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How Many Eggs?
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Supplies:
Large glass jar filled with chocolate eggs
Small pieces of paper
Easter basket
Pencil
How To Play:
Have children write their name on a small piece of paper and
their guess as to how many chocolate eggs are in the jar. The
child who guesses the right number, or comes closest takes the
jar of candy home to share with their family.
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Easter Pictionary
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Supplies:
Chalkboard
Chalk
Eraser
Easter Basket
Papers with Easter objects written on them
Timer
How To Play:
Put papers with Easter objects written on them into basket.
Divide children into two groups. Flip a coin to see which team
goes first. Invite a child from the playing team to approach the
chalkboard, draw a slip of paper, and read it to themselves. On
your mark, the child should then draw the object in hopes that
his/her team members will guess the object on their paper. If
the team guesses correctly, before time runs out, they score a
point. If the playing team does not guess correctly the other
team has five seconds to try to come up with the correct answer.
If they guess correctly they score a point and it is their turn
to play.
This game can be simplified for
young players utilizing words such as: carrot, bunny, candy.
Make more difficult for older players by using short phrases:
chocolate bunnies taste good, marshmallow chicks are yellow,
etc.
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Word Find
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Take an Easter related word such as: Basket, Chocolate, Chickens, etc. and find as many little words as possible before the timer runs out.
Example: Chocolate
Words: late, at, ate, tea, tale, tool, cool, hat, hot, cat, coat...
Example: Basket
Words: ask, set, beat, tea, skate, bat, at, sat, bet, ate, eat...
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Easter Egg Bunnies
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Cute little bunnies can be made from real eggs or you can use plastic eggs and fill them with treats. They can also be used as place setting for your Easter Feast.
What you will need: Facial tissue (a good, strong brand) I used Puffs with lotions, card stock (heavy paper), scissors, crayons and markers, glue, plastic or real eggs that have been colored.
What to do:
1. Prepare your eggs ahead of time. Color them if you are using real eggs, or fill them with treats if you are using plastic eggs.
2. Draw a rectangle 3/4" x 7 1/2" long onto card stock. Draw legs on the bottom part of the rectangle. Cut the rectangle and legs out so that they are attached. Color them and then glue the ends of the rectangle together to fit snugly around your egg to form a holder for the egg. (Don't glue it to the egg.) Fold the legs up. Draw hands and torso onto the card stock. Cut them out and color them. Glue the hands and torso pattern to the back, inside part of the legs pattern around the ring.
3. To make the bunny heads you will need two facial tissues for each head. Crinkle up one facial tissue into a tight ball. Unfold the other one and place the crinkled up ball in the center. Bring one corner down and over the crinkled up ball. Roll the opposite corner around the crinkled up tissue. Now scrunch up the two corners you haven't used yet into ear shapes. Bring them together over the crinkled up ball that has been rolled inside the tissue. Carefully tie the two ends together over the ball. Pull the ends out and form them into ear shapes.
4. Draw eyes and ears on the face and glue it onto the smaller end of the egg. Place the egg and head in the feet holder.
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Donkey paper Bag Puppet
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What you will need: Brown Construction Paper, brown lunch bag, glue sticks, scissors, and crayons.
What to do:
1. Draw a donkey's head, ears, and legs on brown construction paper. Make the head large enough to cover the bottom of the brown lunch bag. Cut them out and glue the legs onto the back of the bag and the head onto the bottom of the bag. Cut a tongue from pink construction paper and glue it to the inside fold of the bottom part of the bag
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Bunny and Egg Refrigerator Magnets or Pins Craft
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Bunny and Egg Refrigerator Magnets or Pins Craft
Easter craft for kids of all ages.
What you will need: Plastic spoons, small round magnets or jewelry clasps, fun foam, ribbon, markers, paint, Plaster of Paris, and glue.
What to do:
Set up the plastic spoons on newspaper so that the scoop side of the spoons are facing up. Prop the handle end of the spoons up on something to make the scoop side of the spoon level.
Mix the Plaster of Paris according to the directions. Use another plastic spoon to spoon in the mixed plaster into each cup of the plastic spoons.
Let the plaster set for a little bit until the plaster is set enough to hold the magnets or jewelry clasps upright.
When the plaster is set enough press the clasps or magnets into the plaster. Let the plaster dry completely and remove the molds from the spoons.
