Friday, February 4, 2011

Easter Educational Activities - Printable Easter Games For Parents to Use When Schools Ignore Easter

If you are a parent wondering why you are not seeing Easter educational activities coming home with your child, you are not alone. When school systems head to spring, particularly after a long snowy winter, they tend to ignore Easter and pretty much stick to spring themes.

Teachers are feeling the crunch and will claim they do not have time to create Easter themed activities. Parents are left to search for quality Easter games that can be used at home. They will start to search for free games on line, but you may find better quality if they were to purchase printable Easter games that can be stored on their computers to use now and in the future.

Here is a guide to some kinds of Easter educational activities that kids enjoy:


Mazes- Easter mazes might weave in some math problems to solve, or include chances to pick up letters or words as they go through the maze that will end up becoming a mystery word or phrase, Game Boards- A board game with an Easter theme gives a different choice of a family game to play. If you can get printable Easter games that use math, vocabulary, or problems solving, you can sneak in extra practice while having some fun.

Word Puzzles- Kids always like these. They can be printed off and stapled together to use in the car, or while waiting for a siblings baseball practice to get over or on a rainy afternoon. There are a variety of different kinds of word puzzles. Some favorites are word searches, word scrambles, or mix and match sentences
Writing Prompts- These will give parents some ideas for getting their children to do some journal writing in over the long Easter weekend.

Math Worksheets -You can never get enough math fact reinforcement so a fun Easter math worksheets will give lots of choices for Easter educational activities with quality, fun exercises that motivate students These worksheets might include riddles, or a Sudoku puzzle using current math skills to be effective.

Parents who are looking for educational Easter activities should focus on finding a few quality Easter games spanning several grade levels. That way all the children in one family will be able to use the same resource. You will always have new and different Easter educational activities to use. Before buying any materials you find online, double check and see if there are several activities available at different grade levels so they can be used more than once during the weeks leading up to Easter and over the long Easter weekend.

If your local school system ignores Easter, and you want to celebrate Easter in a variety of ways, then finding fun quality Easter games to use at home will be a perfect thing for your family. Printable Easter games also make great Easter basket gifts. Print them out in color and laminate them and you have a professional looking Easter game to share with others. It is not hard to figure out ways to use Easter educational activities to create some family fun.

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