Making Easter Egg Hunts Educational

Using holidays to enrich education can really help to build student interest. Easter Egg hunts are a great way to add the fun into the learning.

What you add into the eggs can help boost learning and boost fun. When teaching to count money you can add small amounts of change to each egg. The children count the money in each egg after the hunt is finished. You can put in coins of the same value, just two different coins or a handful of different coins based on what the children know. You can also just put in a single coin if your working on identifying coin name or value. If the participants are on different levels you can color coordinate the eggs have a different egg color for each child filled with coins at their level.

When working on rhyming words why not put words that rhyme in the eggs when the hunt is over have the children sit together and sort matching rhymes. Even adding and subtracting problems are more fun to solve when they have been stuffed in eggs.

To teach fractions after the children have hunted you can have them each count their eggs and talk about what fraction of the whole group of eggs they each have. It can be taken a step further and fractions can be compared who had the largest fraction of eggs? The smallest? With more advanced students the lesson can be on the possibility of reducing the fraction.

Days of the week or months can be written on slips of paper and put in the eggs. Then when the hunt is over the children can work together to put them in order. The same can be done with numbers or letters.

Sight words can be placed in the eggs then read as the eggs are open. Words to a sentence could be put in eggs then when found the students must put them in logical order. With this you can do multiple sentences based on egg color, each color can hold a different sentence.

The possibilities are endless. Remember, when fun is added to learning the learners will be more engaged in the work. In fact in most cases they won't even know they are learning, they will only know they are having fun.