils A pencil

The egg drop challenge!

You can choose from: Kitchen roll holders A box (cereal, shoe) Lolly sticks String Elastic bands Straws Sponge Balloon Sellotape Card board/paper

1. Choose 5 of the materials and combine them to make an egg holder.

2. Place the egg into the holder.

3. Raise the holder into the air and drop.

4. If the egg survives and doesn’t smash – you win!

Decorate an Egg! You will need: An egg Water and pan (for the egg) Paint Coloured Paper Glue

Decorating your own Easter egg is lots of fun!

You could either decorate an egg (which you would need to ask an ADULT to hard boil for you) Once the egg has cooled down, you can paint it in any design that you like.

Create a nest for an Easter chick 1. Make your Easter chick from paper, from card or decorate a pebble

2. Research what the birds nests look like in the wild and see if you can recreate this structure.

3. Begin by going outside to collect twigs, leaves and any other materials that you can find that will help to create the perfect nest.

You will need: Paper, card or a pebble Colouring pens Twigs (or any material you can find) Glue Scissors

Learn how to draw an Easter bunny

Step by step instructions here: How to draw a cute Easter bun ny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adp2Df37ZCU

You will need: Paper A pencil Colouring pens

Easter Bingo!

Cards to print Then click download the Easter bingo set.

1. Print out bingo boards and picture cards from the link above or draw your own version.

2. Cut out/draw the picture caller cards.

3. Find a bag or a hat to put the caller cards in.

4. Find some counters or make your own.

5. You’re ready to play Bingo!

How to play: 1. Allow each person to choose their card and counters.

2. The caller will choose a caller card and announce the item on the card.

3. If they have it on their board, the player covers it with a counter.

4. Once a player has 4 squares covered in a row (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally), they call out “BINGO!” and win the game!

Easter Word Search!

You will need: Paper A pencil

Use this word search to help you create your own Easter themed one.

How many Easter words can you think of?

Top tip! Put your Easter words in first and then fill in the empty spaces with random letters.

Create your own Easter bunny!

Follow the instructions on the video in the link below to create your very own Easter bunny.

How to create your very own bunny

You will need: A toilet roll tube Coloured paper Colouring pens or pencils Scissors Glue