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This post has been co-written with Ben Wolfson, a full-time educator and assistant principal in the USA.
Even though it’s not a holiday that generates a day off school, Easter is a fun time in your kindergarten classroom for your students. The promise of untold chocolate riches and scavenger hunts for eggs drives up the excitement levels, so it makes sense to capture some of this energy in your academic centers. This fun missing number eggs game is a a good way for your students to practice their number sequencing skills (both single and double digits) as well as getting to talk about all Easter egg chocolate that they get to eat.
Sequencing Numbers In Kindergarten
Your main goal as a math teacher in kindergarten is to help students develop a sense of the number system. You’ll work on foundational skills like learning the names of the numbers (including those pesky teens!), how to form the numbers correctly with a pencil, and how to accurately count a group of objects using these number words. The next level of skill is to have a concept of how numbers relate to each other, which means that you’ll start talking about the relative size and order of numbers. Kindergarten students have to learn how to order a series of sequential numbers, and this missing number eggs task gives your students plenty of opportunities at this skill. You can have students say the numbers out loud to build their procedural memory for the number order or turn it into a clip card activity so that they can check their own answers to gain that immediate reinforcement that’s essential for learning.
Preparing Easter Egg Missing Number Worksheets
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Extension Activities For Find The Missing Number Work
The missing number worksheet packet is aimed at the end of your unit as it requires students to find a missing number from the middle of a sequence. However, there are plenty of ways to use Easter egg missing number worksheets to scaffold and extend your student’s learning:
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Hide the eggs – part of the fun of Easter is looking for eggs, so you can turn this missing number eggs center into a scavenger hunt by hiding the answer eggs around your classroom. Your students will need to work out which number they need to find before they’re allowed to start hunting.
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Sequence them all – for students who are struggling with the concept of magnitude as they sequence numbers, you should start off by cutting all the eggs out from each missing number worksheet. Your students can then practice putting all the numbers into order. You can scaffold this activity further by taking pictures of (or having actual objects) piles of mini eggs that represent each number. Students will quickly recognize that they need to arrange the numbers according to how big the pile is.
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Write their own answer – finally, you can use this Easter egg missing number activity to push those students who mastered it on the first turn. Start by having students write the missing number themselves given a selection of possible answers, then remove the possible answers to see if they can work out the missing number eggs by themselves.
Like this? Then you’ll love my 10 Easter Themed Literacy and Math Centers. These easy-prep games will get your students working on letters, phonics, numbers and more!
Games included:
1) Easter Train Letter Strips – Fill in the next 2 letters in the alphabet. You could also use them for handwriting practice or for writing out the matching lowercase.
2) Easter Rhyming Clip Cards- 24 included
3) Easter Spin and Cover Letters – Alphabet is divided into 5 mats so this would be a great literacy center for small groups.
4) Easter Vowel Sorting – Kids will sort the eggs into the correct vowel baskets. 8 objects per vowel included.
5) Bunny Burrows Game – This game comes with a song poster and letter cards. You can use this to practice letter sounds, beginning sounds of objects, etc
6) Easter Ten Frame Mats – Use this with playdough to form the numbers + ‘eggs’ in the ten frame or you could also use real chocolate eggs for counting practice.
7) Easter Spin and Rainbow Write – Kids will spin the wheel and write the number it lands on. If it lands on the same number twice, they will use a different crayon/marker so that each number becomes a rainbow.
8) Easter Pick and Cover Numbers to 20 – Mats for 1-10, 11-20 and 1-20 are included together with the number cards. Print them out, cut into individual number cards and have your little ones learn number recognition.
9) Easter Color Clip Cards – Match the color of the Easter bunny’s egg and carrot.
10) Easter Bunny Math – 12 cards each provided for addition to 10 and subtraction from to 10 plus a recording sheet for their answers.
Check it out for more ready-to-go fun!
Easter Themed Tools For Your Classroom:
Other Free Easter Printables You’ll Love:
1) Easter Egg Tracing Lines – This simple preschool fine motor activity will help develop your students’ fine motor muscle strength and allow them to practice correct pencil grip.
2) Easter Bunny Sight Words – Kids will actively try to balance the egg on the spoon and fish it out of the ‘jail’. For each egg that escapes, they need to read a sight word then the egg will be safe.
3) Easter Printable Worksheets Pack – 50 pages of free Easter-themed printable worksheets for kids including a variety of literacy, math, and fine motor activities.
4) Easter Egg Patterns – A colorful Easter activity to teach the early math skill of recognizing patterns.
5) Count The Bunnies 1-10 – Kids will surely have a hop-py time counting up to 10 bunnies in a line.
6) Bunny Burrows Game – Really fun small group or circle time game that works on learning letter sounds.
7) Bunny Spin and Cover (Numbers 1-5) – This simple number recognition printable is great fun for preschoolers and just in time for Easter!
8) Bunny Carrot Match-Up – Your preschooler will love this numbers and colors matching activity with an Easter Bunny theme!
9) Bunny Addition to 10 – Your preschooler can practice doing some addition to 10 sums using the adorable bunny number slider that comes with the worksheet.
10) Easter Bunny Simple Sums Addition & Subtraction – This Easter Bunny math activity helps students solve basic sums by having a visual representation they can use to count, instead of just numbers.
Fun Books For Easter:
Browse My Most Popular Math Printables:
1) Parking Cars Tracing Lines – More than 10 different tracing line patterns to choose from, all of which help with pencil control.
2) Scarecrow Arrange By Size – 3 different scarecrow-themed image sets that they will arrange from smallest to biggest.
3) Bumblebee Addition Game – Solve the sum and help the bee land on the correct flower!
4) Farm Shapes Mats – Use playdough, pompoms, stickers etc to learn 2D shapes.
5) Popsicle Stick Number Formation – Kids will love forming the numbers 1 to 10 when ice cream and popsicles are involved!
6) Valentines Printable Worksheets Pack – 50 pages of mixed literacy and math activities.
7) Zoo Animals Number Puzzle Strips – Complete these cute puzzles and learn the numbers 1 to 20.
8) Counting Colorful Bugs – This printable book will help kids count to 10 while also learning about color words.
9) Humpty Dumpty Numbers – In this printable game, your students will practice number recognition using 1 dice or simple addition when using 2 dice.
10) Build A Number Santa – Match the number to the correct number word, tally mark and domino to form a Santa Claus
