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7-14-00Every year for Easter I dye eggs with my class the 5 and 6 year olds. They can color the eggs lightly with wax crayon before I help them dye it. I just buy an egg dying kit. The children can pick any color they want sometimes for a little fun we mix the colors They come out looking really good when they dry. I give each child a Styrofoam cup to put their egg in with some colored Easter grass. The children can decorate their cup with crayons and stickers. Then I give the children a pipe cleaner for the handle of the cup. I just let the eggs dry in the egg carton then we put them in the cups. The cup ends up looking like a basket with an egg in it. The eggs lasts for a long time.
4-30-00At Easter time, we make sun catcher Easter eggs. To do so all you need is contact paper and tissue paper squares. First you peel the paper off the contact paper. Then you place it sticky side up in front of the child. They then cover the sticky side with tissue squares. When they are all finished I trim the edges and hang in the window of from the ceiling lights.
4-24-00Easter Egg Puzzle Wreath Supplies: old puzzles missing pieces glue spray paint holder (something to use to hold the wreath up when finished) can be a pipe cleaner attached. Take the old puzzle pieces first and spray paint (adult only) and if you do them in solid color, then I went back and did a splatter color over top in a darker shade. Let dry. Add a hanger to one corner piece (this is the child's starting place). Lay out a sheet of wax paper and put a dab of white glue up in the corner and let the kids start putting the pieces on top of each other to form an egg shape. Then we used the little confetti bunnies and added them to further decorate. Let dry and you have your Easter Egg. Each egg turns out different, we did 4 different colors and they shapes were great. Then it is fun to see some kids want more decorations and some want less. Be sure to tell them the shape is to be an egg. Also with that you can go around and help shape the egg if it isn't shaping up to look like an egg. When we were the done the kids just loved what they had done. We put them on a paper plate when dried, and wrapped them up with colored tissue paper and tied the corner up with ribbon.
4-18-00Allow the children to paint on white paper using spring colors. They can finger-paint, paint with rolling marbles or tennis balls, spatter paint, etc. You choose! When dry, cut into large egg shapes and place around your room for great color and no two alike!
4-18-00Shrink the Rubber Egg You'll need: The rubber egg from the previous experiment, clean jar with lid, corn syrup Pour corn syrup into the jar until it is three inches deep. Gently place the egg in the jar. Screw on the lid. leave the egg in the jar for three days. Check the egg every once in awhile. The egg, this time, shrinks and wrinkles up - becoming very small and rubbery. The water molecules inside the egg move through the egg's membrane into the corn syrup. The corn syrup will not move into the egg because its molecules are too big to fit through the tiny holes of the membrane. particles move in and out of your body's cells this way.
4-18-00My class had a lot of fun making egg hunt collages. First, they each drew a basic landscape (grass, sky) on a large sheet of paper. Next, they cut and glued pictures of outdoor objects -- trees, cars, playground equipment, dogs, etc. -- from magazines to complete the scene. Finally, they drew the Easter Bunny with crayons and glued on dyed shell macaroni "eggs" all over the landscape! For some reason, this project really appealed to the four-year-old sense of humor! They really enjoyed getting to be the ones to "hide" the eggs!
4-18-00Inflate and tie a small balloon for each child. Make a thin glue and water mixture, and have the children "paint" sections of the balloon and then lay squares of tissue paper down flat onto the glue. The tissue should overlap and cover the entire balloon. Let dry on wax paper, or hang to dry from the knotted end of the balloon over newspaper. When the balloon is completely dry, use scissors to cut a small slit in the balloon neck. The balloon will deflate, leaving a beautiful, hollow tissue paper "egg". For a parent gift, these may be filled with lightweight candies, and then sealed with one more square of tissue.
4-18-00For decorating Easter eggs with a glossy finish try mixing sweet and condensed milk with food coloring and paint.
