Montessori Inspired Easter Shelves Hands-on learning Activities

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Easter-themed learning activity pack for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten children aged 3-5 contains so many fun activities for little hands. The Easter learning folder includes printables to create a wide range of hands-on experiences for young children. Students will explore various math concepts, such as odd and even numbers, work with CVC words, practice simple subtraction and addition operations, explore the Easter Story, work on sequencing skills, improve their fine motor, work on storytelling, and develop logical thinking, and so much more.

Nothing speaks Love like Easter – “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends”. John 15:13

This is the time when I try to show children different sides of love – painful, uncomfortable, and difficult. Love which presents scarifies and gives up comfort. It can be love for mum and dad – listening; love for yourself – making the right healthy choices; love for friends – letting them have a turn first; love of work – seeing that every work is done to the best of our ability; love for others – keeping promises.
The children need to see that rewards for these sacrifices are so sweet and pleasant, they help them gain something that can not be seen but will last forever.

During Group time I usually tell the story of Palm Sunday. Did you know that palm is the most flexible tree? No matter how hard the wind is – it can’t break the palm tree. I always loved this verse from Psalm 92: “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree”. I thought it was quite amazing. We look into the parts of a palm leaf and talk about why people in those days used palm leaves to greet Jesus. I encourage the children to reenact this story and they make a craft with palm leaves.

Later we generally play the “pin donkey’s tail” game which they usually find hilarious.

Here are some Easter Montessori shelf activities to encourage work on developing hand grip, finger strength, concentration, fine motor skills, etc. These are activities on transferring, sorting, matching, coloring and cutting.

different coloured plastic eggs in green and red plastic basket. Aluminium tongs with a white plastic egg plate

Fine motor activity with pegs

Wooden crate lined with yellow fabric with a rectangular and oval shaped boxes filled with pegs with various coloured pegs.

Color matching activity with pegs

wooden basket with yellow egg cut out blue plastic bowl with Easter themed pegs purple egg cut out with peg

Educational activities

Simple subtraction
Simple addition
Picture puzzles
Egg match-up activity
Number puzzles with odd and even numbers
Heavy or Light? activity
Bunny match up
Small, medium, and large soring activity
Shape sorting activity – (4 shapes – pentagon, triangle, circle, and square)
Initial, middle, and final sound activity with CVC words
ABC capital and lowercase letters matching activity
Easter-themed matching activity
Assemble the Easter Basket activity
Parts of a chick – poster, label cards, worksheet for coloring, tracing, and independent writing
Fine motor transferring activity
Carrot life cycle – poster, picture cards, and student worksheet
Easter fine motor tracing, coloring, painting printouts
Resurrection Sunday 3 part cards and student booklet