To finish use markers or paint to decorate the molds. For the rabbit cut out ears from fun foam and glue to the back of the mold. Glue a bow to the front of the rabbit.
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Why the Easter Bunny Brings Eggs
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10. Big tax write-off.
9. Who ever heard of Easter Bricks?
8. Consider all of the varieties: scrambled, over easy, hard boiled.
7. He gets a good deal from the local chickens.
6. Secret plan to eliminate human race by cholesterol overdose.
5. Pressure from the Egg Marketing Board.
4. Because if it brought bottle rockets it would be the Independence Bunny.
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Easter Clue
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Supplies:
Make your own egg shaped bingo cards
Small candy, such as M&M's, for markers
Easter basket to hold call cards
How To Play:
Create your own cards using an Easter, April, or candybar theme.
Easter theme might include: basket, egg, green, yellow, blue,
bunny, chocolate. April theme might include: Umbrella, trees,
rain, boots, raincoat, puddle, tulips. A candybar theme might
include: Skor, Mr. Goodbar, Milkyway, Hershey, Kisses, Hugs, Joy
(go to the grocery store for this one :D).
Another variation to create
your own Bingo card: Write the names of all the children on
pieces of paper and drop them into a Valentine bag. Note: remove
the names of any children absent that day.
Create a BINGO card with blank
spaces. Across the top it will say "N-A-M-E-S". Have
the children go around and have their classmates sign their name
to the spaces on the card. When all are done, have them sit down
at their tables.
Play NAMES by drawing a name
out of the bag. Play regular BINGO or blackout. If the children
really like the game, then play "Postage Stamp" any
2x2 square (4 names) on the board, etc.
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Easter Bingo
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Supplies:
Make your own egg shaped bingo cards
Small candy, such as M&M's, for markers
Easter basket to hold call cards
How To Play:
Create your own cards using an Easter, April, or candybar theme.
Easter theme might include: basket, egg, green, yellow, blue,
bunny, chocolate. April theme might include: Umbrella, trees,
rain, boots, raincoat, puddle, tulips. A candybar theme might
include: Skor, Mr. Goodbar, Milkyway, Hershey, Kisses, Hugs, Joy
(go to the grocery store for this one :D).
Another variation to create
your own Bingo card: Write the names of all the children on
pieces of paper and drop them into a Valentine bag. Note: remove
the names of any children absent that day.
Create a BINGO card with blank
spaces. Across the top it will say "N-A-M-E-S". Have
the children go around and have their classmates sign their name
to the spaces on the card. When all are done, have them sit down
at their tables.
Play NAMES by drawing a name
out of the bag. Play regular BINGO or blackout. If the children
really like the game, then play "Postage Stamp" any
2x2 square (4 names) on the board, etc.
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Easter Basket Craft
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What you need: 1 or 2 liter
soda bottles, scissors, paper punch or staple, glue, tissue
paper or anything you want to decorate the basket with, pinking
shears (optional)
What to do:
Cut off the bottom of a soda bottle. This will be your basket.
Trim the edge cleanly, or use pinking shears or other decorative
scissors to make a fancy edge.
Cut a 1/2 to 1 inch ring from the soda bottle, cut it in half
and use one half as the handle.
To attach the handle use a paper punch to put a hole in the
basket where the handle should be attached. Punch a hole at each
end of the handle. Use yarn or ribbon to attach the handle to
the basket. Or you can use the brass colored paper brads to
attach the handle, but this isn't recommended if young children
will be using them. You could also use a stapler to attach the
handle, but it is less flexible when finished.
You can leave the basket plain or use glue and tissue paper to
decorate the outside.
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Eggs Made Of Cotton Balls
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Supplies needed: 81/2x11 white
construction paper
Pastel colored cotton balls
Child safe scissors
Stick glue
Take the construction paper and fold it in half length wise.
Take your scissors and cut out a half oval shape along the non
folded edge, making sure that one end is cut a little flat (oval
at the top, flat/straight on the bottom), you can draw it out
with a pencil first to help with the cutting.
Open your paper and it should look like an egg (this is similar
to cutting out a valentine heart).
Put glue on section of the egg and apply various colored cotton
balls, continue until the entire egg is covered.
For the more creative one, try putting the colored cotton balls
on in some type of pattern.
Let dry and hang on wall or refrigerator for all to see!!!!
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