4-15-00Easter Basket Styrofoam Cup thin ribbon hole punch sticker, markers, sequins, etc. pipe cleaner Easter Grass malted Eggs or candy eggs Punch holes around the cup, lace ribbon through holes and tie bow. Decorate outside of basket (cup) with markers, stickers, sequins, whatever you can think of. Add grass and eggs. Poke pipe cleaner into each side of cup for handle.
4-13-00Items needed: paper plate, silk flowers, ribbon and glue. To make an Easter bonnet have the children glue silk flowers or other Easter items on the bottom of the plate, when they are done, punch two holes near the edges, opposite of each other and tie ribbon on. Then place the paper plate on the child's head, tie it and you have an Easter bonnet.
4-13-00Use Easter shaped cookie cutters and place them in paint and have the children paint all over a blank piece of paper. This makes beautiful art or wrapping paper.
4-13-00Items needed: 2 hard boiled eggs, a shoe box or other box, plain paper and paint. Line the bottom of the box with paper and dip the eggs in paint then have the children roll them around, you can also cut the paper in different shapes for another effect. Hint: you can buy hard wooden shaped eggs at a craft store to use over and over without breaking.
4-12-00We're having an Easter party with Ones, Twos, and Threes. I will take a photo of each child with a Polaroid camera. Then I will have each child decorate a cardboard frame with crayons, glue, paper, doodads, etc. I will tape the photo inside the frame for an Easter gift for his/her parents.
4-12-00Stained Glass Easter Eggs- You will need Colored tissue paper, glue, scissors, and white construction paper. First cut out a large egg shape from the white paper. Then cut the a few pieces of colored tissue paper into one inch squares. Now have the children glue the different colored squares of tissue paper onto the egg. I did this with my two year old class and they loved it.
Date: 4-11-00Materials needed: glue (3-4 bottles) markers (pastel colors), construction paper Take the tips off of the markers and drop one of each color into a glue bottle. Wait for glue to change color. Then cut out oval shapes of construction paper and let children decorate paper with the colored glue. You will have colorful decorated paper eggs.
Date: 4-10-00We made rainbows by painting stripes of all the colors of the rainbow on a cotton ball. Then place on paper, like a stamp. You can also color them with pastels and make them into egg stamps, and draw/paint a basket for your eggs.
Date: 4-10-00Easter Card Print each child's foot using yellow paint. Add orange beak where the ball of the foot would be (use a marker). Add brown stick feet where the toes are . Glue onto a piece of folded 81/2 x 11 add put Happy Easter on the front. parents love this.
ideaUse white hard boiled eggs place a sheet of wax paper in the bottom of
a good size box add a few spoonfuls of various colors of paint (child's
choice of color) place egg(s) in box and roll, just like in marble paint this creates a fun way to color eggs and the results on the wax
paper look like a stain glass picture that you can frame in construction
paper and hang in the window.
ideaI provide childcare in my home. The parents are responsible for providing wet wipes, diapers, etc. Just this morning I took out an empty container of wet wipes. Some of them have connected lids, some do not and you can just pop them off-these would work best. Just pop the lid off, and the bottom is nice rectangular start to an Easter basket! I went through my supplies because I do save the wet wipe containers for various projects and I have a couple blue and light green perfect for Easter. Let the kids decorate them, add a handle, some grass and eggs!
ideaThis is a great spring or Easter idea. Take a box that is about a inch or two high. Then take craft sticks and paint them white and glue them all around the outside of the box. Should look like a white picket fence. Then add Easter grass in the box which can be glued down if you so choose. Then add a scenery to your box trees, Winnie the pooh or perhaps something else your into such as chicka chicka boom boom letters and the coconut tree. Then if you wish you can add wrapped candy to share with the children later and or if your doing it at home add colored hard boiled eggs. Remember to allow your preschoolers to paint the fence and glue down the grass and color their scenery whatever that may be that they would like to glue in the box. I hope you all enjoy making this scenery with your preschoolers and or children. Have fun be creative.
