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Contact_FullName: Theresa
Contact_Email: msblueeyes109@yahoo.com
date:: 03/20/03
Area: Easter- misc activities
Idea:
Great for snack and science!! Buy package of Peeps. Take small group of children into kitchen to microwave. Place one peep on a paper plate and put in microwave. Ask the kids what is gonna happen to the marshmallow. Then once they hypothesize, turn on the micro for about 20 seconds. The peep will expand to about %300 times it's original size. And when it had cooled off, I allow the kids to take off a piece and eat it. Tastes great!!
Contact_FullName: kelly
Contact_Email: kellinton@hotmail.com
date:: 02/27/02
Area: Easter
Idea:
Easter Egg Bunny:
items needed: Styrofoam egg, 4 pipe cleaners, sparkles, 1 very small and 1 medium pompom, 2 googley eyes
Start by putting some glue on the egg and rolling it in the sparkles. While that is drying cut one pipe cleaner in 2 and bend each in half to make ears. Cut another pipe cleaner in half for the arms. For each leg use a whole pipe cleaner and twist it around a pencil to get a spiral effect (for springy legs). Now poke the pipe cleaners into the Styrofoam egg to assemble your bunny. Add the eyes, a small pompom nose and a pompom tail and you are done!
Contact_FullName: Lisa
Contact_Email: jlthomp@thegateway.net
date:: 03/07/03
Area: Easter-art :misc
Idea:
I spray paint large coffee cans white. I paint bunny faces on and hot glue ears made with poster board. I drill holes in the each side and use a strong craft wire to make handles. I stuff with Easter grass and the kids have the cutest Easter bucket to hunt eggs with and they love, so do the parents!
Contact_FullName: Diane From MT
Contact_Email:
date:: 03/01/03
Area: Easter Misc
Idea:
I didn't see this under activites - but maybe is still there. I originally got the idea from your board and adapted it.
The Easter Egg Jelly Bean shop. We did ours a little different because we were working with older kids in 3rd grade - but same basic idea. I gave each child 10 penny's. Although they did the same for the little kids I made the kids count 3 jelly beans for each penny and chart out how much they spent per day. No one was allowed to spend more than $0.03 per day because then they would spend it all in one day and I wanted them to work at it a little hard than that. So each day they got their minimum to the max - you didn't have to buy one day was also an option - so they then figured out how much they could spend because the first day many spent the entire $0.03 and had to figure how they would have money for the last day. It was a good match tool. We had lots of help from the room because we were in a PICC class where the parents participate, so each day there were 5 different brands of Jelly Beans to choose from. The kids loved it and the first day took a long time but after that it went fast. I opened the Jelly Bean shop each day. One of the mom's thought that if you gave them a plastic egg they could keep their money in there. I didn't think of that. Along with that I gave them baggies so they could keep their jelly beans in them. It really was fun and the kids remember it well.
Contact_FullName: Diane
Contact_Email: bdtliv@msn.com
date:: 03/01/03
Area: Easter Art
Idea:
Okay don't know if this was posted as I only go through 1/2 the posts and remembered doing this. You can get Sweet Grass as the pet stores for cats - plant it and you can actually watch it grow - within the time it starts it grows maybe 1/2 an inch a day. Is fun to watch and then you could put some Easter eggs in the container you paint it (it doesn't last long after it reaches its peak point which is 3-4 inches and about a two week time frame if I remember correctly.
Contact_FullName: Diane
Contact_Email: bdtliv@msn.com
date:: 03/01/03
Idea:
You get the packages of gum (such as Wriggly) and wrap it up like a gift in yellow construction paper. To one long side. Then you add two wiggly eyes, an orange beak (from craft foam).
To the very top you add a little white curling ribbon curled and you have a duck.
