Easter Vocabulary Worksheets – Basket, Eggs, Egg Hunt

All 36 words

Easter day 12

basket A carrier woven from thin strips, often with a handle. She lined her basket with paper grass.
bonnet An old style of hat, held on with ribbons. Grandma showed us a photo of herself in a bonnet.
bunny What small children often call a rabbit. A bunny sat very still at the edge of the yard.
chick A new little bird, like the young of a hen. The chick slept under a warm lamp.
decorate To put patterns or pretty things on something. They decorate the eggs with stickers.
dye To turn a thing a new color by using a colored liquid. We will dye six eggs blue.
Easter egg A colored or chocolate egg given for the holiday. He found an Easter egg under the bench.
egg hunt A game of looking for eggs placed out of sight. The egg hunt starts at ten o'clock.
jelly bean A bite-size candy, firm outside and soft inside. I saved the red jelly bean for last.
parade A crowd moving one way together to celebrate in public. The parade passed our corner at noon.
pastel Light and gentle in color, not bright. The baskets came in pastel blue and yellow.
tradition An old habit a family, town or country still follows. Our family tradition is pancakes before the hunt.

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Egg words 12

carton A light cardboard or plastic box for eggs or juice. Put the eggs back in the carton.
dozen A set of twelve. Mom bought a dozen eggs.
egg white The clear liquid part of an egg, around the center. Dad saved the egg white in a cup.
eggshell The thin, stiff outside of an egg. A bit of eggshell fell into the bowl.
food coloring A substance added to food or drink to tint it. Two drops of food coloring turned the water green.
fragile Not sturdy: it takes little to break it. The painted egg is fragile, so it sits in a cup.
hard-boiled Cooked whole in very hot water until firm right through. She packed a hard-boiled egg for lunch.
hollow With nothing but air in the middle. The chocolate rabbit was hollow.
oval Curved all the way around, but not as wide as it is long. She drew an oval and added stripes.
polka dot A spot that repeats at even gaps to make a pattern. One polka dot on the egg was bigger than the rest.
speckled Marked all over with tiny flecks. The hen laid a speckled egg.
yolk The yellow ball at the heart of an egg. The yolk broke when the egg hit the pan.

Hunts, games and gatherings 12

brunch A meal before noon that blends breakfast and lunch. Brunch was pancakes, fruit and toast.
collect To bring things together from different spots. They collect the eggs in one big bowl.
count To work out the total by going one by one. Count your eggs before you trade.
egg rolling A game of sending eggs down a hill or across grass. Egg rolling was the last game of the afternoon.
egg-and-spoon race A dash in which each player balances an egg in a spoon. Nobody dropped an egg in the egg-and-spoon race.
finish line The stripe on the ground where a run is over. She crossed the finish line first.
gathering An occasion that brings family or friends to one place. The whole street came to the gathering in the park.
hide To place a thing so that nobody can spot it. Dad will hide the eggs while we wait inside.
scavenger hunt A game of tracking down each thing named on a list. The scavenger hunt list had ten things on it.
search To look carefully through a place. Search behind the shed, too.
share To split what is yours so that others get some. I will share my candy with my sister.
tiptoe To walk quietly with your heels off the ground. I tiptoe down the hall so the dog stays asleep.

How this list was compiled: Word list chosen for this site on 2026-10-13. Each meaning is written in our own words and was checked that day against the entry for the word in Wiktionary, the free dictionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/), whose text is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, and a second time against the entry in the Cambridge Dictionary (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/). Three terms stand in one of the two: egg rolling (Wiktionary, and the article Egg rolling of English Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/, whose text is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license), food coloring (the Wiktionary entry food colouring and the article Food coloring) and egg hunt (Wiktionary; the Cambridge entry is Easter egg hunt). That eggs are sold in cartons was read in the article Carton. The sentence after each meaning is our own example of the word in use. The answers under the list rest on the articles Easter bonnet, Egg rolling, Jelly bean and Egg-and-spoon race of English Wikipedia, read the same day. Licence: own work

How it works

These Easter vocabulary worksheets set twelve words on the left and their meanings, mixed up, on the right, with a key. The words are the basket, the eggs and the hunt: customs and spring things, with no church word.

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Basket, bonnet and bunny: Easter day words

Set opens on Easter day: basket, bonnet, chick, bunny, egg hunt, Easter egg, dye, decorate, parade, jelly bean, pastel and tradition. Egg words goes from eggshell, yolk and egg white to hard-boiled, speckled, hollow, oval and fragile, with carton and dozen.

Egg hunt and party words

Hunts, games and gatherings prints hide, search, collect, count, share, scavenger hunt, egg rolling, egg-and-spoon race, finish line, tiptoe, gathering and brunch. Below the tool each word comes with a sentence, such as: We will dye six eggs blue. The box takes your own word = meaning lines in place of the set.

Questions and answers

What is an Easter bonnet?

A new or fancy hat worn on Easter. It is what remains of an older custom of putting on new clothes that day, and in the United States such hats are worn in Easter parades.

What is egg rolling?

An Easter game for eggs, most often hard-boiled and decorated. Rules change from place to place; in general each player rolls an egg over the ground and tries to send it the farthest or get it there the fastest.

What are jelly beans made of?

Mostly sugar. The basic ingredients include sugar, corn syrup, tapioca, and pectin or starch, with small amounts of salt, an edible wax and a glaze. The ingredients that set one flavor apart are a small share too.

What is an egg-and-spoon race?

A race in which each runner must keep an egg steady on a spoon all the way to the finish. Runners go alone or in relay teams, and one who drops the egg may have to stop and put it back, or start again.