ideaItems needed: Small balloon, 2C. Sugar, 1C. water, crochet floss (not yarn, this is the type to do lace, dollies, etc. quite thin) Mix the sugar and water. (use warm water as to dissolve all the sugar) Blow up your balloons and tie off the ends. Dip strands of the floss (1 to two feet at a time.) into the sugar mixture. Wrap the floss around the balloon over and over again until the balloon is mostly covered like a spider web, with holes and windows. Let it completely dry. Then pop the balloon, (make sure you immediately throw away all balloon parts especially around small children) cut a 2 to 3 inch oval hole on the side of the egg. Add lace around the hole to decorate it, put in Easter grass and two small plastic Easter eggs. This is a great project, a little messy and best done outside on a nice spring morning. It is really easy to clean up after later, just a little water and usually some finger licking as well. These are very attractive Easter projects, great for gifts!
ideaItems Needed: Grass seed, potting soil, pot or cup, wide craft stick, white paint, markers, pink felt misc. craft items like fishing line (whiskers) pipe cleaners, pom poms, press on eyes, or googly eyes. First, have the children place the potting soil in the pot, and sprinkle with grass seed, place a little more soil to cover and water the soil. Next have the children decorate paint their craft sticks white. Then after dry decorate like bunnies. Cut the felt into ears, put on eye nose and whiskers. Stick the stick into the grass pot and place them in a sunny window. In a few days your bunny will be sitting in the grass.
ideaPurchase a flat plastic egg shaped container which might be sold to hold candy. The bottom must have a raised detailed design. Make copies of an egg shaped outline that will fit into the dish. The children will cut out the egg which has been copied on white paper. Place the paper into the dish. Children do a rubbing with peeled, somewhat short crayons.
ideaYou can take a small brown lunch sack and roll it from the top all the way down and it makes a perfect birds nest. You can have the children go outside and collect twigs, grass, etc to put in their nests. You can also put in Easter grass and jelly beans and put on a pipe cleaner handle to use it as a little Easter basket. I got this idea at a workshop and it turns out really cute!!
Date: 4-8-00Make salt dough. Two cups salt to two cups flour. Add a little water to make dough like consistency. This can now be rolled into any shape. We made Easter baskets with eggs for our Easter theme, but have also made X-mas decorations, candle sticks etc. Allow the dough to dry slowly or bake in a moderate low oven overnight. Paint if required and then varnish with clear varnish. Makes a wonderful long lasting gift for mom or dad.
Date: 4-5-00Make a Easter basket from a plastic container that had blueberries in it. Weave a pretty colored ribbon through the open spaces around the container and glue the ends together. Use pipe cleaners or heavy cardboard for the handles. Let the children put a egg that they colored themselves into the basket, with some grass and jelly beans. My day care loved this when we made them.
Date: 4-5-00Cut an egg shape out of a coffee filter. Let the kids draw and color on it with washable markers. Then take a water bottle and let the kids spray their egg with water and let dry. They are fast and fun!!
Date: 4-5-00Get a copy of a basket, or have the children make their own basket. Then provide the children with different colors of paint, mixed with white to make them look lighter and more spring like. Have them dip their thumbs and put it on the basket. Do this as many times as you like. The thumb prints can represent the Easter eggs in the basket.
Date: 3-20-00For a different twist on how to decorate paper eggs, add food coloring to corn syrup! I use at least 5-6 drops for a dramatic effect. Use cotton swabs to apply to a heavier stock paper and you will get glossy and brilliantly colored Easter eggs. WARNING!! Do not do on a hot and humid day. It will never dry completely.
Date: 3-11-00Using different colored paper cut out an egg shape...then take egg shells that have been colored and crumble them. Then have the children decorate the egg shape with egg shells.
Date: 3-8-00Cut out different colored basket shapes. Have the children collage on them for Easter.
Date: 3-8-00Cut o ut a bunny shape and A hat shape for each child. Have the child glue the hat to the bunny and then have them decorate the bunny.
Date: 3-6-00Easter Art - Stained Glass Egg Take different colors of tissue paper and cut it into different small pieces. Then take two pieces of contact paper peel the one side off, and then let the child put the tissue paper on it. After that then put the other piece of contact paper on it. Hang in the window where the sun will shine on it.
