How to Have an Easter Egg Hunt in Music Class!

This is a great activity for the week before Easter! You’ll see there are options for a full class activity or a center activity.

Grab some plastic Easter Eggs like THESE (or see if a teacher has some you can borrow before they need them for their class hunts.)

Put rhythm or melody cards in each egg like this:

For centers you need about a dozen eggs depending how long you plan for students to stay at each center.

Here’s an example of 1st grade center prep: (These rhythm cards can be found in this rhythm game. I printed them half size so they fit easily.)

And second grade center prep: (These rhythm cards can be found in this rhythm game. I printed them half size so they fit easily.)

If holding a full class egg hunt, you’ll need at least as many eggs as your biggest class, but it’s totally fine to duplicate the cards inside the eggs.

For an egg hunt:

Option 1:
Hide the eggs before students enter the room.
Pro tip: use the class before the one doing the egg hunt to hide them ‘in plain sight’ for you. If you have a 5th grade class, you can ask them to each hide an egg in a place a kindergartner could find it. Give them structure like “waist level or below, easy reach, not near the ukuleles etc.

Option 2:
Realistically, you may not have time to pre-hide the eggs. Option 2 is to have the students hide the eggs during class before the hunt. Have half of the class hide on the left side of the class, half on the right. They can each go hide an egg (again, ask give them some guidelines) and then return to their spot and put their head down/eyes closed. Tell them it’s more fun if they don’t look where anyone else is hiding their egg. (Really it doesn’t matter – they are learning either way!) When it’s time to hunt the eggs, have them search on the opposite side of the room from where they hid their egg to make it more of a hunt.

When it’s time for the hunt, tell each student to find 1 egg (unless you hid 2-3 per student) and then sit back down. After everyone has found eggs, they can count the rhythm/sing the solfege that is inside the egg for a neighbor, small group or class. You can walk around the room and look over their shoulder to asses how they do.

If there is time, you can play again using Option 2 – where they hide their own eggs. It can be tricky for littles to close the eggs, but usually enough of the kids can do it to help each other. If they can’t quite close it all the way tell them to do their best.

For an centers:

Simply leave a dozen or so eggs at each center. students can count/sing the cards inside the eggs as they open them OR they can use instruments to play a rhythm or manipulatives to draw a melody.

Hope you are able to have fun Easter Egg hunts or Easter Egg Centers with your Elementary Music Class!

Looking for more easter activities? Check out our Easter BINGO and Easter Worksheets!

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