Dreaming of Spring: Giant Word Search Easter Card
Do your kids get magazines? Or do you get them for your classroom? Our friends gave us a subscription a few years ago for a birthday present- what a fun monthly surprise to read and a good way to get engaged with different types of texts! In our last edition there was a word search and the kids wanted to make a giant word search card to go with an Easter gift.
What magazines do you get? We’d love to hear your recommendations!
you'll need Materials
- Large paper (bristol board or foam board)
- Markers (We wanted to try out these chalkboard writers, but truthfully they were a bit smudgy!)
- Letter Stickers
- Ruler or metre stick
- Pencil/eraser (For planning)
- Lined paper (For planning)
- Smock & tablecloth *Optional
Directions
- We made an optional border on our large piece of paper using the width of the ruler.
- Make your paper into a grid. We used the width of the ruler, making horizontal rows and vertical columns that intersected. Just make sure your spaces are big enough to fit your chosen stickers!
- We wrote out our greeting in different colours, but you could hide this within your word search if you like.
- Plan out the words that you would like to include and list them on a piece of paper. You may need to get an adult to help you confirm the spelling. Put your words into your grid with some horizontal, vertical and diagonal.
- The kid’s ideas might included: Spring, bunny, celebrate, rabbit, lamb, basket, daffodils, chick, jellybeans, egg, hunt, hop, lily and chocolate.
- Once you have inserted all your words, fill the additional spaces with your left over stickers in a random manner.
- Give your card to someone special. You could provide them with the sheet of words to find or not- increasing the complexity of the activity! You might want to tape a special pen or marker to the card for them to do their circling. (We circled one word so the recipient of the card would get the idea!)
Purpose
- Thinking of others
- Learning vocabulary commonly associated with various holidays or celebrations
Safety Notes
- A smock can be handy in protecting one’s clothes from markers and a plastic table cloth for crafting helps to protect your workspace/table!
