Montessori Monday – Easter Tree Sorting, Math, and Decorating Activity

Today’s activity has sentimental value for me. My husband and I were given the Easter tree from my mother-in-law years ago when our kids were little. I’ve saved it through a number of moves, and I’ve used it here to create a Montessori-inspired Easter activity for preschoolers.

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Montessori-Inspired Easter Tree Sorting, Math, and Decorating Activity

Decorating an Easter tree can be a popular practical life activity similar to a Montessori Christmas tree activity. I’ve added some additional steps today to work on extra skills along with the decorating-a-tree activity.

You can purchase an Easter tree from a craft store or on Amazon, or you can easily make one using a branch you find on a nature hike. I found the small Easter egg ornaments at Michaels craft store. I also found the bunny egg tongs at Michaels. The bunny tongs aren’t essential, but they’re fun and add an additional practical life activity.

For the activity, I used a free printable, Easter egg counting mats 1-5, from Pink Polka Dots & Pre-K. I used a large plastic tray and rug from Montessori Services.

I would have the child use the bunny tongs to pick up the eggs from the bowl and lay them out on the rug. The tongs are great practice using the grip and movement the child needs for cutting with a scissors.

Then I would lay out the number strips in the proper order. I’d recommend the child just use fingers to sort the eggs by color from the rug to the number strips.

When the eggs are sorted by color onto the number strips, I’d have the child place the eggs onto the tree one color at a time. If you tell the child that it’s best to space out the eggs from the same color, you’ll help the child learn a skill that will be useful when decorating Christmas trees (or any trees) in the future.

Although children in Montessori education put away their work before placing it back on the shelf, this is an activity that’s nice to be admired as a decoration. You could allow children to leave the tree decorated at the end. The tray would still need to be returned to the shelf, but it would include the decorated tree. When another child chooses to do the activity, he or she could remove the Easter eggs from the tree and place them in the glass bowl at the beginning of the activity … before going through each of the other steps.

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All my Easter posts (updated 2023):

• Montessori-Inspired Easter Egg Sound Set for Preschoolers
• Montessori-Inspired Easter Activities
• Free Spring Printables and Montessori-Inspired Spring Math Activities
• Homeschool Lent and Easter
• Free Easter Egg Printables and Montessori-Inspired Easter Egg Activities
• Easter Egg Rainbow Practical Life and Sensorial Activity
• Easter Tree Sorting, Math, and Decorating Activity
• Montessori-Inspired Easter Egg Sound Shakers for Babies and Toddlers
• Montessori-Inspired Snacktime Subtraction Activity
• 20+ Easter Phonics Activities
• Free Easter Songs and Rhymes for Circle Time
• Montessori-Inspired Easter Activities with Spielgaben {Free Printables}
• Recycle Plastic Eggs with an Open and Close Basket
• Free Art Appreciation Resources for a Mystery of Easter Tray
• Sweet Easter Egg Kindness Project with the Kindness Elves
• Montessori-Inspired Fun with Easter Eggs and Oviparous Animals
• How to Use Resurrection Eggs the Montessori Way
• Free Oviparous Animal Printables and Montessori-Inspired Oviparous Animal Activities
• Free Egg Do-a-Dot Phonics Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
• Free Rabbit Printables and Montessori-Inspired Rabbit Activities
• Free Rabbit and Kitten Do-a-Dot Printables (Montessori-Inspired Phonics Instant Download)
• Free Rabbit Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download),
• Baby Animal Themed, Editable Name and Word Tracing Pack
• Kids’ Easter Activities Pinterest Board

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