Top 12 Easter Books for Kids

Our top 12 Easter and springtime books:

Easter is one week away and there is still time to order a new book or two. These twelve are some of our absolute favorites, both in Honeybee and in our family. My daughters are 7 and 12 and really enjoy holiday picture books. They like to divide them up so they each have a couple next to their bed and then often trade back and forth so they each get a turn with the top favorites. Its very common for me to gather them up from their bedside tables on preschool days so I have some fun books to read to my class too!

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes: This is the number one book requested by my daughters and its a treasured book from my childhood too.

The Easter Egg by Jan Brett: We love Jan Brett books around here, and the preschoolers love watching the scenes that unfold in the side panels of each page.

Humbug Rabbit by Lorna Balian: This is the number two requested book. We love all of Balian’s books and this one is charming and clever and has two stories going on at the same time. If you don’t have this book already, this Easter is a great time to pick it up!

Rechenka’s Eggs by Patricia Polacco: This is my favorite Easter/Springtime book. I love the classic illustrations, an introduction to beautiful Ukrainian eggs and the darling storyline. We make pysanky eggs each year because of this book!

Here Comes the Easter Cat: We don’t own this book but enjoy it from the library in Honeybee each year. All the books in this series are funny and cute.

The Little Rabbit: The Easter Bunny brought this book a couple years ago and we all loved the illustrations and sweet spring story.

Yoga Bunny: This book is on its way to us for Easter morning. It looks like a great addition to our easter picture book collection!

Bunny’s Book Club: This isn’t about easter but the bunny connection is strong. I love the illustrations and the kids love the story of a bunny who discovers the wonders of the library.

Bunny Roo, I Love You: This is a sweet little board book for the littlest one in the family. We have some board books that come out each year and this one, illustrated by Teagan White, would have been perfect when my girls were younger. Everything Teagen White touches is gold!

I Am A Bunny by Richard Scarry: This is the first Easter book I bought for my daughter and she still loves to read it, 12 years later! It’s a classic.

A Tale for Easter by Tasha Tudor: We love all of Tasha Tudor’s books and this one is a favorite for sure.

The Easter Egg Artists: This is considered a vintage book now, and it is my favorite from childhood. The illustrations are sweet and the story is inspiring.

If you have Overdrive through your local library, there are many easter books available now to read as an ebook or audiobook. They have thousands of picture books and if you use the filter with your search, you can narrow the results down to children’s books that are available now. We just did a search and found many of our favorites and also plenty of books we haven’t seen before that we want to read.

Don’t see your family’s favorite book on our list? Please comment to add it. I’m always looking for new favorites and I hope you choose a fun new book to add to your Easter book collection this year!

Easter Basket Gift Ideas

Its time to make sure you have ordered what you need for Easter Baskets! I’m linking a few of my favorite basket stuffers below, and as of today, all can be delivered in time for Easter if you order soon.

• An Easter or Springtime puzzle. We love eeBoo puzzles and they are usually available on amazon. This Beatrix Potter puzzle is cute too.

• This Bunny Lego Set is quick to assemble and cute, but also has pieces that would be fun to build other shapes or animals with in the future.

• These spy pens are so fun. They use invisible ink that is only visible with the light built in to the end of the pen. This is a big pack that can be divided up between the baskets or the extras can be saved for later.

• We love Sleeping Queens and Wig Out! and both are compact games that would fit nicely into an Easter Basket. They are also both fun for kids and adults, so you know the Easter Bunny is delivering something that you won’t dread playing.

• Seed packets are fun to add to an easter basket and most grocery stores are carrying them right now. Add some in to your next grocery delivery! I give my girls seeds that are quick to germinate and easy to harvest: Radishes, Beets, Carrots and flowers like Sunflowers and Zinnias are great to start with.

• Don’t have a garden? A potted house plant like a succulent or jade plant are pretty hardy. A potted bulb like a tulip could also be fun for kids to care for.

• Water Beads are always a hit around here. After we play with them inside, they get added to potions outside, get frozen in the freezer and added to our water table outside, add little plastic animals or plastic easter eggs and the time flies by. Don’t have a place to keep them outside? A plastic tub full of water beads and an empty bathtub could work!

• Gathering a Garden game by eeBoo. Our girls got this game for Easter a few years ago and really loved it. A great game to play in the Spring! Good for ages 4+.

• Garden Gloves and Tools. We started out with cute cotton gloves when my kids were little and quickly moved on to these for more waterproof-ness. They also like to have their own tools that look and feel like my garden tools, and this set lasted us a long time. Plus, they double as beach tools!

• Don’t forget the chocolate bunny! Add them to your grocery order asap before they run out. Amazon is almost out of them already.

• We always give a new book for Easter. Sophie Mouse is a sweet series that is both a good read aloud and a great beginning chapter book. The pictures help predict harder words and the stories are wholesome and charming. I love it when we find a long series that we all enjoy! We also gave Sonya’s Chickens by Phoebe Wahl and this year my oldest is getting The Secret Lake.

• Rainboots are always useful and these ones from London Littles are darling. They are having a sale right now too! We’ve given kids umbrellas like this bunny one in the past too. A great combo for puddle stomping.

• New art supplies would round things out nicely. I order all my supplies from Blick now, with the exception of liquid watercolors from Discount School Supply. Blick has a great selection of brushes, sketchpads, paints and watercolor paper that are all great for kids and adults. Just choose student grade or search for kids supplies in the search bar.

Start your Easter Grass!

If you haven’t grown your own Easter grass, this year is a great time to start! We use wheat grass in our Easter baskets and as a decoration around the house in the Spring.

You will need:

Bowls, Egg Cups, Flower Pots or baskets made waterproof using aluminum foil and plastic wrap

potting soil

wheat berries (order online) or Bob’s Red Mill from local grocery or health food store

spray bottle with water

plastic wrap

I get our wheat berries in bulk at our grocery store. We use about 2 cups of seed for 3 baskets and a few extra pots for decoration.

Soak the seeds overnight to help speed up the sprouting process.

If you’re using a basket, line it with aluminum foil followed by a layer of plastic wrap. Fold down the foil below the edge of the basket so it doesn’t show above the soil. Fill with soil to the edge of the foil. Choose a plate or platter to put under the basket in case the foil fails and leaks.

Fill pots/cups/containers with soil just below the top edge.

Sprinkle a layer of wheat berries (seeds) on the soil. Try to keep them in a single layer while also covering the soil as best you can.

Using a spray bottle, spray the seeds with water to get wet, not soggy.

Cover each container with plastic wrap and place in a warm, dark place. Check daily to watch for sprouts and to spray with water.

When you see green blades of grass, remove the plastic wrap and move to a sunny window. Keep spraying with water each day.

When the grass is about 5 inches tall, trim back to about 4 inches so it continues to grow straight and tall. With daily watering and good light, it will continue to grow for a couple weeks!

Some people juice wheatgrass but we like to feed it to our chickens after easter. They love it!