Date: 3-1-00Easter and/or Mothers Day Gifts You will need: 1.Baby Food Jars w/lids (cleaned) 2.Playdough or other type of clay 3.Various straw flowers or fake flowers in small sizes. You may use plastic miniature rabbits, eggs etc. Press a small amount of play dough onto the lids underside. Push your flowers or other objects into the play dough (you can even use a small cross for a church activity) You may add as many as desired providing that you can still attach the lid back onto the jar. You also have the option of painting or adding glitter to the remainder of the exposed play dough. Leave the lid exposed to air overnight so the play dough will dry out and in the morning fasten the lid back on. It will look like a enclosed vase with flowers. They are simple and quite impressive!
Date: 3-1-00Spray paint a large sheet of paper using a variety of colored edible dye mixed with water in plastic spray bottles. When dry, you can use paper for wrapping, cutting out egg shapes or it looks great as a wallpaper backing for an Easter display board.
2-16-00Cut out a large outline of an Easter egg on white construction paper. Next, take white glue and make shapes, lines and patterns on the egg. Let dry. Take colored chalk and fill in the outlines. Rub with tissue or your finger to fill in each shape completely. These are great for bulletin boards or wall decorations.
Date: 3-18-99Easter Bottom Bunny Have each student sit on piece of white bulletin board paper. Trace around their bottoms and legs to form a bunny face and ears. Give the children cotton balls, broom bristles and cut out eyes and the inside of ears to decorate. Add a mouth and either a bow tie or hair bow and you have a bottom bunny Name:
Date: 3-18-99Who says carol syrup is just for cooking? Mix a little tempera paint with it and children can paint Easter Eggs cut outs, Shamrocks...anything, anytime, any holiday. Can also be used to make handprint flowers, rainbows and much more! Just paint and let dry...Your art work will shine! And the kids love it! 6-13-98 Name: Marilyn E-Mail: Cabana 94@aol.com I purchased bow tie macaroni and then dyed them with food coloring to make yellow, green, red, orange and blue. (I dyed them by putting some of the macaroni in a plastic bag, added a splash of rubbing alcohol, and a splash of food color - shake the bag well). Then I placed them on newpaper to dry overnight. I then used the dyed macaroni to collage with pastel colored cello paper (Easter basket paper). The bowtie macaroni looks like butterflies and the paper looks like flowers. It makes a nice combination for a spring art project. 4-2-98 Name: Christine E-Mail: c-lkoch@dowco.com A variation on the crayon resist idea: Use oil pastels to decorate paper eggs, then wash with pastel colours. The pastels create a brighter colour, and using pale yellow, pink or mauve to do the wash really creates a great Easter look. 4-1-98 Name: Jamie E-Mail: jamiesmilz@aol.com How about painting with *Peeps*?!?!? First, cut out fairly large *chick* shapes out of white paper. Put tempra paint (white, yellow, orange, black) in muffin tins (we use the aluminum ones) and then use REAL candy *Peeps* for the applicator! The head makes a perfect grip for small hands, and the bottom of the peep, dipped in paint, gives a sponge like effect. Of course, you should have Peeps for snacks, too! If you're concerned about someone taking a bite during the painting, you could always use vanilla pudding with food coloring to paint with! Great for an Easter or Springtime unit! 3-30-98 Name: Donna E-Mail: Mom557 Use different sizes of plastic eggs and several colors of paint. Let children dip halves of eggs in paint and it makes very colorful circles. 3-29-98 Name: Pat E-Mail: Pattypre@aol.com Colored water droplets - I got one of the soap holder with the little suction cups, 2 eye dropper bottles with one having red food colored water and the other with blue colored water and white paper towels cut into flower or rabbit shapes. The child drops either red or blue water onto the suction cups, one drop per cup. When the paper towel shape is placed onto the top of the water droplet covered soap holder, the colors blend to make purple. 