Wee Man and I did up some cards for family one evening this week. I like to make cards for all the occasions that one should need such a thing, so this year I decorated up the front (using scrap booking supplies) and he was given crayons (and yes - he dumped the entire container out onto the table...haha!) and stickers to do up the insides. I think in one evening we hammered through about 8 of them. I was pretty impressed how long he was willing to sit and work on them with me!
For the kids during the days this week, I decided to try some new craft ideas. We did 3 days of crafts and some baking and each time I brought out the Little Tykes table to start an activity they got so excited! I've dropped the ball lately on doing up crafts (as opposed to just pulling out paper & crayons) and their level of excitement reminded me that I really should mix it up more often with organized crafts.
The first one we did up was a 2-part activity. Originally I had no idea what this would turn out to be, I had just read about the idea of using markers on wet paper plates, but as the kids started working I thought about making them into bunnies-in-eggs!
We started out by using water-soaked paper plates (we used a large platter that I cut in half as that's all I had on hand which is where the shape came from) and felt markers. The markers bled out on the paper when the kids drew on them, so it gave the effect of water colour paints, with less mess than using actual water colour paint!
Because the plates were so wet I needed to leave them sit over night to dry. When they did, I cut out bunny shapes and glued them to the plates to make them look like they were sitting in eggs....I added googly-eyes and coloured cotton balls for tails and set the kids out to decorate them with Easter themed stickers and crayons:
The finished product turned out to be super cute. The kids were really proud of them and Wee Man loves the fact we hung his up on our dining room hutch! He is very excited about the Easter Bunny coming this weekend!!
Today we had a mini egg-hunt in the house to practise for the real thing this coming weekend (Wee Man's Grannie told me the Bunny will be making a stop there on Sunday!). I didn't have any little baskets for them, so I thought perhaps we could make some....
I started off by having them colour some sheets of card stock. Then, I folded and cut them to make a cube (those 3D Figure lesson pans I created a couple years back when I taught grade 4 have turned out to be useful this year, too!) and instead of folding the top portion over to complete the cube, I cut bunny ears out of it and left them sticking up. A quick twist of 2 colours of pipe cleaners for the handles and some googly-eyes and a little face drawn on the front, and VOILA - we had little bunny baskets to begin our hunt!! I hid about 20 little eggs and they had so much fun running around and finding them!
And finally, we did up some sugar cookies today as well to give away to some people as their little Easter gifts this weekend! The kids love baking so much, and decorating cookies turned out to be such a big hit at Christmas that I thought it was time to do it again. This time around they're a bit older, so when I told them we were "painting" the cookies first - and not eating them until later - they actually listened! They loved picking out the icing colours, dumping on the sprinkles! Of course, they each got to have 1 to eat as well..... ;-)
When the kids went down to nap this afternoon, I finished decorating up the rest of them. One of my favourite things to do! Here is the finished product:
Wishing you and yours a wonderful Easter! Happy Spring!!
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