Looking for creative ways to use plastic Easter eggs in your middle school ELA classroom? These simple activities get students moving while reviewing grammar, reading, and writing skills in a fun, engaging way.
Plastic Easter eggs are inexpensive, easy to find, and surprisingly versatile. Whether you hide them around your classroom, take students outside, or toss them into a baby pool for a quick challenge, they can instantly add excitement to your lessons.
Grab some plastic easter eggs and let’s get to work. We are digging into 5 ideas to use plastic Easter eggs in your middle school ELA classroom this spring.
Hide sentences inside plastic eggs and let students search for them around the classroom or outside.
Once students collect several eggs, they sort the sentences into simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
This activity pairs perfectly with our Sentence Structure Digital Sort Activity for additional practice or review.
Assign each part of speech a different egg color.
Students collect one egg of each color before writing a short story or poem using every word they found.
You can hide the eggs or simply mix them together in a baby pool or basket for students to search through.
This activity pairs well with our Parts of Speech Digital Sort Activity.
Before a quiz or standardized test, fill eggs with encouraging messages like:
Let each student choose one egg before the assessment as a fun way to build confidence and reduce test anxiety.
After reading a paired passage, students hunt for eggs containing reading prompts like:
Students return to their passage to answer each prompt before searching for another egg.
This activity works especially well with our Paired Passages.
Fill different colored eggs with story elements like characters, settings, conflicts, plot twists, and writing challenges.
Students collect one egg from each category and use them to write an original story.
Since every student gets a different combination, every story turns out differently.
Plastic Easter eggs are a simple way to add movement, creativity, and collaboration to your middle school ELA classroom.
Whether students are reviewing sentence structure, practicing parts of speech, analyzing paired passages, encouraging one another before testing, or writing creative stories, these activities make spring learning memorable while reinforcing important ELA skills.
