7 Easter Learning Journal Activities for Kids
If you haven’t tried learning journal activities yet, first of all, you’re in the right place! You can read all about what a learning journal is and how to get started in this post here!
Easter is the perfect time to incorporate fun, hands-on learning into your child’s routine! Whether you have a toddler, preschooler, or kindergartner, a learning journal is a great way to encourage curiosity and creativity while building important early learning skills.
In this post, I’ll share 7 engaging Easter-themed learning journal activities that focus on letter recognition, color matching, patterns, fine motor skills, word families, and more. Learning journals not only make learning fun but also provide a wonderful opportunity to bond with your child (plus, a completed journal makes for a great keepsake)! Get ready to celebrate Easter with interactive, skill-building fun that will have your little one excited to learn!
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Materials:
- blank journal
- black sharpie
- Easter egg stickers (not sure where the ones pictured here came from so I’m linking a few other options I found on Amazon):
- mini Easter eggs
- foam, sparkly eggs (& bunnies- use these for a “B” for “Bunny” activity)
- colorful, patterned eggs
Here is an easy activity you can do with children as early as age 2 up through age 4 or even 5! It works on fine motor skills (peeling stickers), spatial awareness (placing them on the letter), letter recognition (uppercase and lowercase Ee), and even letter sounds (the fact that the word “egg” starts with the short “e” sound).
This was actually one of the first learning journal activities we ever did back in 2020 so I have no idea where our foam egg stickers came from but I linked a few other egg stickers I found that looked like they’d be fun for an activity like this!
Materials:
- blank journal
- black sharpie
- fine point sharpie
- markers
- dot stickers
This activity is great for young toddlers as early as age 18 months up through age 3. You could even choose to use all one color if you aren’t sure they’re ready for color matching quite yet. Peeling stickers and placing them in a certain spot is a great way to build early learning skills such as working fine motor muscles and using spatial awareness.
Draw little bunny faces on dot stickers using a black sharpie, and then draw bunny ears and a little dot as a guide for where to place each sticker in the journal. Toddlers can name each color as they peel the dot stickers and place them over the dots making little bunny faces!
Materials:
- blank journal
- black sharpie
- markers
- plastic eggs
- double sided tape
- scotch tape (for when you’re done and ready to turn the page)
This is another one that’s great for younger toddlers as it works on color recognition and color matching using plastic Easter eggs. I drew colored eggs in the journal that coordinate with the colors of eggs that I had on hand, and put a small piece of double-sided tape on top of each one.
The double-sided tape is mainly so that when your toddler places the plastic egg onto the coordinating-colored egg in the journal, it doesn’t just roll away but rather sticks to the page. Have them match each egg to the colored egg on the page and then pull them off and put them back in the basket.
To extend this activity and get little ones up and moving around, hide the eggs first and let them go on a little egg hunt before sticking them in the journal!
When finished with the activity, take a small piece of regular clear tape and place it over the double-sided tape so that the pages don’t stick together. ;)
Materials:
- blank journal
- black sharpie
- bunny stickers (if those sell out, here is another option)
I ordered these bunny stickers last season and absolutely LOVED them for learning journal activities! You can also write on them with a black sharpie which makes the options endless.
This activity works on simple AB patterns (switch it up and work on more complex patterns for older kiddos) which is a great skill for ages 3-5. Children can name each color as they say the pattern and then place the coordinating sticker in the final box that would come next in the pattern.
Talk about how a pattern is something that repeats over and over! PS being able to recognize and name patterns is actually not just a math skill but also a pre-reading skill as patterns are often found in books as well!
Materials:
- blank journal
- black sharpie
- crayons or markers
- plastic eggs (pull apart if attached to be able to mix and match)
Here is another great way to use plastic Easter eggs! Some eggs come attached but can easily be pulled apart so you can mix and match tops and bottoms. Just use coordinating-colored markers or crayons to draw up different top and bottom egg combos in the journal, then have children find the matching colors to connect together and place on top of each matching egg in the journal.
I don’t think I did the double-sided tape hack for this one but you definitely can if you don’t want the eggs rolling away. Sometimes the tops and bottoms can be tricky to connect together which is why I’d recommend this one for probably ages 3 and up. I can even see my 6 year old having fun with this activity (it’s okay to let your child do activities that are “too easy” for them… not everything has to be a challenge and things like this are ALWAYS great for building fine motor skills)!
Materials:
- blank journal
- black sharpie
- crayons or markers
- dot stickers
This activity is great for children who have mastered most letter recognition and have started learning the sounds that letters make. A recommended age range for this activity would be 4-6.
Draw bunnies in the journal and write letters where their tails would go. Use the coordinating-colored dot stickers so they can also color match to the bunnies as they say each letter sound and place a sticker over the letter giving them each a tail.
You could also use this as a way to work on letter recognition/matching uppercase and lowercase letters by adding lowercase letters to the dot stickers for them to match. Children can still also say the letter sounds as they match them.
Materials:
- blank journal
- black sharpie
- crayons or markers
- - plastic eggs (pull apart if attached to be able to mix and match)
- dry erase marker (this will wipe off easily - if that will be frustrating for your child, then you can use a sharpie but I can’t guarantee the sharpie will wipe clean. You may be able to color over it with a dry erase marker and then erase, but it may leave smudging).
You’ll want to use plastic eggs that are fully separated for this activity. You’ll write a different word family on each basket in the journal and then write beginning letter sounds and coordinating word families on the tops and bottoms of the plastic eggs. Children can practice building words and blending letter sounds together as they read and match them to the coordinating baskets.
Remember to join my Digital Learning Journal Membership if you want access to more of my learning journal activity ideas organized by age group and by season!
If you love the idea of a learning journal but hand drawing activities doesn’t call your name, try my premade, reusable spring-themed activity book!
If you’re looking for Easter activity ideas for little ones, you may also be looking for Easter basket ideas. I have created three idea guides for children ages 1-8 that you can check out here!
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