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Year 3 Easter Activities
Write an Easter poem. You could try: ❖an acrostic poem ❖a shape poem ❖a limerick ❖a haiku
Easter Wordsearch
Can you find all 12 words
relating to the Easter story?
• Jesus • bread
• temple • angel
• palm leaves • Peter
• priests • cross
• Judas • tomb
• wine • Easter
Easter Symbols
Can you remember what all the Easter symbols represent?
(Hint: Use the next few slides to remind yourself!)
What Is Easter?
Easter is a celebration full of fun, happiness, colorful Easter eggs, cute bunnies, and
spring lambs!
But Easter is also an important religious celebration for Christians. It is a time to
remember Jesus’ suffering and His resurrection.
The week leading up to Easter Sunday is called Holy Week. There are several important
days during Holy Week.
Maundy Thursday (when The Last Supper happened)
Good Friday (when Jesus died on the cross)
Easter Sunday (when Jesus was resurrected)
Cross Jesus was crucified on a cross. Christians believe He rose again after His death and that the cross symbolizes both God’s sacrifice and the good news of His victory over death.
Palm Branches When Jesus entered Jerusalem, crowds of people welcomed Him and waved palm branches as He passed by. Today, many churches make palm crosses out of palm leaves to remember His arrival in Jerusalem.
Easter Bunny Some believe European pagan religions first incorporated rabbits and hares into the celebration of Easter as they symbolize new life. While others believe the Easter Bunny originated from Germany. German children believed in “Osterhase” or “Oschter Haws.” It is said they colored nests for the bunny to lay the eggs. This tradition is thought to have come to the U.S. with German immigrants in the 1700s.
Chicks Similar to bunnies, chicks hatching are said to symbolize new life.
Hot Cross Buns Tasty, sweet bread rolls, baked with raisins and spices, are commonly eaten during Holy Week. They are marked with a cross to symbolize the crucifixion of Jesus.
Easter lilies have white blossoms which represent the purity of Jesus.
Lilies and tulips bloom in spring; a beautiful display of new life.
They are often used in flower arrangements in churches during Holy Week.
FlowersEaster Eggs Traditionally, Easter eggs are painted chicken’s eggs. This practice of painting eggs is thought to have originated in Mesopotamia, where eggs were stained red in memory of the blood of Jesus. Eggs also symbolize the empty tomb from which Jesus emerged when He came back to life. Easter eggs today are often made of delicious chocolate and filled with toys and candy! Some countries still have finely painted eggs, like these beautiful examples from Romania.
Help the rabbit find her way to the carrots by counting in 8s through the maze.
Use the table to decipher the words: Create some of your own code words for someone else to solve
Count the number of Spring objects in the image and complete the
table:
Eli works out that there are 16 rabbit ears in a
picture. How many rabbits were there? How do
you know?Write a fraction sentence to go with each picture.
Draw a picture to go with each fraction sentence:
1/4 of 16 = 4
1/2 of 4 = 2
1/3 of 18 = 6
2/4 of 20 = 10Unscramble these words. Some of the letters from the words hidden in the eggs will spell out an Easter-themed words when rearranged. Can you find the word?
Make an Easter bonnet or decorate an egg at home and
take a picture.
We can judge who made the best one when we come back
to school!Ask an adult to help you make one of these delicious Easter
recipes to share with your family.Crispy Nest Cakes
Ingredients
• 225g/8oz chocolate, broken into pieces
• 2tbsp golden syrup Method
• 50g/20z butter 1. Line a 12-hole fairy cake tin with 12 paper bun cases.
• 75g/30z cornflakes (rice krispies or 2. Put the chocolate, golden syrup and butter in a bowl and heat
shredded wheat work well too!) over a pan of gently simmering water. (Do not let the base of
• 36 mini chocolate eggs the bowl touch the water). Stir the mixture until smooth.
3. Remove the bowl from the heat and gently stir in your chosen
Equipment cereal. Keep stirring until the cereal is completely covered in
▪ Spoon chocolate.
▪ Bowl 4. Chill in the fridge for 1 hour, or until they are completely set.
▪ Pan
▪ Bun cases
▪ Fairy cake tinIngredients Hot Cross Buns
• 500g strong, white bread flour
• 50g caster sugar Equipment
• 50g butter, cubed ▪ Oven
• 200g dried mixed fruit ▪ 2 mixing bowls
• 7g sachet of easy-blend dried yeast ▪ Measuring jug
• 200ml milk ▪ Fork or whisk for beating
• 2 eggs ▪ Blunt knife
• 2tsp mixed spice ▪ Baking sheet
• ½ tsp salt ▪ Cling film
▪ Piping bag
To Decorate ▪ Pastry brush
o 3 tbsp plain flour
o 2tbsp water
o Honey or golden syrupMethod
Hot Cross Buns
1. Mix the bread flour, salt, mixed spice and 7. Shape each piece into a bun and place on a floured
sugar in a bowl. surface. Then, place them on a baking sheet. Cover
2. Rub in the butter using your fingertips and stir loosely with cling film and leave in a warm place until
in the dried fruit. they have grown about 50% bigger.
