20+ Easy Easter Unit Study Ideas for Homeschoolers

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Putting together an Easter unit study is a great way to involve all your kids in learning about the holiday and breaking up the regular homeschool routine.

I’m sharing some ideas in this post for materials you can use to put together your own Easter unit study for your homeschool this season. Most of these ideas can be used with multiple grades/ages (or adapted easily for different kids!).

Getting Ready for Your Easter Unit Study

Begin driving anticipation for your unit study with decorations! Decorating for Easter is so easy with all the decorations that are available in the stores.

Allowing children to participate in sprucing up their homeschool area can create excitement for the new unit study and makes learning so much more fun! 

Easter Art

You can use art time to make additional decorations for your homeschool room or home. Seeing their art hung up and used as a decoration is a powerful motivator for children.

Here are some fun ideas for art time during your Easter unit study:

1. DIY Scratch Paper
2. Lace Stencils: Use this technique to decorate eggs or egg-shaped cardboard.
3. Easter Bunny Rabbit Handprint Cards
4. Coffee Filter Wreaths

Math Application: Probability

Introducing the idea of probability early on makes it much easier to understand later on in the upper grades, and using jellybeans can make it a fun and exciting project.

I have a fun worksheet to go along with this activity, available in my Easter Learning Pack.

If your child has not learned about probability yet, you may want to have them watch this short video as an introduction:

Then hand them a bag of jellybeans and let them get started on the math worksheets from the Easter Learning Pack. 

If they get stumped with figuring out percentages, you can use this video as a reminder:

History: The History of Easter

An interesting fact about Easter is that it has both Christian and pagan origins. Learning about both of those histories by comparing and contrasting them could make for a very interesting history lesson. 

Here are a few videos you can view: 

The Christian and non- Christian Easter Story

The History of the Holidays- Easter

History of Easter Eggs for Kids

Language Arts: Creative Writing

An easy way to combine History and Language Arts would be to have your child write a summary of what they learned from their history lesson. You could also use the worksheet from the Easter Learning Pack and have them describe which of those Easter traditions they liked the most and why.

They may want to start by writing down their ideas on a separate sheet of paper and then numbering them or creating a mental map to organize their thoughts before they begin the writing process.

If you have a copy of my Holiday Writing Prompts Pack, there are a few Easter prompts in here as well you might choose to incorporate.

Spelling

You may want to use the unscramble words exercise from the Easter Learning Pack as your spelling list for this unit. Don’t forget to have your child alphabetize the words after unscrambling them!

Reading and Comprehension: The History of Easter

Using the What is Easter? worksheet from the Easter Learning Pack, give your child a certain time limit (i.e. 2- 4min.) in which to read the text. After the time limit is up, have them answer the questions.

You may want to do this exercise before the history lesson so that you know that they actually understood what they read and weren’t simply recalling information from the History videos.

Timed reading exercises can be a positive challenge for some children while being too stressful for others. If your child stresses out too much over time restraints, you may want to take away the timer and simply note the time they started and finished on their paper when they are done. The whole point of timed readings isn’t to stress the child out, rather it’s a way to measure their progress.

Additional Easter Reading Materials

There are so many books you might enjoy reading to your kids to celebrate Easter! Here are a couple of suggestions to get you started.

The Berenstain Bears- The Real Easter Egg (Kindle book available)

T’was the Morning of Easter (Kindle book available)

The Night Before Easter (Kindle book available)

You might enjoy my free Easter Reading Kit printable available in this post to keep track of the books you read.

Science: Solubility

A fun experiment to do for Easter would be the solubility of Peeps in various solutions; but before you pull out those worksheets from your Easter Learning Pack, it may be good for you to have your child watch this video on solubility:

After watching, you can explain to them the experiment they will be doing with the peeps. Don’t forget to have them write their hypothesis. Which Peep do they think will dissolve in which solution first? 

Here is a fun song about solubility to listen to, as well:

Wrapping Up Your Easter Unit Study

A fun way to wrap up your Easter unit study would be with an Easter Egg Hunt on the last day. Or you might choose to bless your neighbors by “egging” their yards! What better way to wrap up this exciting Easter unit study?

Additional Unit Study Opportunity

In addition to these ideas, you have a great opportunity this season to teach your kids about the period of time leading up to Easter Sunday…Lent! I recommend some great resources for teaching about Lent in this post that your older students and younger children alike will love.

It’s definitely worth taking the extra time to teach your kids the story of Jesus and what the Easter season really means, preparing their hearts for the holiday.

I hope these resources are a blessing to you this Easter! Drop a comment below and let me know what fun and exciting ways you celebrate Easter this year.

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