Easter Egg | Jan Brett Book Activities and Craftivity

Easter Egg Jan Brett book activities unit with literacy printables, reading companion activities, lesson ideas, and a craft for Kindergarten and First Grade

EASTER EGG by JAN BRETT

Jan Brett's The Easter Egg is a great read aloud book to use in Kindergarten and First Grade to teach about helping others and doing your best, with an Easter theme.

THE EASTER EGG BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

In Jan Brett's The Easter Egg, Hoppi the bunny is determined to win the Easter egg decorating contest. The winner gets to help the Easter Bunny hide the eggs on Easter morning!

Hoppi sets off to gather materials for his project. As he searches, he finds that the other rabbits are working on their eggs for the Easter egg contest...and their work is both creative and amazing!

Every rabbit he meets working on their Easter egg is quick to give Hoppi some supplies to use for his own Easter egg project. Not only did Hoppi receive supplies but also words of encouragement and support.

Hoppi soon realized that making a beautiful Easter egg was a lot harder than he thought it would be. He changed his focus from winning the Easter egg contest to decorating an Easter egg that he would be proud of.

But then Hoppi finds a robin's egg that has fallen out of its nest. He sits on the egg to keep it warm, so that the mother robin can stay on her nest and tend to the other eggs. Hoppi cares for the robin egg all night.

The Easter Bunny comes by to collect the entries for the Easter egg decorating contest. He is impressed by the beautiful and creative work that has been done. But Hoppi had an egg to be proud of, keeping mother robin's egg warm and safe until her baby hatched. Hoppi and the Easter Bunny went off to hide the Easter eggs together.

The Easter Egg, paired with these book companion activities, will keep your students engaged as they work on their literacy learning.

This book study is packed with activities that will help your students work on story elements, character traits, writing activities, story retell, making text to self connections, vocabulary, making inferences, problem and solution, author's purpose, reading comprehension, and more!

This book study unit can be used for whole class learning, during small group guided reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!

This book companion will save you tons of time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

THE EASTER EGG CRAFT

The unit includes a craft, where students can write about what life would be like if they were the Easter bunny. The activity makes a cute Easter bulletin board display, to showcase student learning.