KidsbCool Preschool Crafts Songs Games Part 2

EASTER ACTVITIES

Sensory
Make pink and white playdough.
Use lots of cotton balls with scoops and measuring cups.
Birdseed with funnels for pouring.
Easter grass, plastic eggs and straw.
Plastic flowers and dirt with clean soup cans.
Scented water.
Colored water.

Easter Math
Place numbers 1-10 on plastic Easter eggs.
Have children add that many cotton balls
or buttons into each egg matching the numbers.
Cut different size figures such as bunnies, flowers,
chicks, eggs etc... Have children sort from largest to smallest,
and from smallest to largest.
Separate plastic eggs and mix all together.
Have children match by color.

Easter Group Game
The Last Bunny:
(Play like Duck Duck Goose)
Chose an Easter bunny by drawing straws.
Everyone else stands in the circle.
The Easter bunny walks around the circle
and taps a player on the shoulder saying,
"Have you seen my bunny helper?"
Player responds,"What does it look like?"
Easter bunny describes the helper.
The player tries to guess who it is.
If he guesses who it is the Easter bunny
says,"That's my helper!" and the other player
chases the bunny back to his spot and becomes
the next Easter bunny.

Easter Science
Add to science table:
Empty bird nests, empty bird eggs.
(you can find these by walking around under the trees in the spring. Save them!)
Different shape and sizes of baskets.
Plant seeds and watch sprout.
Pussy willows.
If possible incubate an egg.
Feely Basket:
Fill a basket with stuffed bunnies and ducks,
cotton balls and plastic eggs. Cover with a towel
and see if children can guess what they feel under the towel.

Dramatic Play
Flower Shop:
Provide plastic spring flowers, baskets, small wreaths,
materials to make small wreaths (old grape vines, moss etc..),
plastic vases, and real Easter Lilies. Also add cellophane
wrapping paper, ribbons and a play cash register with play money.
Easter Egg Hunt Center:
Provide baskets, plastic eggs, Easter grass,
and if possible one Bunny suit. You can make
paper ears on a paper headband and tie a pastel
colored piece of material around a child if no
costume can be found. Let children take turns
hiding the eggs and finding them.
Easter Dress Up:
Bring in fancy Easter clothes for the children
to dress up in. We browse the used clothes stores
for all of our dress ups. Find dressy suits, dresses,
hats, gloves, purses and shiny shoes. Add costume jewerly
and bow ties too!

Arts & Crafts
Egg Center:
Set up a large egg coloring center so several
kids can color at once. Show how to use crayon
markings before dying. How to hold an egg in part way
then turn and dye other side in different color.
Use stickers, marking pens, glue and glitter, sequins,
bits of lace and velvet, etc...
Make your own natural dyes here!
Glue yarn, string and thread in designs.
Glue pom poms on eggs.
Wrap rubber bands on eggs before dying. Take off after they are dry.
Use left over egg shells for collages.
Easter Sand Collages:
Use pastel-colored sand and glue by adding small
amounts of dry tempera to sand until light colors are reached.
Paint glue onto paper then sprinkle with sand.
Variation: Mix enough glue directly to sand to create a paste
then use on cardboard and mold with fingers.
You can also add bits of straw, Easter grass, egg shells,
etc... to the sand/glue mix.
Easel Ideas:
Cut out large egg shapes. If you use a large piece of
cardboard the kids can trace and cut their own. Add pastel
paints with glitter or use a color such as red in one container
and white in another. Watch and discuss the new color - pink.
Do this with all the colors over the whole month. Kids like to
watch paint change.
Milk Baskets:
Cut small milk cartons in half and clean throughly.
We let the kids save them and help wash in a large tub of
pink soapy water. Provide glue and lots of decorations
such as: cloth, lace, beads, sequins, yarn, Easter card cut outs, etc...
Tip! Go to your local fabric shop and ask them to save
any bits of material, beads, buttons, etc...they may have left over.
Have the kids make easter cards and everyone deliver it to people
who helped contribute.
Berry Baskets:
Have all the parents save any little berry baskets they
get that contained strawberries and blueberries.
Add the large thick yarn as handles.
Wet Eggs:
Cut out different sizes of eggs on construction paper.
Have kids dip chalk first in water to color and then in vinegar.
The vinegar color will be brighter.

EASTER COOKING
Egg Sandwiches:
Use boiled eggs the kids have colored.
Have them peel, wash and crush with a fork.
Add either miricle whip or mayo and spread on toast.
Bunny Food:
Have kids arrange slices of carrots, celery,
radishes and lettuce on trays and serve to each other.

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