Easter is the perfect time to bring some engaging, fun team-building activities into your classroom! If you’re looking for Easter games for the classroom that encourage collaboration, problem-solving, and friendly competition, these activities will be a hit with your students.
1. Egg-Citing Sorting Relay
Objective: Encourage teamwork and quick thinking with a colorful egg-sorting race.
Materials:
- Plastic Easter eggs in various colors
- Baskets or bowls for sorting
- Spoons (optional, for added challenge)
How to Play:
- Scatter mixed-color plastic eggs at one end of the room.
- Divide students into teams, assigning each team a specific egg color.
- One student at a time races to collect an egg of their color and places it in their team’s basket.
- The first team to collect 10 eggs (or any preassigned number) and place them in their basket wins!
Why It’s Great: This game enhances teamwork, coordination, and friendly competition while getting students moving.
2. SweetTARTS Sorting Challenge
Objective: Foster teamwork and sorting skills with a fun candy-themed race.
Materials:
- SweetTARTS Chicks, Ducks & Bunnies Easter Candy (you can also use another type of candy such as pastel colored M&Ms)
- Small cups or bowls for sorting
- Spoons or clothespins (optional, for an added challenge)
How to Play:
- Divide students into teams and give each team a pile of mixed SweetTARTS Chicks, Ducks & Bunnies candies. (Be sure that each group gets the same amount of SweetTARTS.)
- Each team must sort the candies into separate cups by shape as quickly as possible.
- To increase difficulty, have students use spoons or clothespins to pick up and place the candies.
- The first team to successfully sort all their candies wins!
Why It’s Great: This game reinforces sorting skills, quick thinking, and teamwork while adding a sweet treat to the fun.
3. Bunny Bowling
Objective: Improve hand-eye coordination and teamwork in a fun target game.
Materials:
- Plastic Easter eggs
- Empty toilet paper rolls decorated as bunnies (have students bring one or two from home)
- Optional: A small ramp (clipboard or small incline)
How to Play:
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- Arrange the bunny rolls in a bowling pin formation or stack them vertically for a bigger challenge.
- Students take turns rolling or gently tossing plastic eggs to knock down the bunnies.
- As for the winning, there are different options:
- The first team to knock down all their bunnies wins.
- Play in rounds, and the last team with a bunny still standing wins.
- Set a time limit, and the team that knocks down the most bunnies within the time wins
Why It’s Great: This activity encourages strategic thinking and teamwork while adding a creative Easter touch.
4. Egg Drop Engineering Challenge
Objective: Encourage creativity and problem-solving by designing a contraption to protect a raw egg from breaking.
Materials:
- Raw eggs
- Various building materials (straws, tape, cotton balls, cardboard, etc.)
How to Play:
- Provide teams with materials to design and build a protective device for their egg.
- Set a time limit (20-30 minutes) for construction.
- Once finished, drop each egg from a predetermined height.
- Teams whose eggs remain intact are declared winners!
Why It’s Great: This STEM challenge fosters creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration.
5. Easter Word Puzzle Challenge
Objective: Build teamwork and critical thinking skills through fun Easter-themed word puzzles.
Materials:
- Printable word searches, crossword puzzles, and other word games
- Pencils or markers
- Timers (optional)
How to Play:
- Divide students into small teams and give each team a different word puzzle.
- Set a time limit for teams to complete their puzzles.
- The first team to finish or the team with the most correct answers at the end wins!
Why It’s Great: This game encourages problem-solving, teamwork, and literacy skills in a fun, engaging way. For ready-to-use puzzles, check out this Easter Spring Activities Puzzles resource!
Bring Easter Fun to Your Classroom!
These Easter games for the classroom provide fun team-building activities that promote collaboration, problem-solving, and friendly competition. Whether your students are sorting Sweetarts, engineering egg-saving devices, or knocking down bunny pins, they’ll be engaged, learning, and having a blast together.
Looking for more engaging spring classroom activities? Check them out here: ELA Spring Classroom Activities for 4th & 5th Grade
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