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Eggs for Easter

Easter is the holiest day of the year for Christians. Students will explore how it is celebrated around the world and create a 3D Easter egg basket.

Lesson Plan

Supplies Needed

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  • Heavy Paper
  • Paper
  • Recycled Cardboard Box

Steps

  • Step 1

    Easter is celebrated in the majority of the world's countries. Have students explore some facts about this holiest day for Christians. When was the earliest recorded observance of an Easter celebration? What are some of the symbols associated with it? How do people observe and celebrate the day in your region?

  • Step 2

    Ask students to investigate how countries around the world celebrate Easter. For example, in Ethiopa people celebrate Faskia, the 55 days leading up to Easter. The night before Easter is somber, but on Easter morning there is music and dancing. In Guatemala, the streets are decorated with colorful temporary carpets known as "alfombras" that are made with flower petals and dyed sawdust.

  • Step 3

    Have students create a 3D Easter basket display. They can begin by covering a small recycled box such as a tissue box with paper that has been decorated with an Easter design, perhaps a basket filled with colorful eggs, or any other Easter scene. Then they can cut an egg shape out of heavy paper, large enough so that a hole can be cut out of the egg so they could reach items stored inside the decorated box. Or they could insert a smaller drawing behind the hole for a 3D art display inside the egg frame that they affix to the front of the box.

  • Step 4

    Have students take their creations home to be used as Easter decorations. Alternatively, they can bring their artwork to local nursing homes or hospitals for residents and patients to enjoy.

Standards

SS: Individual Development and Identity: Describe factors important to the development of personal identity and the context of identity within families, peer or affinity groups, schools, communities, and nationalities. 

SS: Individual Development and Identity: Explore, identify and analyze how individuals and groups are alike and how they are unique and how they relate to each other in supportive and collaborative ways.

Adaptations

Have students explore the beautiful tradition in Ukraine of creating Pysanky eggs. These are colorful and often elaborately decorated eggs whose designs carry symbolic meaning. They are made by applying melted wax in a design on an eggshell, dipping it into different colored dyes layer by layer, then melting off the wax to reveal the colored patterns.

Ask students to investigate how bunnies and decorated eggs have come to be associated with Easter.