For Easter, we tried out several different activities. Some we could have waited a year; whereas, others they loved doing!
We filled Easter eggs with rocks and made noise with them like miniature shakers.

We even ate outside a few times.
We played a game of ball chase. This game taught them to share and not run with the ball but rather kick or throw it right away.
We had an egg sensory bin where they scooped up rocks with sand shovels and buckets and put them in the sensory tub. They also tried filling the eggs with rocks. This was one of their favorite activities; however, they had trouble closing the eggs on their own.
We made our own Easter basket for our egg hunt. I let them color a paper plate, and then looked up on pinterest how to make it into a basket. They love coloring, so this activity was a huge success.
We tried dyeing Easter eggs, but this activity was a little difficult for them. I placed the water and eggs in two plastic baggies, but somehow, we still had one student break two eggs. They did enjoy doing this though, and almost all of them learned what an egg was during the activity.
Of course we went on an Easter egg hunt. This activity was a blast for them! Did you know finding objects is a standard that two year olds should be able to do. I have half that are two and half that are not, but almost all mine could find the eggs on their own.


We played Pin the Tail on the Bunny. (Dollar Tree special!) Most of them loved doing this; however I had one that did not want her eyes covered.
We tossed the plastic eggs into a shopping cart. They loved doing this!
We played with play dough and used cookie cutters that only cost me a dollar at our local grocery store.
We painted with plastic Easter eggs. I used only half of the egg and only used the ones that were cut down the middle so they were oval shaped when they painted with them.
For our Bible lesson, we broke down the Easter story into a several shorter stories. I have a children's Bible that have this already done for me. The first story was on the Last Supper so I washed their feet and we each ate 'bread' (crackers) and drank 'wine' (water).
The Bible I used was called First Bible Stories. The stories were broke down as follows:
The Last Meal
A Garden Called Gethsemane
I Do Not Know Him
Father Forgive Them
The Son of God
The Tomb
Risen from the Dead
Some of the stories, I briefly explained them or we acted them out while others we read through them and acted them out. A fun activity that we did not get to, but I would have liked to was after reading the tomb and Jesus is Risen, I would have liked to make those marshmallow crescent roll snack. We did them when I taught preschool and at my church, and the children were always so excited to see that 'Jesus" disappears! (http://allrecipes.com/recipe/resurrection-rolls/) Also I had planned to let them make a tomb out of play dough. The key to teaching toddlers a Bible story is to make it fun and exciting, and real to them. Act it out, use props, do an activity, sing a song etc.
A bonus for my little guy was seeing a baby goat and baby bunny at our local university. He loved getting to feed those little animals! He even named the goat Elmo! I'm thinking visiting the farm would make a fun field trip this summer!
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