Contact_FullName: Adrianne
Contact_Email: anessen60@hotmail.com
date:: 04/17/02
Area: Easter
Idea:
These turn out to be the cutest Easter baskets. We made them for our Easter egg hunt. Take an empty milk carton. Remove stickers. With the handle facing the back, draw a head and ears on the front. The two circles that are indented into the plastic become the eyes. Cut around the ears, leaving the handle on, so that it can be carried. Now you have a bunny face. Glue on eyes, nose and pink paper for the ears. Place a cotton ball on the back for the tail and fill with Easter grass. They are sooo easy and really cute when you are finished. Good luck.
Contact_FullName: Diane
Contact_Email: bdtliv@msn.com
date:: 3/28/02
Area: Easter fun
Idea:
I used Sweat Oats you can pick up at any pet store - are actually for cats - but makes cool looking grass. What is more amazing is how fast it grows - I was in shock and my son's grew the fastest and was planted a week later. You can put eggs in the grass - they recommend using a shallow saucer you use for plants and fill it up with lots of seed - other wise it will look sparse.
The kids will love to watch it grow.
- Name:
- Celeste
- sooner12@swbell.net
4-24-01
Get a jump start on next month by having fun with the first day of spring. Have your kids take a cheap Easter basket, line it with a clear bag punch a few holes in it the bottom of the bag. Fill the basket half way with potting soil. Have your kids spread grass seed on top and have them water it. Within a few days they will see the sprouts and by Easter they will have a very cute basket of grass to hunt eggs with.
- Contact_FullName:
- Kari
- Contact_Email:
- karimac1999@ivillage.com
4-20-00
Toothpaste Putty (A Manipulative idea for Dental Month)
ingredients: 2.5 ml toothpaste (creamy, not gel) 5 ml of white glue 10 ml dry laundry starch 1 ml water
Combine and knead well.
This is a really soft "minty" putty. I work with the preschool age and the kids really enjoy it. Due to it being Easter time, the putty can be stored in the colorful plastic Easter eggs so each child can have their own putty. This recipe makes 1 egg of putty for 1 child.
- Contact_FullName:
- Laura
- Contact_Email:
- lccgalvan@aol
4-18-00
Easter baskets Take large coffee cans and spray paint them white, let children paint grass (With green paint) all the way around the bottom on the can let children sponge paint Easter eggs near the grass on the bottom. They turn out really cute!
(Daylene's note: this is a great activity for teachers to make for their kiddos for an Easter present.)
- Contact_FullName:
- Kristen
- Contact_Email:
- kcordes@kc.rr.com
4-18-00
Rubber Egg
You'll need: 1 uncooked egg in its shell, jar with a lid, white vinegar
Place egg inside the jar. Make sure that it does not crack.
Pour enough vinegar into the jar to cover the egg. Screw on the lid.
Leave the egg in the jar for three days. Every once in a while, check on the egg. Notice how it's changing.
After three days, take the egg out of the jar.
What happens - When you put the egg into the vinegar - you will see bubbles. After three days the shell of the egg is gone - and the egg has gotten bigger.
Why? The shell is made of limestone. When the acid in the vinegar touches the shell, there is a chemical reaction. The shell breaks down during this reaction creating gases including carbon dioxide, which causes the bubbles you see.
Vinegar has water in it. The water moves through the teeny, holes in the eggs membrane. The process in osmosis. As more water goes inside the egg, it gets bigger. This is the same way nutrients move into your body's cells.
Idea from Mailbox Super Science
(Daylene's Note: <LOL> This works great!!! My 12-year-old did this for her science project last year. However, be sure not to close the egg up tightly in a Ziploc bag. It will explode!! However, it might be fun to do this as a supplemental science experience <VBG>.)
- Contact_FullName:
- Pat
- Contact_Email:
- telsra . com . au
Date: 4-10-00
Get an old headband cover it in white cotton then cut out card board ears and cover them in white cotton but leave the middle so that you can fill it in with pink cotton. You will be turned into a Easter bunny.
- Contact_FullName:
- Dolores (Dee)
- Contact_Email:
- mamabear@stargate.net
Date: 4-10-00
We're all ears, nose and tail.
