Egg-cellent Easter Resources for 2025

This year Easter Sunday is on the 20^th of April. The last few weeks of spring term are an opportunity to explore the story of Easter and reflect on its significance for Christians. It’s also a great time for some fun cross-curricular activities before school breaks up.

Read on to learn more about Easter and to find a list of our top ten resources for celebrating Easter in the classroom. Let’s hop to it. 🐇
 

What is Easter?

The focus of the Easter story is of course the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday and his Resurrection on Easter Sunday. For many Christians, Easter is the most important holiday in their calendar. Easter is seen as a time of new beginnings, so flowers, chicks, lambs and — of course — eggs are often associated with it.

Easter is also the end of Lent, a 40-day period of fasting and prayer for many Christians. The final week of Lent running up to Easter Sunday is known as Holy Week. The story of Holy Week starts with Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, and includes Judas’ betrayal of Jesus (on Holy Wednesday) and the Last Supper (on Maundy Thursday). As well as being a major Christian festival, Easter is an important cultural tradition in the UK and across the world — it’s celebrated in lots of unique ways.
 

Easter Traditions Around the World

Here are a few of our favourite Easter traditions from around the world:

• In the UK, children decorate eggs ready to roll them down a hill on Easter Monday. The egg that rolls furthest is the winner.
• In Mexico, people fill hollowed eggs with confetti (they’re known as cascarones) and crush them on other peoples’ heads.
• In Corfu, people have a smashing time throwing large clay pots from their windows.
• In Sweden, children dress up as witches on Maundy Thursday, or the Saturday before Easter Sunday, and go trick-or-treating.
• In France, in the city of Bessières, a giant omelette is made every year — it takes about 15 000 eggs to make!
• In Central and Eastern Europe, people mould butter into the shape of a lamb to serve at the dinner table.
• In Guatemala, people create beautiful carpets in the streets using dyed sawdust and flowers.

 

When is Easter?

The date of Easter Sunday changes every year. It’s the first Sunday after the full moon on or after the spring equinox (when day and night are of equal length). It’s always between March 22^nd and April 25^th. Orthodox Christians determine the date differently — this is why for some countries Easter happens four or five weeks later.
 

Easter School Activities and Teaching Resources

There’s plenty of Easter fun to be had with CGP+ — we’ve got teaching resources on the Easter story and lots of other activities to get stuck into. Here are a few of our faves:
 

Easter Story Powerpoints (Years 1-6)

You can use these Powerpoints to help tell the story of Easter — there’s one for Years 1-2 and another for Years 3-6 that comes in Part 1 and Part 2.

 

Easter Quiz Powerpoint (Years 3-6)

After covering the Easter story, you can use this quiz to test children’s knowledge of the story and the traditional symbols of Easter.
 

The Easter Story Comic Strip (Years 3-6)

You could also use this comic strip activity so children can retell the story in their own way. There’s a foundation level version too with the text filled in for extra scaffolding.
 

The Story of Easter Cut and Stick Activity (Years 1-2)

For Years 1-2, this activity can be used to retell the story through the medium of cut and stick.
 

Easter — French Flashcards (Years 1-2)

Add some essential Easter words to your class vocabulary with these French flashcards. They work well for memory and matching games.

 

Eggcellent Shopping Activity (Years 3-4)

Children can practise their product evaluation skills with this D&T worksheet. They’ll need to look at a range of eggboxes and make judgements on who the products are aimed at and whether or not they are good products (it makes for a great homework task).
 

Roll & Race — Egg-ception Word Game (Year 1)

This board game gets children to practise reading and spelling common exception words. They must move around the board challenging each other to spell the words when a player lands on a cracked egg space. The words get trickier in this stretch level version.

 

Nate’s Egg Hunt — Reading Comprehension (Year 2)

Join Nate and his sister Molly on an Easter egg hunt with this reading comprehension. There’s also a stretch level version for a bit more of a challenge.
 

Nest Eggs — Sound Sorting Activity (Reception and Year 1)

In this activity you’ll find sets of word cards with pictures grouped by the sounds within the words. Pick up to three sets of words and challenge children to sort them into the correct sound ‘nests’.

 

Extras for the Classroom

If you’re looking for some colourful Easter displays or some quick activities to hand out, we’ve got you covered. Take a look at our bunting sets, paper chains, colouring in pages, wordsearch and crossword.

Don’t forget to check out our CGP+ Facebook and Instagram pages to keep tabs on our upcoming resources (or to let us know what you’re getting up to this Easter).

We hope you have a lovely Easter and get to enjoy a chocolate egg (or three). 🍫