The spring season allows for so many fun themes that really resonate with preschoolers. Flowers and gardening, insects, clouds and rain, and of course, Earth Day and Easter holidays! And with that brings free Easter games for kids!
Of course one of our favorite holiday preschool themes is Easter, and I always like to introduce our this theme with something extra fun like a printable bingo game. Be sure to grab your free Easter bingo game from the end of this post.
Free Easter Bingo Game for Preschoolers or Toddlers
I didn’t used to celebrate Easter with my preschoolers.
Even though my childhood was filled with huge multi-family Easter celebrations, I often skipped it in preschool. I don’t really know why — I think I just kind of forgot about it.
But now that I have my own kids, I am much better at celebrating Easter in preschool. Not only do we spend a week or so just on an Easter preschool theme, but we also have a super special Easter party the Thursday or Friday before the actual holiday.
If I do say so myself, I now throw a pretty fun Easter party for preschool and it’s filled with really fun free Easter games for kids. Here are a few things we always do:
- Decorate old egg cartons as easy DIY Easter baskets for our class Easter Egg hunt. This works really well because every preschooler collects the same number of eggs. Once their egg carton is full, their egg hunt is over.
- Have egg and spoon races.
- Play a game of Wobbly Easter Egg Bowling.
- Play Easter Egg Memory (using this bingo game). This is a fun activity for toddlers, too!
- Have an Easter Bunny Hop. This is a fun gross motor game that gets the kids out in the sunshine and…you guessed it…hopping around!
We do lots of Easter crafts, too.
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Easter Activity Pack$5.00
Easter printables are a cheap way to celebrate.
And of course, we use free Easter printables for our Easter party in preschool, too! Here are some free Easter printables you are sure to love!
FAQ About Playing Games with Kids
Don’t feel guilty for playing games with kids, especially for a holiday like Easter. Game have so many benefits to young children, especially preschoolers and toddlers.
Playing games with your preschooler is more than just a special bonding time. Playing games has huge benefits! Here are some benefits of playing games with your young learners. They can:
~ offer multiple opportunities for learning.
~ get kids to think critically.
~ encourage oral language development.
~ help your child focus and lengthen their attention span.
~ teach teamwork and inclusiveness.
~ provide a fun way of connecting and bonding.
~ help navigate new friendships.
~ ease social anxiety.
~ teach kids how to be a good loser.
Many young children are a little apprehensive when put in situations that require peer interaction. Games are a fantastic way to ease that anxiety.
“Because they’re structured, board games can provide an easier way to build interpersonal relationships with peers, since the child knows what’s expected of them,” explains Regine Galanti, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist and professor at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology.
Additionally, games can also teach children inclusion, tolerance, cooperation, and resilience when working with others.
Teachers are increasing the use of game and game principals to enhance their instruction. Reason being is that research sites that using games can increase student participation, foster social development, and amplify emotional learning.
Studies have also found that games can improve focus and attention, as well as improve spatial and temporal attention. This can result in higher reading levels.
Games are not a replacement for other forms of learning. They are a tool that can be used in education, but they need to be well-planned and only used when they are relevant to the learning objectives.
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Printable Easter Theme Bingo Game for Preschool
A simple bingo game is a fun way to begin an Easter theme in preschool.
As always, I offer five other ways to use this Easter printable, so be sure to read all the ideas at the end of the post. And don’t forget to grab your free Easter preschool printable at the end of this post, too.
Materials
- Free Easter bingo game (found at the end of this post)
- Bingo chips (or math counters)
The Set-Up
Simply print, cut, and laminate.
Give each preschooler a game card and a small bowl of counters and then invite them to join you in a game of Easter bingo!
Make Anything Easter Themed
You can take any activity, whether it be a printable or a hands-on activity for kids, and turn it into an Easter themed activity if you have the right materials. Here are some Easter themed supplies I keep in my Easter preschool box.
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Easter Activity Pack$5.00
How to Play The Easter Bingo Game with Preschoolers
This game is played like all other bingo games, it’s just with a colorful Easter theme. A facilitator draws a card and calls out the picture for the children to find on their cards. If they have the matching picture on their cards, they use a math counter to cover it up. The first player to get five in a row wins the game!
One of the reasons I like bingo and blackout games is because they can help develop vocabulary and oral language skills. You can challenge your preschoolers by asking them to first name the picture or beginning sound on the calling card before you name it.
Because there are lot of different patterned Easter eggs included in this free printable, they can easily be used for visual discrimination activities. In fact, playing Bingo is a matching and visual discrimination activity in and of itself.
When you draw a card, invite your preschoolers to describe the picture before finding it on their card.
Related Reading
Don’t Forget Easter Picture Books
Any preschool learning activity can be elevated by the right picture books. Here are some of the books I have in my preschool library. These Easter picture books are always a favorite.
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Easter Activity Pack$5.00
More Ways to Use These in Your Easter Lesson Plans
You know I adore a printable that can be used in more than one way. Here are some other ideas for using this printable.
- Make two copies of the calling cards and play a memory game. For toddlers, play a matching game.
- You can even add the two sets to an Easter sensory bin. Toddlers love finding fun Easter games in their sensory bins with plastic eggs.
- Invite younger preschoolers to describe the pictures they see on their game cards. Have them talk what they see, including the colors and patterns. This is egg-celent for oral language development.
- Use the cards as inspiration to tell and make up stories about the Easter Bunny. As the teacher or parent, you can write down the children’s stories to demonstrate print awareness.
- Challenge the preschoolers to find the differences between two cards. Compare two cards to see what pictures are the same and which pictures are missing.
- Make two copies of each game card. Cut the rows from the second game cards and invite preschoolers to match the cut rows from the second card to the complete game cards.
Looking for More Spring and Easter Preschool Activities?
Try these printable preschool centers. Just prep once and use all season long.
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Spring Preschool Centers$10.00 -
Insect Preschool Centers$10.00 -
Insect Emergent Readers$3.00
Get Your Easter Bingo Game Here!
Think this bingo game is one your preschoolers will love? You can grab your free camping bingo game by clicking the image below.
Easter Bingo Game + More Ways to Use This Printable
Of course one of our favorite holiday preschool themes is Easter, and I always like to introduce our this theme with something extra fun like a printable bingo game. Make sure you also print the free bingo game above!
Materials
- heavy cardstock
- counting manipulatives or bingo markers
Tools
- laminator (optional)
- color printer
Instructions
- Print the above bingo game in color on heavy cardstock.
- Cut apart the calling cards.
- Draw a calling card and cover the corresponding picture on your bingo card.
- Continue until a player gets four in a row.
Try these additional ways to use this printable:
- Make two copies of the calling cards and play a memory game.
- Invite younger preschoolers to describe the pictures they see on their game cards. Have them talk what they see, including the colors and patterns.
- Use the cards as inspiration to tell and make up stories about the Easter Bunny. As the teacher or parent, you can write down the children’s stories to demonstrate print awareness.
- Challenge the preschoolers to find the differences between two cards. Compare two cards to see what pictures are the same and which pictures are missing.
- Make two copies of each game card. Cut the rows from the second game cards and invite preschoolers to match the cut rows from the second card to the complete game cards.
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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.
