Easter Count and Clip Cards for Preschoolers
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I haven’t met any child who doesn’t love Easter. It is so much fun for them to wait for the Easter bunny and then try to find as many eggs as they can. If the eggs have candy or a little surprise inside, it’s even better!
I like to use every opportunity I get to take advantage of children’s enthusiasm and plan educational activities, especially around each holiday. For this occasion, I created these Easter Count and Clip Cards to allow preschoolers to practice their counting skills. This Math printable is so much fun that your preschoolers will happily do it without even knowing that they are learning!
Easter Count and Clip Cards
The best way to help children learn is with hands-on activities, and these FREE Easter Count and Clip Cards will allow your preschoolers to do just that. This printable contains four pages with six cards each, for twelve colorful counting cards.
Since we teachers are always running on a tied budget and like to have resources that last, I strongly suggest printing these cards on cardstock. Then, you just need to cut them out and laminate them. At the end of the month, put them inside a pencil case or a Zip-lock bag for safekeeping. That way, you will have your cards available for several Easter celebrations.
Materials Needed
The materials you need to get this printable ready are just a few, and I’m pretty sure you have most of them already. You need:
How to Use Them
These Easter Count and Clip Cards can be used in many ways, such as small group activities, a Math center option, a take-home game, and a Quiet area option.
To take advantage of this resource, give a child the cards and clothespins. The child needs to count the objects on each card and place the clothespin on top of the correct number. Letting your little ones use the clothespins will also improve their fine motor skills.
This activity is excellent for strengthening the children’s number recognition, addition, concentration, counting sets, and one-to-one correspondence skills.
Easter Count and Clip Activity Variations
Do you know how I always say to give your kids choices and switch things around? You can do that with these cards, too. These are some examples of how you can take advantage of these cards and make variations on the activity:
- Add manipulatives such as mini erasers, buttons, pom poms, or any other materials, and have the children count the objects on each card and match the correct number with the same amount of objects.
- Have the children trace or copy the numbers.
- You can put numbers at the end of each clothespin and have them match the clothespin with the correct number on each card.
- Have them count the objects on each card and match that number with the correct magnetic plastic number instead of using a clothespin.
Moving With Counting Activities
Since every child loves to be outside, use this opportunity to get them moving with an Easter Counting Activity. You can hide plastic eggs in the playground or yard and make a game of finding the eggs and counting who finds the most.
The next activity I suggest is to write numbers outside the eggs with a Sharpie and place the numbered eggs in a basket. Then have the children line up and select an egg. Make it a game by having each child read the number on the selected egg and hop as many times as the number in the egg.
Another game you can have them do is an egg race. The way you do this is by dividing the children into two groups. Then one member of each group will take a turn to form a running pair from point A to point B with a plastic egg on a spoon without dropping it. When all the children finish running with their eggs, each group has to count how many eggs made it to the finish line. The group that has more eggs wins.
Enhance Their Learning by Reading Books
You can never read too many books to your preschoolers. Books open a magical world of learning and imagination development for them. You can teach literacy, math, science, and social studies using books, just to name some domains. Children love to hear stories so much that you must take advantage of the fantastic resource multiple times a day, every day. These are some book suggestions I have with Easter in mind:
The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story by Mike Berenstain. Young readers will understand the real meaning behind Easter with this book.
A Very Happy Easter by Tim Thornborough. This book is a great way to make storytime interactive and explain Easter to young children in a way that connects emotionally and builds empathy.
5-Minute Easter Stories by Disney Books. This book brings stories about spring-time fun or Easter Egg hunts. Every story is a delight, perfect before bedtime, storytime, or anytime!
The Story of the Easter Bunny by Katherine Tegen. With gorgeous and peaceful art, this fresh, innovative story describes how one little rabbit became a legend.
Turkey’s Eggcellent Easter by Wendi Silvano. This cute book talks about a turkey trying to win the eggstra-special Easter egg hunt! A fun book that will encourage your children’s imagination.
Good News! It’s Easter! By Glenys Nellist. The Easter season is an exciting time of growth and reflection as both nature and our human hearts anticipate the hope of new beginnings. Through playful illustrations in nature, this author introduces children to the gift of salvation.
It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny by Marilyn Sadler. This book encourages children to read all on their own, using simple words and illustrations, perfect for practicing readers ages 3-7, and lucky parents too!
Pete the Cat: Five Little Bunnies by James Dean. Sing along with Pete the Cat in his fun adaptation of “Five Little Monkeys”. Fans of Pete the Cat will love rocking out to this classic tune with a groovy Easter twist in this hardcover picture book.
Pin It For Later
If you are in a rush and don’t have time to read the post and download the printable, I will invite you to pin it to your Math or Easter board on Pinterest. That way you will have it available for later.
I hope these Easter Count and Clip Cards will help you with your Easter lesson planning and entertain your kiddos, making your job a little easier during this Easter month. Don’t forget to get your printable! You just have to click on the bottom below to download it and start using it.
By the way, since St. Patrick’s Day is also coming, take a look at the FREE activities I created for that theme. You can find all of them at the end of this post.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
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