3. Sprinkle the yeast over the mixture and stir. 8. When they have risen, mix the decorating flour and
4. Carefully, warm the milk and beat this with water to make a paste. This will make the cross on
the eggs. Then, add the dry ingredients. the top.
5. Mix the ingredients until they form a moist 9. Put the paste into a piping bag. Pipe crosses on the
dough and leave for 5 minutes. top of each bun.
6. Remove the dough from the bowl and cut into 10. Bake for 12-15 minutes until golden. Brush the honey
8 equal pieces. or golden syrup over the top.
11. Enjoy warm or toasted with butter!Honey Biscuits
Ingredients
• 1⁄2 cup margarine or 1/2 cup butter, softened Method
• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, packed 1. Heat oven to 190°C.
• 1⁄2 cup honey 2. Beat margarine, brown sugar, honey, and egg in a
• 1 egg medium bowl on medium speed, scraping bowl
• 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour constantly, until smooth. Stir in remaining
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda ingredients.
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt 3. Drop dough by teaspoonful onto an ungreased
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon baking sheet.
4. Bake until set and light brown around edges
Equipment (surface of biscuits will appear shiny), 7-9 minutes.
▪ Spoon 5. Let stand 3-5 minutes before removing from baking
▪ Bowl sheet.
▪ Baking sheet
▪ OvenFruit Punch
Ingredients
• 2 punnets of strawberries, sliced
• 2 blood orange, cut into small wedges
• 1 litre pineapple juice.
Method
• ½ litre fresh orange juice.
1. Add the chopped fresh fruit to the jug.
• ½ litre pomegranate juice.
2. Pour in the orange juice, pineapple juice and
• ½ litre ginger ale.]
pomegranate juice.
• Ice (optional)
3. Slowly pour in the ginger ale and stir the punch.
4. Evenly distribute between the glasses. Add ice if
Equipment
required.
▪ Knife
▪ Chopping board
▪ Large jug
▪ 10 glasses
▪ Long spoonMethod
Lemon Drizzle Cake 1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
2. Mix the butter and caster sugar in a bowl and beat until
Ingredients creamy.
• 225g self-raising flour 3. Add 4 eggs, one at a time and mix slowly.
• 225g softened unsalted butter 4. Sift in 225g flour and add the lemon zest. Mix well.
• 225g caster sugar 5. Line the loaf tin with greaseproof paper, spoon in the
• 4 eggs mixture and level the top with your spoon.
• grated zest of 1 lemon 6. Bake for 40-50 minutes, until a skewer inserted comes
out clean. Leave the cake to cool in its tin.
For Drizzle Topping 7. Mix together the lemon juice and caster sugar to make
o 85g caster sugar the drizzle.
o juice 1&1/2 lemons 8. Make holes in the top of the cake as evenly as possible
and pour over the drizzle.
9. Leave in the tin until completely cool
Equipment
▪ Mixing bowl
▪ Wooden spoon
▪ Loaf tin
(8 x 21 cm)
▪ Greaseproof paperEaster Egg Biscuits
Ingredients
• 225 unsalted butter (room Equipment
temperature) ▪ Baking trays
• 225g caster sugar ▪ Baking paper
• 1tsp vanilla extract ▪ Mixing bowls
• 1 egg ▪ Wooden spoon
• 330g plain flour ▪ Rolling pin
• 2tsps baking powder ▪ Egg-shaped cookie cutters
• Pinch of salt ▪ Cooling rack
▪ Sieve
To Decorate ▪ Small bowls
o 400g icing sugar ▪ Small spoons or blunt knives.
o 3-4 tsps warm water
o Food colouring
o SprinklesEaster Egg Biscuits 7. Divide the dough into small portions and roll out on a lightly
Method floured surface.
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C 8. Use cookie cutters to cut the dough into egg shapes and place
2. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the onto the lined baking trays.
butter and sugar until light and fluffy. 9. Bake for 8-10 minutes.
3. Next, beat in the vanilla extract and the egg. 10. Leave to cool on the baking tray until firm enough to transfer
4. In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, salt to a cooling rack.
and baking powder. 11. Once cool, the cookies can be decorated! Sift the icing sugar
5. Gradually mix the dry ingredients into the wet into a bowl and gradually stir in enough water to make a
ingredients – adding a little of the flour smooth mixture. Add food colouring if desired.
mixture at a time, to make a stiff dough. 12. Use a small spoon or knife to gently spread the icing over the
6. Use your hands to lightly knead the mixture cooled biscuits.
into a dough. 13. Carefully, sprinkle over the sprinkles! Try different shapes,
sizes and colours to create different effects.You can also read