Materials egg carton, white paint, black marker, glue stick, pom-pom, pipe cleaners, hole punch, sewing elastic, headband, glue gun, cotton batting, embroidery needle, yarn
Bunny nose: Cut a cup from an egg carton, leaving a tab of extra material on one side for teeth. Trim the cup's edges and paint the teeth white, drawing a black gap between them. Glue on a pom-pom nose (pink of course) For whiskers, cut pipe cleaners into three pieces. Poke three holes on either side the nose with a pencil, then feed the pipe cleaner whiskers through the holes. Make air vents with punch along the cup's bottom. Keep the nose on tight with an elastic knotted through holes poked in the cup's side. Bunny ears: Cut out the edges of the egg carton top and glue them to a head-band with a glue gun. Bunny tail: Form batting into a cottontail, then sew a length of yarn through it with an embroidery needle. Tie around the waist. The day care children and I will be making these for Easter. They will be the cutest Bunny's around.
- Contact_FullName:
- Dolores (Dee)
- Contact_Email:
- mamabear@stargate.net
Date: 4-8-00
A basket from a gallon milk bottle. Cut a large circle from the front of the bottle using scissors or an x-acto knife, leaving enough at the bottom so that the goodies don't fall out. Cover the whole bottle except the bottom and the handle, with cotton balls. using craft colored foam, make ears, With pink and white, Eyes use white foam to make a upside down U shape so you can glue a large plastic moveable eye onto. Make a bow, if it is for a girl make a pink one and glue it just above the opening at the top of the bottle for a hair bow. I print their names on the bow. If it is for a boy make a blue bow and glue it at the bottom of the bottle to make a bow tie. Glue the whiskers at the very edge of the top of the bottle and glue a large pink pompom on top of the whiskers. Finish by gluing the ears and eyes on. You now have a very nice Large mouth bunny. I made 5 of my grand children one for Easter.
- Contact_FullName:
- karen
- Contact_Email:
- klawson@bellsouth.net
Date: 4-8-00
I fill a small, plastic wading pool with Easter grass and place in in my book corner. My class loves to read in the basket which later becomes a nest.
- Contact_FullName:
- Sheila
- Contact_Email:
- sheroberson@hotmail.com
Date: 4-8-00
I run a daycare from my home and I find the kids love wearing hats or dressing up. We are going to make bunny ears this week. You just need to cut a strip of construction paper about 2-3cm thick and bunny ears (I do the ears with a different color). Have the kids decorate it with whatever they want and then staple or tape the ears on the strip. Fun fur would even be cute to glue onto the inside of the ears, but you would need to use stiffer paper for the ears.
- Contact_FullName:
- Chris
- Contact_Email:
- cmbhood@aol.com
Date: 3-15-00
Milk Carton Easter Bunny Basket Take a small cardboard milk carton, cut it in 1/2 , cover it with white cotton balls, add extras at flat end to make a tail, cut out eyes, ears, nose, and whiskers out of construction paper or fun foam, attach a pipe cleaner for the handle, and insert grass, add favorite goodies and enjoy.
- Contact_FullName:
- Jo
- Contact_Email:
- jbrewster@tds.net
Date: 3-7-00
I teach preschool and have found that toddlers love this idea. Hide plastic Easter eggs in your sensory table that has been filled with Easter Grass. I usually provide them with a plastic pail to put their eggs in and each egg contains a surprise (Candy, etc) Note: please be aware of items that they might get choked on. This activity always equates to smiles and laughs.
- Contact_FullName:
- sue
- Contact_Email:
- sueteachdirect@netscape.net
2-23-00
Strawberry baskets make great Easter Baskets. Fill with Easter grass, or let children tear green construction paper into strips for grass. Decorate the sides with cotton balls, bunny face with whiskers, or crepe paper. A pipe cleaner can be used for a handle.
- Contact_FullName:
- Marcy
- Contact_Email:
- w-marcy@hotmail.com
Date: 2-7-00
Our Easter bulletin board this year will read, "Check Out These 'Egg-straordinary" Kids!" Each child will decorate an egg shaped poster board picture frame with bits of crumpled tissue paper in bright spring colors. When finished, we'll glue a photo to the back of each frame and attach them to the bulletin board.
