Easter Mystery Activity – Who Kidnapped the Easter Bunny? Digital ELA Game
Turn your classroom into an Easter crime scene with this interactive Easter mystery activity that keeps students engaged while practicing essential language skills. In this digital Easter mystery activity, students become detectives racing to solve the disappearance of Hopper before the Springvale egg hunts begin. Students uncover hidden clues by completing spelling, grammar, punctuation, and figurative language challenges. As they eliminate suspects, locations, and methods, they piece together who kidnapped the Easter Bunny, where it happened, and how it was done—just in time to save Easter.
This is a digital resource and students complete all the work on a device. It works well for distance learning, 1:1 classrooms, remote teaching, Google Classroom, or online learning environments.
How Does the Easter Mystery Digital Activity Work?
- Students are introduced to a story-based mystery set on Easter morning, after learning the Easter Bunny has suddenly vanished in the night, and chaos spreads across Springvale. They learn about a cast of suspects with clear motives, a list of possible locations, and several suspicious methods that could explain the Easter Bunny’s disappearance.
- Working in small groups or independently, students will examine 10 digital clue cards and complete the digital activities that require students to apply ELA skills—such as correcting spelling and homophones, identifying figurative language, fixing punctuation, and analyzing capitalization—to reveal clues.
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These clues allow students to eliminate suspects, locations, or methods in their digital detective booklet. When a group believes they have cracked the case, they call out, “We solved the mystery!” and check their answers. The class can then review each clue together and reveal the culprit using the provided Easter game answer slides.
What’s Included in the Easter Mystery Digital Activity?
➡️ Introductory Google Slides Presentation: A ready-to-use Google Slides Presentation introduces the backstory behind the Easter Bunny’s disappearance and walks students through how the mystery works. The slides explain the list of suspects, locations, and possible methods while modeling how students should use clues to eliminate possibilities. This presentation helps build excitement for the Easter game and ensures students understand how to track their evidence as they work through the Easter mystery activity.
➡️ Easter Mystery Activity Digital Clue Cards: Students complete ten digital clue cards by applying an ELA skill in order to unlock a piece of information. As students solve the challenges, they gain information that allows them to eliminate suspects, locations, or methods from their detective booklet. Skills practiced include:
- Spelling
- Homophones
- Commas
- Capitalization
- Apostrophes
- Metaphors
- Similes
- Hyperbole
- Personification
- Adjectives
➡️ Student Detective Digital Response Booklet: A structured digital booklet helps students record clues, cross off suspects, locations, and methods, and track their reasoning as they work through the Easter mystery activity. The booklet keeps groups organized as they complete each task and encourages students to think carefully about the evidence they collect. An answer key for the Easter game booklet is also included for quick and easy review.
➡️ Answer Key & Solution Slides: Complete answer keys for every task make it easy to check student work or review the Easter mystery activity together as a class. The included solution slides walk through how each clue eliminates certain suspects, locations, or methods until the final answer is revealed. This makes it easy to review the mystery, reinforce the ELA skills practiced, and show students how the evidence leads to the final answer.
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