Label each plastic egg (using permanent marker, so it won't smear) with one of the solfege syllables that you have been reinforcing. Put a few candies in the egg. Employ a few of your more reliable older students (or a parent helper) to hide the eggs either outside or in a suitable section of the building if the weather's bad, before you have your classes.
Take the kids out on an Easter egg hunt! Review rules that you've set beforehand (there's enough for everyone, no running, no pushing for eggs, whatever suits your situation). Once the kids are back inside, establish do for them, and have each student sing his or her pitch. Select a few kids to write their syllables on the board, and add Easter-appropriate words to their song! When doing creativity activities like this, I often send one student to ask their teacher if he/she would like to come pick them up a minute or two early to listen to the new creations! Most primary kids love performing their new "creations" for their classroom teachers. This lesson plan was modified from a plan taken from the MacMillan 1993 series.
Good old K-8 Magazine comes to the rescue again! This song is one of their older ones (I don't even remember what edition!), but is a hit. Get a hold of a copy of The Easter Bunny Blues. This is especially good if you can time your blues unit for around Easter time. Back issues of K-8 can be purchased, and many of their songs are available in individual versions. The great thing about the K-8 arrangements are their accompaniment only recordings. Use that as the basis for a blues-writing unit for your kids!
What about a combination art/multi-cultural/music unit? April would be a great month to do Russia as Culture of the Month. This link is a really neat virtual diary of a Russian exchange student sharing her egg-decorating talents.
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