Easter Activities for Year 5 and 6

Easter activities for Years 5 and 6!

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

Can you follow the instructions to create an Easter themed bookmark?

You will need: •Paper •Scissors •Glue •Colouring pens •or pencils

Make your own Easter bunny bookmark!

Video and step by step Instructions here: Create your own bunny bookmark

Watch the story and create a cartoon strip or story board of the events

The Seriously Surprising Story

Watch the story

You will need: •Paper •Scissors •Glue •Colouring pens •or pencils

Ready for an origami gold challenge?

Well, here it is...

Create a bunny box! ?

Learn how to here!

Watch the video Follow the instructions, step by step

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Easter Bingo!

1. Print out Bingo boards on the link below or be creative and draw your own versions.

2. Cut out/draw picture caller cards (they need to match the pictures on the Bingo board).

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

4. Find some counters or make your own from circle of paper or card 5. You’re ready to play Bingo!

Print bingo cards and caller cards

Each player has an Easter bingo board.

Before you start, decide if you are playing for a horizontal row, a vertical row, or for the whole board!

The bingo caller pulls out a card at a time and calls and shows the picture – e.g. “Pink rabbit” If a player has the picture on their card, they can cover it with a counter.

When a player covers all the pictures on their board, they call out, “BINGO!” The first player to do so is the WINNER!

Have an Easter hunt!

Watch the story Write 8 clues foradifferent places around and create cartoon strip your house (see the examples here). or board of and the Have story a clue for the start theevents end.

Hide them and give your family the first clue. They have to solve it and find the next one and so on! You could even leave a treat for them at the end!

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Dissolving jelly beans: 1. Place a different coloured jelly bean in each jar/cup.

2. Pour a different liquid in each jar/cup.

3. Observe the jelly beans in each jar to see what happens as the liquid is added. https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/easter-jelly-beans4. Leave for 1-2 hours.

5. Observe and record changes. experiment/ 6. Can you explain your results?

Check the science behind the experiment here

*Throw the jelly beans and liquids away when you’ve finished

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4 different types of liquid (warm water, cold water, vinegar, v fizzy pop) Jelly beans Small glasses or plastic cups

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You will need: • Eggs • Spoon v • Brush • Stopwatch/phone/timer

The Egg-lympics 1. Event 1: Egg and spoon race 2. Event 2: Catch the egg - use a hardboiled egg. The person who drops and cracks the egg loses.

3. Event 3: Egg bowling – use a hard boiled egg. Set an area on the floor as a target zone. The person to roll their egg and stop it closest to the centre wins.

4. Event 4: Speed bounce/bunny hops – lay out a long stick/brush. See how many times you can jump over it from right to left in 1 minute.

5. Event 5: Egg balance – tilt your head back and carefully place the egg on your forehead. How long can you keep it there before it falls?