Angela Kulcsar shows 12 Easter file-folder activities for autistic and special-needs learners, ranging from simple matching to complex patterning and alphabet ordering. Each folder has visual cues and three label types for classroom management, with tasks like sorting eggs by size, counting, and sequencing patterns.
much easier when I have them all ready to go. But this set I made for Easter, and I just love, love, love these graphics, so I think we're gonna use these all spring because they're spring and seasonal and it all works. So I think we're gonna use these the next few months. So as with all my other file folders, this— there are 12 different sets that are for a wide range of learners. So there's ones that are great for your low— lower level learners working on just matching and basic skills like that, and then things get a little harder like counting and ordering the letters of the alphabet and things like that. So you have a wide gamut, right, in this set. Um, so here's a little guide page that I provide in each set to kind of show you where each title is gonna go, 'cause I provided 3 different types of titles for each activity. I like to title the file folder, the tab, and the baggie. I think the baggie is the most important one 'cause that's the thing that usually gets lost and then you're scrambling trying to find it. So I'll just scroll through really quickly the activities. So this first one is matching eggs, and this one is— or sorting eggs by size. And so this is sorting big eggs and little eggs. So there are two sides to the file folder. Here's where you put the big ones and the small ones, and there is a little visual cue which is helpful for some of my kids that don't understand the language. It's a good little prompt, and sometimes I like to put one on each side too to kind of get them started to help with the sorting as well. Um, next is matching eggs. So this is just direct matching and a little bit matching to size too, because they are shaped differently. So they're gonna match, you know, this exact green stripe egg to this exact green stripe egg. And I like these sets because they're a little bit similar, like as you can see, like there's some of the same color, but they really have to pay attention and discriminate to the pattern. So it makes a little bit trickier, and those kids that just fly through things, they really do have to focus, which I like. Next is another kind of matching one, and these are just pieces, so they'll just match the squares to the squares. Again, you know, really having to pay attention to the patterns. Ordering from big to small— these file folders have really helped my kids learn some of these skills because they were really struggling with this before on like that sequential piece. And in the ABLES, that's something that they focus on that I felt like I was never able to show that my kids had mastered. So this is a great one that we use all the time now, ordering from big to small and having the visual cue on there so they have like a little extra help. So 4 times they do that. Next is an easy pattern, so just A-B-A-B with 2 opportunities. Next is middle, ABC pattern, pieces, and hard, so ABCD. And this hard one is real tricky. This is really challenging for some of my, even my higher functioning students. Next is matching the numbers to the number word for 1 through 10. So here are the egg pieces matched onto the black line drawings. And then 11 through 20. So here are 11 through 20, and then matching to the written word. And then Counting Eggs. So this is great for your kids that have some emerging counting skills but maybe have trouble writing, which I have a student that's exactly like that, so these tasks are perfect for him. So count the number of eggs and then match the correct number. So you'd match the number 5 to, um, and these are pretty time-consuming too because it does take time to count each one. Ordering the Alphabet, so this is just for putting the letters in order. I was watching one of my kids do the St. Patrick's Day one today, and he blows my mind how smart he is with this. He just does such a great job. It's really cool to see. And then this one's matching lowercase to uppercase letters, so the same thing. So yeah, that's it. It's obviously, as you can see, a really wide range of types of activities, so you'll be able to have stuff for your higher and lower level learners on the same set. This is a product preview of File Folder Activities for Easter by TheAutismHelper.com.
