All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

For this Easter activity, my second-graders first spread different colors of paint on craft paper. Next, I handed each student a pre-cut bunny for them to decorate however they wanted. I had first elicited Easter vocabulary from them. They gave me words like, bunny, rabbit, eggs, chocolate, and ears. The paint dried pretty fast and the class was able to take their work home to decorate their Easter.

Here's one more craft I did with my 4th-graders. They dipped their fingers in paint to make the little bunnies or eggs. We did the paint one day and the next day after the paint was completely dry, they added the details and wrote "Happy Easter"!  We folded half of a craft paper in half so it could stand up on a table. I had told them they could use it to decorate their houses for the holiday. This was fast and easy.  

Here are two super simple Easter crafts you can do with different ages. In the first craft, I made a bunny shape out of cardboard and glued on a plastic bottle top to use as a grip for a stamp. Just either paint the front of the bunny or dip it into a little paint from a plate and stamp a paper. Let the paint dry, glue the little tail on and have the kids write Happy Easter. And you're done.  In the second craft, I cut a small strip of paper and folded it in the middle so it would stand up. Next, I dipped my finger in a little bit of paint and stamped  the paper four  times. Let the paint dry and draw either bunnies or eggs and write Happy Easter. These are crafts you can do in one class if you don't use too much paint so everything dries fast. And you're done again.  

  We are finally all back in the classroom, still wearing masks and maintaining our distance, but back. It was easier for my third-grade kids to use the "standing paper corner" idea to create a 3D Easter card. They enjoyed themselves and were so happy to take their cards home to decorate their homes. I also made a little paper bunny pocket with some chocolate for each student which they were very excited about. Hope everyone has a Happy Easter!

  Here's my last Easter post, well, for now. I used the same shape I used before here for the standing paper . I cut out this shape and the bunnies from creative paper, used cotton for the tails, added some details with a marker, and it's done. Students can share their cards with the class and take them home to decorate their houses for Easter. Happy Easter everyone!  

  This hungry bunny is funny and easy to draw. Fold a white sheet of paper in the middle, fold each side of the paper back, so you can draw the bunny looking cute first. Next, open the paper completely to draw the big mouth and everything the bunny is eating. The kids can draw lots of different Easter related treats and more if they like. If you like, you can even have them write Happy Easter on the inside.  

    Making a Tic Tac Toe is an awesome fun way to review any vocabulary and to celebrate different holidays or festivities. On this game, I used plastic bottle caps, which I always like to save to repurpose, chopsticks and white paper. It's pretty easy for students to make, just advise them in advance to start saving the bottle caps and get some chopsticks or popsicle sticks for the "hashtag". You and the students can be creative when it comes to drawing the eggs and the bunnies. Another option is drawing eggs and carrots or bunnies and carrots. When they're done, have them share the colors and details they used on their eggs. If they are still at home, they can play with their family.  

 It's chocolate time again! In Brazil, Easter means chocolate Easter eggs. Easter also brings to mind bunnies. Since we're still basically at home waiting to get vaccinated here, an Easter craft has to be made with something kids have at home, so egg cartons it is. Saw this with a range of different animals on Pinterest and thought I'd use it for a bunny Easter craft, so here's Mr. Rabbit's portrait. One of the good things about an egg carton is that it has some curves to it, which you can use for the rabbit's ears. I cut up a cereal box to use as the base, which is another thing kids will most likely have at home, of course, it can be any cardboard. I used markers to decorate the frame-like base. Let kids get creative here. I used hot glue just because I wanted everything to dry faster. I then painted the bunny white, waited for it to dry, and added the details with a black pen. The pink on the ears is also paint. I used a little bit of red and when it mixed wi...

I made these Easter eggs with a group of first graders. As most eveybody is now, we are also having our classes online via Zoom. It's somewhat hard to come up with crafts that don't require mom and dad to feel frustrated because they don't have the material, so I was rather pleased when this one worked! All they had to do was follow the pictures. I first asked them to draw three big ovals with any color of their choosing. They had been studying shapes so this was a perfect activity to revisit the vocabulary. I then asked them to only draw lines on the eggs, then circles and last triangles. I asked them to color the eggs and ouline them with a black pen or crayon. They cut the eggs out, glued them to any thicker paper they could find at home. Cut them out again. Glued sticks or taped plastic spoons to them, and after they dried, used them to decorate their house. They were all able to do it without much help from their parents and were...

Carrot Feet! Here’s to Easter! Got this idea off Pinterest , one of my favorite places to browse. The idea worked and students were tickled. Literally. I painted their feet and they laughed through the whole process. A lot of paper towels involved in the cleaning up but so very worth it. They then cut different shades of green creative paper to glue to taste. 😊 They were able to practice saying feet, foot and of course Happy Easter !