Easter Worksheets

Worksheets are activity pages designed for children that allow school and Sunday school teachers to tie various holiday themes into their lesson plans. Easter worksheets allow teachers to incorporate secular ideas like the Easter Bunny, Easter eggs and Easter baskets, or religious ideas like Jesus' resurrection, into their Spring lessons. Easter worksheets are available online and many are free to download and print out.

Easter worksheets can also be useful for school teachers or for those who home school their children. They help the kids learn about the holiday while having fun at the same time, and allow teachers to tie in the Easter holiday to their traditional curriculum.

This Mahalo page collects links to websites offering free Easter worksheets for public use, and will provide you with some inspirations for possibly creating your own educational and fun Easter worksheets!

The Easter holiday is a terrific time to incorporate fun, spring-filled ideas into basic math teaching concepts. You can print or design worksheets to help kids keep track of how many eggs they found in an Easter egg hunt, and then make a chart about all the goodies in the Easter eggs. Mastering the use of a chart is a great organizational math skill that helps with counting and sorting.

Then have them complete basic math worksheets (like the one below) to continue their lessons in counting. Younger children should be encouraged to count and sort, with worksheets in which they have to circle certain quantities of Easter items, count and write down the number of bunnies, or even do simple division (a worksheet with an egg cracked into different numbers of pieces). Older children may find that larger multiplication and division problems are easier to tackle when bunnies, jelly beans, and Peeps are involved.

There's a science lesson in everything! And for Easter, one easy lesson is to look at how chicks come from eggs. Younger kids can put chicken growth development in order to help them understand sequences.

Older kids can learn more about plants and biology by drawing and/or labeling the parts of an Easter lily. To make a fun reward system, hand out a jelly bean for each plant part they label correctly.

Easter occurs on the first Sunday after the full moon, which takes place after the Spring Equinox on March 21. The earliest possible date for Easter is March 22, which occurred in 1818 and won't happen again until 2285. The latest possible date is April 25, which last occurred in 1943 and will happen next in 2038.

The date for Easter is different for Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity, because Westerners follow the Gregorian calendar, while Easterners follow the Julian calendar. The date will fall on the same day for both calendars in 2010 and 2011, as well as 2014 and 2017.