Easter is just around the corner! That means folks everywhere will be busy dyeing eggs, hunting for them, and swapping Easter baskets while schools are also busy with fun activities like students and teachers easter shirts. 

This year, Easter lands on Sunday, April 20, 2025. With a history spanning over 2,000 years, this celebration has deep biblical connections, and for many, it marks the arrival of spring. Check out more about the history of Easter. Plus, don’t miss these fun activities for elementary and middle school kids. They’ll enjoy themselves while boosting their reading, writing, and STEM skills. (Keep in mind that some activities might not suit all students due to their religious views.)

These fun Easter activities for school will definitely get your students excited just like how excited you are in wearing your favorite teacher shirts at school.  You can use them in the classroom or pass them along to parents and caregivers for some at-home fun with their kids.

DIY Egg Dye

If you've ever colored eggs for Easter, you've joined in on a tradition that's been around for ages. (Check out the fascinating history of egg decorating, with examples dating back thousands of years.) This year, skip the pre-packaged dye kits and whip up your own colors using natural ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen. You can mix the colors at home (or get some help from parents and caregivers) and store them in glass jars or any container with a lid. Have the kids bring in their own hardboiled eggs to class, and just make sure the eggs are at room temperature before they start dyeing!

DIY Shirts and design it with Easter Theme

While it is fun to color white eggs, it is also fun to design student and teacher t shirts. You can hand them some inspirations where they can paint using different art materials or even use their hands to paint it as well. For as long as they can express their own creativity, it will surely be memorable for them. 

Where's the Egg? 

This is definitely one of the most popular and favorite as well come Easter. Before your students come to school, find the opportunity to hide those eggs in different areas in the classroom and when make it time pressured when you've finally start the game so that it will be more exciting!

Story Time

This is the perfect time to wear your teacher literature shirt because you can have that much needed story book time with your students. You can read them stories and tales about Easter, find books with illustrations so that they can enjoy it more. After this activity, you can have a discussion on what are their favorite parts of the book and what lesson they might have learned about it. 

Most of the time, Easter falls around the start of spring and people everywhere enjoys basking in the sun and celebrating different kinds of activities. Also, don't forget, come April, it's Autism Awareness month. If you are teaching gifted children or students with special needs, wear that cool teacher autism shirts to inspire others or your co-teachers and their family members. You can also engage them with fun activities listed above and more like making fun easter masks! 

Enjoy this wonderful season and make fun memories because being a teacher is not just a job but a calling. A mission for you to teach the younger generation and have a positive impact on them as they grow old.