Easter CVC Word Activity for Kindergarten: A Hands-On Phonics Favorite

If you’re looking for a fun, hands-on Easter CVC word activity that gets your kindergarten students excited about phonics, this one is always a hit in my classroom! Combining plastic Easter eggs, magnetic letters, and our downloadable recording sheets, this activity gives students meaningful practice with CVC words while keeping learning playful and engaging.

This activity works beautifully for literacy centers, small groups, intervention, or even morning work during the spring when you'll probably have lots of plastic eggs handy. My family doesn't celebrate Easter, but we totally love an egg hunt!

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How To Play This Easter CVC Word Activity:

This Easter CVC word activity focuses on building and recording consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words using hands-on materials. Each worksheet is sorted by middle vowel sound (short a, e, i, o, or u) and includes 8 picture prompts, each displayed inside an Easter egg shape.

Students “crack” open plastic eggs to find magnetic letters, unscramble them to build a CVC word, and then record the word next to the matching picture on their worksheet.

It’s simple to set up, easy for students to understand, and packed with phonics practice.

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Materials Needed

To prep this activity, you’ll need:

• Plastic Easter eggs - I get them from Target in spring and they last for years.
• Magnetic letters -These are my favorite, used them for 15 years and the vowels are a different color!
  • (3 letters per egg to spell a CVC word-8 of each vowel to make a set)
• Printed worksheets from forwardwithfun.com (sorted by middle vowel sound)
• Pencils or crayons

👉 You can grab the ready-to-use worksheets by scrolling to the bottom of the page now!

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How to Set Up the Activity

1. Choose the vowel sound you want students to practice (short a, e, i, o, or u).
2. Print the corresponding worksheet.
3. For each picture on the page, place the matching CVC word letters inside a plastic egg.
4. Mix up the eggs and place them in a basket or bin. Kids can work directly from the basket OR for the best version of this activity, hide the CVC Easter eggs in the classroom first!

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Easter CVC Word Activity Student Instructions

Here’s how I explain it to my students:

1. Pick an egg and crack it open.
2. Take out the magnetic letters inside the egg.
3. Unscramble the letters to make a CVC word -vowels go in the middle!
4. Say the sounds the letters make and blend them together.
5. Is the word you read a real word? If it's not, switch the first and last letter and try again. If it is, go on to the next step.
6. Find the matching picture on your worksheet.
7. Write the CVC word next to the picture.
8. Repeat until all pictures are completed.

Because the worksheets are sorted by middle vowel sound, students get extra focused practice with short vowels while working independently. This could also be a great whole group exercise too! Draw numbers or name sticks to make choosing who gets to crack the egg more fair.

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Why This Easter CVC Word Activity Works

As a teacher, I love activities that check multiple boxes—and this one does!

• Builds phonemic awareness
• Reinforces letter-sound correspondence
• Strengthens decoding and encoding skills with CVC Words
• Keeps students actively engaged
• Uses critical thinking as kids determine if they've made a real or nonsense word.
• Bonus is that as children manipulate the plastic eggs, they're building fine motor skills.

The Easter Egg theme adds excitement, but the real magic is how much meaningful learning is happening while students think they’re just “playing with eggs.” Rather than reading a word off a slip of paper, each child is creating the word -it's beginning, middle, and end. They'll notice patterns like each word has a vowel in the middle!

To keep using your new favorite magnetic letters check out another favorite CVC word activity: CVC Muffin Pan Words!

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Supporting English Language Learners (ELLs)

This Easter CVC word activity is especially supportive for English Language Learners because it:

• Uses clear picture supports to reinforce vocabulary
• Encourages students to say each word aloud
• Provides hands-on letter manipulation
• Focuses on one vowel sound at a time, ensuring extra pronunciation practice
• Allows for easy teacher modeling and partner work

To support ALL students, I often:

• Model at least one word before independent work
• Have students repeat the word after building it
• Ask them to use the word in a simple sentence
• Write the steps on the board with little drawings to refer back to

These small supports make a big difference! I have noticed that short vowels "e" and "i" are the toughest for my young English Language Learners, now known as Multilingual Learners. These two sounds in particular often get switched due to their pronunciation in many other languages.

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Common Core Standards Addressed

This activity aligns with the following Common Core State Standards for Kindergarten:

RF.K.2 – Phonological Awareness

• RF.K.2.d: Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in CVC words

RF.K.3 – Phonics and Word Recognition

• RF.K.3.b: Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels
• RF.K.3.c: Read common high-frequency words by sight
• RF.K.3.d: Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters

L.K.2 – Conventions of Standard English

• L.K.2.d: Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships

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Grab the Easter CVC Word Activity Worksheets and Save Time

If you want this activity ready to go without extra prep, you can find the printable Easter CVC word worksheets here:

They’re perfect for centers, small groups, intervention, or take-home practice—and your students will LOVE cracking eggs while building their reading skills.