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ACTIVITY IDEAS
Easter activity
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Easter Egg Hunt Basket
An Easter egg hunt is an essential Easter activity. As well as being fun for the children, it also involves a child’s gross
motor skills, cognitive skills, coordination and decision-making. Hide small eggs around the garden and then give each
child an Easter basket and let them race around collecting as many eggs as possible. With the older children, provide
them with clues to the hiding spots. Egg boxes make the perfect baskets for collecting Easter eggs!
To turn an egg box into a basket all you need is:
Paint
Scissors
A4 sized card or paper
Instructions
1. Cut the lid off your egg box, paint the bottom half and leave to dry.
2. Cut an inch strip, length ways to be used as a handle.
3. Use the rest of the card to make strips which can be used as shredded paper for the bottom of the basket. Green
card works well to create blades of grass.
4. Staple the strip cut earlier to either side of the egg box creating a handle and you’re done!
Easter Bunny Paper Plate
An Easter bunny paper plate craft is so simple and perfect for toddlers or pre-schoolers to make! The children can help
cut out the bunny ears, glue the parts together, as well as draw the bunny’s features. This activity focuses on a child’s
fine and gross motor skills whilst also developing their imagination and creativity.
What you will need:
White and pink paper
Pom poms
Pipe cleaners
Googly eyes
Small paper plates
Glue
Instructions
1. Take 3 pipe cleaners and twist them around each other in the centre so that they are connected together. This will
act at the bunny’s whiskers.
2. Glue the whiskers to the paper plate and then glue the pom pom to the centre of the whiskers. The pom pom will be
the bunny’s nose.
3. Cut out bunny shaped ears with white paper and then use the pink paper to cut out slightly smaller ears. Next, glue
the pink ears to the white ears and glue this to the top of the paper plate.
4. Glue on the googly eyes or alternatively draw them on.
5. Draw the bunny’s mouth underneath the whiskers.
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