Easter games and activities for ESL kids lessons

Teaching Easter in an ESL kids lesson

Happy Easter!

This page has a selection of Easter games and activities that can be used in an ESL Kids classroom. Some have specific teaching functions, others are just fun games (good for parties!). At the end of each game is a Teaching Point (TP) Section.

All games and activities are listed in alphabetical order.

Easter games & activities:

Bunny hopping exercises

Have students hop to your commands (like an Easter Bunny): Hop slowly, hop quickly, big hops, small hops, turn around hops, hop on left / right foot, hop forward / backwards / sideways, close your eyes and hop, flap your arms and hop, etc. This is a great activity to do after making ‘Bunny Ears’ (see links below).
(TP: V: hop, slowly, quickly, big, small, turn around, left, right, backward, forwards, sideways, flap, close. F: giving instructions to play a game using adverbs and prepositions of direction)

Chocolate egg bowling

This is like the game “bowls”: roll a ball across the classroom. Students take turns to roll chocolate eggs to get closest to the ball. The closest is the winner and can win their egg!
(TP: V: roll, closest. F: giving instructions to play a game)

Duck walk race

Have the kids line up at the start line, squat down and grasp their ankles with each hand from behind. On “Go!”, they waddle to a designated finish line. They can’t let go of their ankles or they are disqualified. The first child over the finish line wins a prize. It’s a really funny game that your students will love!
(TP: None)

Easter egg blow

Use real hollow egg shells (before class get some eggs, puncture a hole at both ends and blow out the insides of the egg, then wash out). Use a straw to blow the eggs across the classroom. First person across is the winner!
(TP: None)

Easter egg decoration

Use real egg shells (before class get some eggs, puncture a hole at both ends and blow out the insides of the egg, then wash out). Use [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] felt pens, glue and glitter, stickers and anything else to decorate the eggs. You can use these eggs in the ‘Easter egg blow’ game.
(TP: None)

Easter egg emotions

Use real egg shells (before class get some eggs, puncture a hole at both ends and blow out the insides of the egg, then wash out). Everyone sits down and uses felt pens to draw faces in different emotions (happy, sad, angry, sleepy, etc). Prizes can be given for the best faces!
(TP: V: various emotions vocab. F: using adjectives to describe emotions)

Easter egg faces

Review face vocabulary (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hair, eyebrows, cheeks, chin, etc.). Use real egg shells (before class get some eggs, puncture a hole at both ends and blow out the insides of the egg, then wash out). Do as a listening activity – teacher says, “draw a nose” and children draw a nose, and so on. Also good for adjectives – “Draw a long nose”, “draw big eyes”, etc.
(TP: V: various face vocab. F: giving instructions using face vocabulary)

Easter egg hunt

Hide small chocolate eggs around your classroom / school / the park and send your students off to find them. Teach them expressions like “I’ve found one!”, “Where are the eggs?”, etc.
(TP: V: I’ve found one!, Where are the eggs?)

Fair-for-all Easter egg hunt

This stops some kids getting all the eggs and other getting none. Simply, write each student’s name on some eggs. The students will have to recognize their own names.
(TP: F: recognizing your written name)

Easter egg roll

Students use a chocolate Easter egg (small) and a straw to roll the egg across the classroom. First person across is the winner. The winner can keep their egg!
(TP: None)

Egg & spoon races

It’s up to you whether you use real, uncooked eggs! Teams relay race with eggs on spoons across the classroom.
(TP: None)

Nosey Easter egg roll

Students roll foil covered chocolate eggs across the classroom using only their noses. The first one over the finish line wins – the winner can keep their egg!
(TP: None)

Pin the tail on the bunny

Create the bunny and have blindfolded students pin the cotton ball tail onto the bunny.
(TP: None)

Rabbit masks

All you need is paper plates, pink or black paper (a small quantity for the nose and ears), cardboard and cotton balls or another soft material.

First cut out oval shapes from the cardboard – this will become your bunny’s ears. Next, cut out the nose from the [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] paper. You can also cut triangles of pink paper to make the inside of the bunny’s ear. Cut two holes in the paper plate for eyes.

Then paste on the ears, eyes and nose. Paste cotton balls all over the face to make the bunny look soft. There you have a bunny mask!
(TP: V: nose, ears, eyes)

Easter lesson plan

Free Easter lesson plan

Check out our wonderful Easter lesson plan which is tailor-made to use in your kids ESL classroom. The lesson plan includes downloadable flashcards, worksheets, song and a classroom reader.

Easter song

ESL Kids Easter song to download – We have a wonderful song which you can download and use in your Easter lessons: “The Easter song”.