3-29-98 Name: Joni E-Mail: jonicontant@sprint.ca URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/8787 Instead of using marbles or balls to paint in a container, use hard boiled eggs. The eggs get decorated and the paper gets decorated too. 3-23-98 Name: Denise E-Mail: Dhand1421@AOL.COM Cut out the shape of a jellybean for each child. Give each child 2 real jellybeans each and have them put it in the same color paint as the jelly beans are (yellow bean yellow paint). Put the paper jellybean on a tray and the 2 paint covered beans on top and let the children roll the beans to make a design. 3-17-98 Name: Bj. E-Mail: ggrey39@aol.com When the forsythia begins to bloom, we pretend we have cut some branches to bring into our class. We design our own vases to display the flowers. We show them some suggestions on shapes, decorations, etc. Then when each child has drawn their vase and colored it, they take brown paint and paint the long stems coming out of the vase. Yellow paint is dotted on for the flowers. They are so beautiful and colorful. 3-17-98 Name: Bj. E-Mail: ggrey39@aol.com For spring, when we talk about birds nesting, we go outside and gather twigs, dry grass, like birds do, to make a bird's nest. We glue the gathered items on a paper in the shape of a bird's nest and cut out some eggs to glue in the nest. 3-17-98 Name: Bj. E-Mail: ggrey39@aol.com Crayon resist makes beautiful Easter eggs. I read them Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco which is about Ukranian Eggs. We use crayons for the wax to make our own eggs. I give them a piece of construction paper with a large egg shape printed on it. They decorate their eggs with lots of designs, patterns, and colors. Pressing hard when coloring. Then paint over it with watered down black paint. I mix the paint and try it until I get the best consistancy. Be sure that they do not keep stroking the paint in the same spot or it will cover the crayon. Just one stroke of the brush all the way down the paper. Then another right next to the other, etc. 3-9-98 Name: Barbara E-Mail: tawse@erols.com We are starting on spring and Easter planning. One of our easter projects is to give each child an egg cut out of construction paper, lots of torn tissue paper and let them decorate at will. We use muffin tins and sticks for the glue rather than bottles. 3-1-98 Name: Sally E-Mail: Spinny002@aol.com You will need Wilton candy molds or a stoneware cookie mold in an Easter egg shape or other design. Tear up a piece of pink construction paper (or any color) into 1" pieces. Place in a blender with 1 cup of very warm water and let set for 10 minutes. Then process for 2 minutes on low and 1 minute on high until the paper is mushy and fibrous. Squeeze out most of the water and push this pulp into the molds. Press a sponge or paper towel onto the smooth side of the mold until most of the water is gone. Bake at 200 degrees for 1 hour or sit on top of a clothes dryer or other warm place for 2-3 days. Paper should pop out of molds using the tip of a sharp knife to loosen. If it doesn't come right out, it's not yet dry. These can be hung on Easter Egg trees or just used as refrigerator magnets or to make necklaces for the children. These can be painted with tempera or acrylics and decorated with glitter. These also make nice pins for Mother's Day if you glue a pin backing on the back side. This is a great project when cost is a factor. 2-19-98 Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16@aol Out of paper plate you can make a bunny mask. Cut holes out for the eyes. Draw on the nose, add felt strips or yarn for the whiskers, make a mouth and glue on 2 chicklets for the teeth, add ears that you have precut ( with the K's I let them cut out their own bunny ears) I use elastic to tie around the childs head. The children love it. (Make sure you tell your children not to eat the teeth (gum) because it will have glue on it. (With the younger children (3's) I used to let them glue on felt pieces for the teeth.) 2-9-98 Name: Kim E-Mail: KSchult933@aol.com Stain Glass Easter Egg First you would save the plastic that is the run off from the laminating machine. Cut out egg shapes from construction paper......Save the egg shapes for possible later project......but use the outline for this one. Set aside for now.... Next cut the laminating plastic to fit on the construction paper......... Glue to construction paper..........Then have children glue tissue paper (with watered down glue) to the plastic......When it dries.......hang in the window..... We sometimes make crosses the same way since we are a Christian preschool.
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