KS2 Easter Holiday Pack - Week 1

It's week 1 of the Easter holidays! Here are some spring activities to get stuck into:

• Easter crafts
• Write a spring-themed poem
• Play Race Across the Continents
• Go explore what spring has to offer in nature
• Find out more about how spring affects plants and animals.

Easter is a festival traditionally celebrated by Christians to mark Jesus rising from the dead three days after he died on the cross on Good Friday. Easter also marks the end of Lent, a period of fasting for some Christians.

When is Easter celebrated?

The date of Easter Sunday changes every year. In 2025, Easter Sunday is on the 20th of April.

How is Easter celebrated?

Christians, often attend a church service on Easter Sunday. Some people also attend a service on Good Friday.

Lots of people eat chocolate Easter eggs or go on Easter egg hunts. The egg represents new life and rebirth.

They also eat hot cross buns. The cross represents Jesus dying on the cross.

Using scrap card and paints, you can create your own 3D spring deer portrait.

Stay active in the holidays with these Supermovers song and dance routines and brush up on your timetables at the same time!

BBC Bitesize's Parents' Toolkit and The Regenerators have lots of tips for exploring this time of year. Look at the links below for some ideas about how you can explore during the spring and what you might find in nature.

Remember to ask an adult's permission to explore.

There is a well-known poem by William Wordsworth about spring called I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

Using the first two verses of this poem as inspiration, can you write a two verse rhyming poem about Easter and spring?

What comes to mind when you think about Easter and spring?

Find out more about spring and how it affects plants and animals.

Now that winter is over, it's time to travel!

Help the team of brave adventurers race their way across the world, by practising your geography skills and learning about the natural world.