Easter ideas??

[Spixie33]

Hi everyone....wonderin g if anyone has any inspiring Easter ideas. I seem to be coming up pretty empty even after I search on Pinterest.

I think we will make a paper plate bunny and also some salt dough eggs....but I was hoping to do a craft for every day next week and am feeling panicked that I can't come up with anything. eeeks.

Anyone have any great ideas?

[cfred]

My guys are all under 2, so I'm not sure what age group you were looking at. At any rate, here's what we've done and will be doing:

- bought some 'hatching eggs' at the dollar store (Dollarama I think). They've been on our toy cabinet in glasses of water for a few days now, hatching.

- I cut out little, white silhouettes of rabbits (about 2-3") with ears in different positions. Kids had to glue those onto construction paper then glue multi coloured miniature pom poms on as tails.

- kept all egg shells from baking, meals, etc for a week, and rinsed them all out. Crushed, divided and soaked in various colours of food colouring. Drain each colour individually, put in baking dish in 200 degree oven for a while - not sure how long I left them in for....maybe 30 mins? This will dry them out nicely and get rid of that membrane inside the shell. Smash them up well. Cut out egg shapes from construction paper and have the kids glue the egg shells on. My kids are small, so I just did one big egg shape for each of them, spread glue all over them and they just picked up shells and threw them on and followed up with a few sparkles. For older kids, I could see doing small eggs, then using them to collage.

- I bought small styrofoam eggs which we'll cover with glue then roll in sparkles - you can never go wrong with glitter

- am keeping more egg shells for a hatching chick picture. Basically, just a pic of a chick, downloaded and coloured by the kids. Glue it on a piece of paper with some egg shells around - voila.

- put out pastel coloured paints at your easel....that's Eastery! A fun paint activity we do, and they love - let them paint on a window (heavily supervised of course) then take a paper and press and smoosh it on their window painting to transfer it. Very cool.

-bought adorable rabbit ear head bands at Dollarama too. Couldn't believe they were only $1!!! We each have a set and will wear them on our last day before Easter for song circle. Of course, we'll have to do "Little Rabbit Foo Foo" and "Sleeping Bunnies".

Hope that helps!

[playfelt]

I'm kind of feeling like combining Easter and Mother's day because it is going to be that long I think before it looks like spring outside and the kids get that we are having a change of seasons, new life, etc. lol. Even my parents are wondering about easter egg hunts they normally have outside if they will move it inside or just put it off a month or so - ie make spring and easter be in April regardless of what the calendar says.

From a craft standpoint mine are young too and mostly we concentrate on easter eggs and uses them to explore texture etc - using rubbing plates and other textures. I have a cuttlebug machine and last year we ran the eggs through the machine and put textures on them and they loved cranking the handle so we will do that again for sure.

[Spixie33]

Love the ideas guys.

I realy like the idea about the egg shell art Cfred.

[cfred]

Thanks Spixie! I'm totally going to rip off your paper plate bunny idea

[mlle.coccinelle]

here is a fun one!
http://www.oneperfectdayblog.net/201...er-party-hats/

I've been ''hunting'' on pintrest for weeks and weeks... try using different key words.... Bunny gave me TONS of idea

[sunnydays]

I'm doing the egg shell craft too...found it on pinterest But I hadn't thought of dying the shells...the instructions I found was to crush them and glue them and then let the kids paint them. I am going to let the kids crush them themselves this afternoon

[smileyface]

I was actually going to post something asking this exact thing! So far I will be doing an Easter egg hunt, we will be making rice crispy squares into egg shapes, dipping them in chocolate and then dipping them in pastel coloured sprinkles. I also bought little presents from the dollar store for the kiddies. I'm giving these rubber ducks and rubber frogs that are for the bath and when they are in the water they making noises. I'm now trying to decide what craft to do.

[momofnerds]

the dollarama had foam eggs and it came with glitter and sprinkles it was about 3 dollars for the whole thing. Do you guys buy something for easter if so what?

[Skysue]

http://indulgy.com/post/bAU4Q3ojJ1/handfoot-print-bunny

http://pinterest.com/pin/187180928234827505/

http://pinterest.com/pin/187180928234802133/


http://pinterest.com/pin/187180928234758423/

My favourite : http://pinterest.com/pin/68891069272513876/