- Name:
- Melissa
- E-Mail:
- Swallows@duo-county.com
- Name:
- Bonnie Taylor
- E-Mail:
Date: 3-18-99
At the preschool my daughter attends, they have an Easter Basket raffle each year. Each child donates an item such as a towel, toys, washcloths, cleaning supplies etc. they are also encouraged to get a business to donate an item.
Date: 3-18-99
Easter bunny basket Get a baby formula can, clean and peel off the label, let the children decorate the outside with white cotton balls. glue on big wiggly eyes a pink pom pom for a nose and cut teeth from construction paper. add a pink or blue tail then you have an Easter basket
4-10-98
Name: Robin E-Mail: rlhfl9080@AOL.com
This idea is to "catch them doing something kind". Using the small plastic eggs put in a basket of Easter grass. Fill them with different fun things. As you "catch a child doing something kind, or on task. Let them go egg hunt in the prepared egg basket. They keep the treat and you keep the empty egg ( to fill later). You will have a class of great friends and helpers!
4-10-98
Name: Alison E-Mail: hornes@mounet.com.
At the Preschool that I am Director of, we have a spring sing and hat parade just before Easter. The parents are responsible for helping their child decorate a special hat to wear. The children proudly display their hats one by one for all the parents and friends. My daughter (4 years old) and I came up with a idea for her hat. We bought a white sun hat at the local store, and brought it home and used food coloring and water to mix up 3 different colors. She took a medicine dropper and painted her hat with all 3 colors (letting the colors mix). We let it dry overnight. She had requested a butterfly to be on it so we bought a very inexpensive small butterfly to attach to the front (any small spring item would work.) The hat turned out great and she was able to do most of herself. This project was very inexpensive total $5.00 in all and she was proud of her accomplishment.
3-29-98
Name: Cindi E-Mail: CLB42856@mintcity.com
HANGING YARN EASTER EGG (An activity for older children)
You need: round balloons, 3" to 12" pieces of scrap yarn, liquid starch.
Blow up a round balloon, soak the yarn scraps in liquid starch until wet. One piece at a time, lay the wet yarn on the balloon, placing them in all directions and overlapping them until the balloon is about 75% covered. Let dry by hanging from a line over newspaper. When dry, pop the balloon and remove from egg. You can hang these from the ceiling or cut a hole in the front and place easter grass and surprises inside.
VARIATIONS: using masking tape tape a jar lid to the bottom of the balloon to give it a flat surface, using crochet thread, continually wrap the balloon with crochet thread until at least 75% covered, be sure to wrap in all directions. Soak the covered balloon in liquid starch until soaked, let dry by hanging over newspaper. Once again, you may sit these these out for display, or cut a hole in the front and place easter grass ans surprises inside. This works best for older children due to the long winding technique when using crochet thread.
3-26-98
Name: Mary E-Mail: teacoll@juno.com
For Easter, I put Easter grass in my sand table and take plastic eggs, small and large, and seperate them. Have the children hunt for the egg halves that match (by color and size) and put the eggs together.
3-23-98
Name: Pat E-Mail: pattypre@aol.com
The Counting Jar -
Get a jar of counters, a bowl and some pre-written papers that say: "I counted ______ jelly beans." (change counters according to months such as silver stars, marshmallows, candy hearts, etc.). Child dumps counters into the bowl and counts them back into the jar. Adult writes down the last sequenced number the child counted to on their paper. Child may have 1 jelly bean to eat; from another container, that is.
3-20-98
Name: Lynne E-Mail: Mrslynne@aol.com
We made living easter baskets out of white decorated styrofoam bowls, added a handle with staples and Oak tag. We planted grass seed...(Rye is VERY good) water and cover with plastic wrap, or put in a large baggie. Let the baskets sit in the sun, wait only a few days for grass to sprout, remove baggies, and add plastic eggs filled with goodies, we used goldfish crackers.
Have fun, these are great! and last a VERY long time. some of our parents planted theirs in the lawn when they were through!
