It’s nearly Easter and what better way to celebrate than by doing an Easter Egg hunt with the kids in your class. Learn all about Easter and then play some fun games to learn about prepositions and how to use them. This Prepositions EFL ESL lesson plan will last about one hour and is suitable for primary aged kids of about 6 to 10 years old. You can do this lesson in class with your students or alternatively, I’ll be giving you some ideas if you are teaching online too. So get your egg collecting baskets and see if you can spot the Easter Bunny, it’s time for a Prepositions EFL ESL lesson plan and an Easter Egg Hunt!
For this Prepositions EFL ESL lesson plan, you will need:
Depending whether you are doing this lesson in a classroom or online, you will need mini Easter eggs or Easter egg flashcards or a whiteboard and pens to draw Easter eggs and their hiding places. You’ll also need some kind of box or container and paper and coloring markers.
Before the lesson, hide different colored eggs or flashcards in different places in the classroom, garden or playground. If you’re doing this lesson online, prepare a drawing on the whiteboard of a garden and draw eggs hidden in different places in the garden.
Songs and videos:
If you want songs about prepositions, you can find all my favorite ones in this post. For this Easter themed Prepositions EFL ESL lesson plan, we’ll be using On In Under By from Maple Leaf Learning and also singing a song to the tune of the Finger Family song.
Introduce your lesson
Start your lesson with your normal Hello routine or use one of my favorite Hello songs or warm ups. Then get out an Easter egg or a flashcard and your box and put the egg in the box. Ask the kids where the egg is and teach them that it is in the box. Do the same thing with on, under and by.
Sing a Prepositions song and play a game
Once everyone understands the four different prepositions, play a game using the On, In, Under, By song. Sing the song while you move the egg into the different positions around the box and then when you say “where is the egg?”, put it either on, in, under or by the box and get the children to tell you where it is. Let everyone have a turn doing this while the others sing.
Let’s hide some Easter eggs
Draw a picture of a garden on the board. What can you see? Flowers, trees, a house maybe, a pond, some play equipment like a swing or slide. Get the kids to come and draw objects too and as they do, learn the names together. When this is done, start adding some different colored eggs to the picture in different locations. Get the children to tell you where to draw them. Under the tree, behind the shed, by the slide. Then put them in pairs and make them ask each other questions: “where is the red egg?” “it’s on the tree”.
Sing an egg hunting song
To the tune of the Finger family song, sing a very simple song:
Easter Egg, Easter Egg, where are you?
Here I am, here I am, I'm under the tree.
Change the location, pointing to the picture each time to show the class.
Prepare for an Egg Hunt
Let the kids work in pairs and give each pair a piece of paper and pens. If the children are able to write reasonably well, they are going to write what color eggs they find and where they are. If they can’t write, they can draw a quick picture of the eggs they find and where they are. Tell them to leave the eggs where they are for the moment and just record what they find.
We’re going an Easter Egg Hunt
It’s time to hunt for Easter eggs! Let the children hunt wherever you have hidden the eggs or flashcards and record what they find on their list. As you’re looking sing the Easter Egg, where are you song. With very small kids, you could do this in a group and let them take turns finding the eggs. If you are teaching online, show the children the picture of the garden you prepared before the lesson and let them take turns describing where the eggs are as you sing the song.
What did you find?
When you’ve finished hunting for eggs, get the class back together and ask them what they found. Where are the eggs hidden? Get them to tell you where all the different eggs are and describe their location. If you want, as each child tells you where an egg is, someone else can go and get it and bring it back. If they’re chocolate eggs, you can then distribute them to the class.
Conclusion
If you’ve still got some time left, ask the children to draw their own garden with eggs hidden in it and describe where they are. Then finish the lesson with your usual Goodbye routine or use one of my favorite Goodbye songs.
I hope you enjoyed this Prepositions EFL ESL lesson and Easter Egg Hunt. If you want to see some more of my lesson plans, you can find them here as well as lots of other teaching ideas and songs. To stay up to date with GoogooEnglish, please follow our Facebook page or sign up for email updates below. Best wishes for Easter to all of you!