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Easter Time!

Easter Craft

Make your own Bunny Ears
What you’ll need;
• A3 white card
• Sheet of pink paper
• Glue
• Pencil
Cut roughly an inch thick strip of card, along the longest part of the A3 Card. Then wrap this around your childs head to gage the size, stick the two ends together with the glue making sure the headband fits nicely, like a hat would. Then, with the rest of the card drawer on one rabbit ear (a long inch wide cylinder shape with a point at the top) and fold over the card so when you cut the ear out, you get two similar ears. Using the same technique cut out two smaller ear shapes from the pink paper and stick each smaller ear onto the larger ear. These bunny ears are then stuck onto the back of the headband with your prit stick, and hey presto as if by magic, you have set of Easter bunny ears! A special Easter hat to where whilst doing a special Easter egg hunt maybe!?

Decorate Your Own Easter Egg Shape
Get an adult to cut out an oval shape from some coloured card, to represent an Easter egg. Get the kids to decorate their eggs with pens, pencils, feathers, stickers, glitter and anything else you can find on your travels. If you do enough, maybe you could attach them onto some string and hang them in the front room or kitchen as an Easter decoration? A nice creative past time that you can keep hold of!

Pasta Necklaces
Get hold of all kinds of pasta that have holes in the middle, you can get different coloured pasta as well as different shapes and sizes in your local food shop. Start threading the pasta shapes onto some string to make necklaces, bracelets, anklets and head dresses! Tie the 2 string pieces together when you have finished, and there you have a lovely new piece of jewellery! How about painting your pasta shapes with some glitter glue or coloured paint to make it that bit more special? Great for hand and eye co ordination, concentration and confidence! 

Easter Games

Egg and Spoon Race
The egg and spoon race is a timeless classic and can be done with any amount of children, as long as they can walk confidently, they can join in!
Hard boil several eggs (depending upon how many children/adults you have playing), set a beginning and an end of the race either in the back garden, park or living room by marking beginning and end with something obvious like a chair or a scarf placed across the floor. Get the children to stand by the start marker with their eggs on dessert spoons. The rules are to hold the spoon with one hand – first round you walk with your egg, second round you have to hop on one leg and third round you have to skip. The idea is to be the first person to the finish line with their egg still on the spoon – with out cheating!! A great game for social interaction, competitiveness, balance, hand and eye co ordination but most of all, FUN! 

Eggs in the Basket
Find yourself a bucket, washing up bowl or something similar, you can dress this up to look more like a basket if you want with some tissue paper or even straw! Stand roughly a metre away from your basket and take turns between your children and yourself to throw you ‘eggs’ into the basket. Your ‘eggs’ could be small bean bags, sponge tennis balls or anything you do not mind being thrown. This is such a simple game, but kids love the challenge. Maybe after each round you could take one step backwards to make it that bit harder. Great for hand and eye co ordination, sense of distance, balance and FUN!

Easter Music

Dance Time
Put on your Easter bunny ears mentioned above and have a go at singing this song!
See the little bunnies sleeping 'til it's nearly noon.
Come and let us gently wake them
With this happy tune

Oh, so still.. Are they ill ?
NO !!
Hop little bunnies, hop, hop, hop
Hop little bunnies, hop, hop, hop
Hop little bunnies, hop, hop, hop
Hop little bunnies, hop, hop, Stop !
When you all sing ‘see the little bunnies sleeping’ get the children to curl up on the floor, like the sleeping bunnies, then when you all scream ‘NO!!’ stand up and start jumping around, just like the little bunnies!!

Easter Cookery

Bunny Pears
Cut a pear in half length ways, stick 2 raisins into the narrow end for the bunny’s eyes and half of a red jelly bean for his nose. Take 2 almonds and stick them on the top of the narrow part of the pair for his ears (if you cannot use nuts, try using some wafers). For the bunny’s tail, place a spoon of cream cheese at the bottom of the pear. And there you have a tasty, healthy Easter snack! 

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