Performing Easter puzzles in kindergarten

What you need:

• Easter story
• Painting stuff
• Eggs
• Craft materials
• Alarm bell or hooter
• Prices

Preparations for an Easter puzzle in kindergarten

children love Easter without really knowing why. in the kindergarten you have the opportunity to introduce the children to this background in a playful way in the form of an Easter riddle.

• If you plan in four weeks to prepare for Easter, you can provide some information every day without it becoming too much for the children. You should repeat everything several times so that it memorizes well.
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• During the first week of preparation, begin reading and explaining the Easter story of Jesus Christ to the children. After you've read the story, in the following days you can introduce the people the story is about. Have the children paint or do handicrafts on the topic.
• Next, you can look into the topic of Easter eggs. Explain something to the children. Easter eggs with this name have been around since the 17th century. Century. The egg itself has long been considered a symbol of fertility. On Easter Sunday an egg was smashed to represent the broken burial chamber from which Jesus emerged as new life. The eggs are also colorfully painted for the sake of symbolism. For example, red represents the blood of Christ that has been shed. Green means innocence, yellow means enlightenment, orange means power. Explain to the children what the colors mean and let them work on them.
• The Easter bunny is almost as old and deserves a handicraft or painting session in the following. It can also be found in the 17th Century again. It took some time for him to prevail against other animals. Until the last century, animals such as the fox or the stork also brought the Easter eggs. The reason the rabbit won the race is because of its extraordinarily high fertility. It is the first animal to reproduce in spring and was already a symbol of fertility in ancient Rome.


Easter in kindergarten

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• In the second and third week of preparation, pass on some new information to the children every day and repeat the things and stories already mentioned. Always combine this with the opportunity to do handicrafts, paint or play actively. In this way, the children learn with all their senses and remain attentive to the matter at hand.
• In the last week before Easter, which takes place in kindergarten, prepare the children for the Easter puzzle by asking small puzzles in the group. Ask the questions two to a maximum of three times.

The event of the Easter riddle

1. If you have the opportunity, have the Easter story act out or read it again on Easter Day. This way the children can relate to it more quickly.
2. Before starting the puzzle, put several puzzle teams together. There should be no more than three to a maximum of four teams so that it remains clear. Now the children are selected into the groups by lottery. Give the groups names or colors associated with a symbol.
3. Each group gets a horn or alarm bell.
4. To avoid arguments, assign a security guard to the group who will ring the alarm bell when requested by the group.
5. A kindergarten teacher takes over the leadership of the puzzle. She asks the questions and decides who raised the alarm first.
6. After the question has been asked, the children have two minutes to think and answer the question. As soon as a group is sure, the security guard has to sound the alarm. Whoever rings the bell first can say the answer. If you give the answer too early, you will be deducted one point. If a group gives an incorrect answer, the group that rang the alarm second is allowed to answer.
7. If only one group has rung the bell, there is another two minutes' guess time for the others. Then read the question again.
8. The group with the most correct answers wins the puzzle. The participants are chosen to be the Easter kings and receive a prize.
9. The participants in the other groups should receive a small consolation prize as a reward for participating.

Examples of Easter puzzle questions in kindergarten

1. What is celebrated at Easter? - The resurrection of Jesus Christ.
2. Who was the first to see Jesus after the resurrection? - Mary Magdalene.
3. What was blocking the entrance to that dig of Jesus? - A big stone.
4. Why did Jesus rise from the dead in the first place? -Because he is God's Son and God is stronger than death.
5. What does the egg have to do with Easter? - The eggs are a symbol of new life.
6. Why is there the Easter Bunny? - The rabbit is the symbol of fertility and new life.
7. What do green eggs mean? - Green is the color that stands for innocence.
8. What does the color red mean? - Red stands for the blood of Jesus.