Easy Easter Math Activities for Preschoolers

The Easter Bunny is hopping into town with a basket full of fun Easter math activities for preschoolers! With just a few simple materials from home, or from your Easter decorations tote, you can create these cute and clever Easter activities in no time at all.

Easter Math Activities to Add to Your Lesson Planning

Easter isn’t just a time for clever crafts.

I do love walking the aisles of the stores when the Easter decorations come out. Everything is splattered with soft pastel colors, and the Easter arts and crafts kids get more and more creative every year. And toddlers and preschoolers cannot get over the cuteness of little bunny bums and soft baby chicks.

In fact, some of my own Easter themed printables for kids have been inspired by those, as you will read further down. Because the truth is, when it comes to spring activities in preschool, I just love these fun ideas the stores inspire.

This post has been updated but still includes the original text. The activities remain the same, however in the updated version I offer ways to recreate these Easter math activities using free printables from my site.

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Math Based Easter Activities for Preschoolers

Let’s make our Easter lesson plans for preschool super easy this year by adding these simple math activities. Just a little prep, for loads of learning and fun!

Materials

• patterned Easter eggs
• number cards
• Easter animal manipulatives
• plastic Easter eggs
• small Easter-like counting manipulative

Special Notes About the Materials

These materials needed for the following math activities can be replaced by other things you may have on hand, or you can use other printables on my site for these activities. Let me show you how.

• patterned Easter eggs – These were actually made from a yard of fabric that happened to also have a grid-like pattern on it. You can use this printable as a replacement.
• number cards – I just made some out of index cards, but you can also use these number formation tracing cards.
• Easter animal manipulatives – Just use anything you have on hand, or make a quick trip to the dollar store. Alternatively, you can also use baby animal counting manipulatives.
• small Easter-like counting manipulative – I had some acrylic flowers on hand, but you can just as easily use colorful buttons.

Easter Counting Activity: Number Sense (One to One Correspondence)

Original text: As I was searching for colorful manipulatives to use for our Easter activities this year, I came across some fabric that was decorated with Easter eggs in a grid-like format.  I cut out various lengths of the fabric, following the grid pattern, and laminated the strips, to make manipulative strips for the numbers 1 through 15.  Using index cards with the numeral printed on, I invited my son to count the eggs on each strip and match the number with it’s numeral.

How to Duplicate This Activity Using Free Printables: It would be really difficult, if not impossible, to find this exact fabric since we did this activity over ten years ago. Instead, you can use the patterned easter eggs from my Easter Bingo game printable, as well as my number formation cards, to easily recreate this.

Sorting Easter Egg Patterns: Algebra

Original Text: Using the same fabric as mentioned above, I cut out individual eggs for this sorting activity.  Some eggs had polka dots, some had stripes, and some had both polka dots and stripes.  I invited my preschooler to sort the eggs according to their patterns. This was a challenging task at first since the third group of eggs shared attributes with the other two groups.

How to Duplicate This Activity Using Free Printables: Use the patterned easter eggs from my Easter Bingo game printable.

Easter Egg Graphing: Data Analysis and Probability

Original Text: I always find it makes the most sense to invite a preschool aged child to graph information only after he has sorted it himself, so it was only natural at our house that once the eggs had been properly sorted that William would line them up the graph them.  As you can see in the picture below, we added a fourth row of eggs, those with flowers on them.

How to Duplicate This Activity Using Free Printables: Use the patterned easter eggs from my Easter Bingo game printable. This freebie also includes bunny bums, which can also be sorted and graphed.

Easter Patterning: Algebra

Original Text: This week, since I had purchased some cute felt bunnies and chicks at the craft store, I introduced William to some different kinds of patterning.  In particular, I wanted to expose William to the idea that patterns are not just AB or ABC, but some patterns can look very different from what we have previously been studying.  While exploring these little manipulative myself, I found there were several challenging patterns, even a challenging AB pattern.

How to Duplicate This Activity: Easter patterning activities like this one can be easily recreated by using any spring-like manipulative found at the dollar store. You can also use buttons, pastel beads, or even stickers.

Comparing Easter Egg Strips: Measurement

Original Text: Using the same strips of fabric from the activities above, I selected 5 or so out of the 15 for William to organize according to length.  After he had them lined up properly, we counted to eggs on each strip and shared that with these strips more eggs equals longer strips of fabric.

How to Duplicate This Activity Using Free Printables: Use the patterned easter eggs from my Easter Bingo game printable. Invite your preschoolers to glue the pieces on strips of card stock to create their own lengths of measurement. Then, have your preschoolers order them.

Easter Surprise Counting: Number Sense (One to One Correspondence)

Original Text: At the dollar store I found some plastic flower shaped table scatter.  I packed a carton of eggs with said table scatter and invited my preschooler to select an egg.  He opened it and counted the contents.  We then found that matching numeral. 

How to Duplicate This Activity: Fill the Easter eggs with buttons, pastel beads, or even stickers. Use the number formation tracing cards along with them.

Easter Egg Addition: Number Sense

Original Text: Pack twelve eggs with various amounts of flower table scatter and used the numeral cards from the counting activity described above. I invited my preschooler to select two eggs from the carton.  He opened the first, counted the contents and found the matching numeral. Then he opened the second, counted the contents and found the matching numeral.

How to Duplicate This Activity: Fill the Easter eggs with buttons, pastel beads, or even stickers. Use the number formation tracing cards along with them.

Then I invited him to add all the table scatter together to count the final amount.

More Easter Activities for Preschoolers

You can never have too many holiday activities for kids, and that includes Easter! Especially if you’re looking for clever Easter crafts for kids! From matching games and sensory bins to plastic eggs for practicing counting, we’ve got you covered!

Sarah Punkoney, MAT

I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.

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