I didn't do gifts because they don't really get the why so don't want them thinking they get to take a gift home every weekend or something. Not all families celebrate Easter the same and I learned to tread lightly on this one - some want only the religious significance and others are ok with the chocolate bunnies, eggs etc and others want no chocolate for their toddlers.

Normally we would have used Easter as the transition from winter to spring with the idea of grass, and the wild bunnies would be back in the yard, birds, squirrels active etc. and we would be putting away all the winter stuff and talking about the tulips poking through the yard .......well non of that is on the learning agenda this week or likely for a few weeks more. Easter belongs at the end of April and that is when we will do the theme.

I did do some Easter eggs with the kids yesterday just so they had something to take home - simple but everyone was excited and parents were impressed - it really doesn't have to be an elaborate time consuming expensive tear out the hair while getting them done kind of craft. I printed a page of 4 eggs on pastel cardstock - pink, yellow, mauve. They coloured them with crayons and then later in the day (between lunch and nap) we cut the page into 4 and ran each egg through the cuttlebug using an assortment of embossing folders (scrapbookers will know what I mean) and that made their eggs "bumpy". During nap I cut out the eggs so each went home with a littl zip bag of bumpy eggs to pass out to family. All they had to do was help hand me the egg to put in the embossing folder and then they cranked the handle to pass it through the machine. They loved feeling the textures. Will for sure do this again with shapes or letters or specific colours.