April Fool's Day/ Easter!!

[bright sparks]

I can hardly manage a craft, sensory play or malleable play as a group this winter/early spring time with my current group. It's hard enough having them play together in free play as a group when they are coughing and sneezing all over each other almost constantly since September. Tomorrow I have some activities set up but I am having to force myself to be optimistic because it's no fun for anyone stood around the table to have their neighbour sneeze on the painting or in their glue!!

I have yellow cups to make chicks and blue cups to make bunnies and once they have stuck the "bits" on them they are going to fill them with easter grass. Then I'm going to do an egg hunt in the playroom and tell them to put the eggs in their "cups" as they collect them and then they can take them home. I also have plastic coloured eggs to fill with rice and dried beans to make egg shakers and I am going to see if we can manage some potato painting of easter eggs lol

Fingers crossed!!

[kindertime]

I have yellow cups to make chicks and blue cups to make bunnies and once they have stuck the "bits" on them they are going to fill them with easter grass.

Fingers crossed!!

AHH! Easter grass!! I bought some this year. And it almost made me cry!! I was taking it out of the package, the night before so I could cut it into smaller pieces for the kids to glue it into the egg carton cups we'd painted. And it was SOOO staticky. I mean it was sticking to my hands, the scissors, the counter, my clothes, the floor. I couldn't get it off me. I was so frustrated with it, I didn't know what to do with it. I couldn't wash it off, didn't want it down the sink. Finally had to get the whole mess wet with a lot of paper towels and wipe it up. I am still finding bits around the house. And I have vacuumed twice since then.

The stuff I bought was at NoFrills (Loblaws.)

Good luck. Happy Easter!