EASTER FUN
Bunny Baskets
Supplies: Empty Clean Milk Carton, Construction Paper, Glue, Crayons or Markers
Bottom 1/3 of a milk carton. Staple a 1" strip across the top for a handle. Cut out bunny shapes; sitting up bunny - ears on top, round head and fat body. Make sure it is the width of the milk carton (a bit like the traditional cat drawing). Decorate the basket with paper chips (small pieces of paper cut or torn) and draw on bunny's face. You can also paint the basket with glue and dip it into a container of confetti. Glue on a cotton ball on the opposite side of basket for bunny's tail.
Easter Bonnets
Supplies: Paper plate, Styrofoam plates, Glue, Crayons or Markers, Misc. Supplies
Make Easter bonnets from styrofoam soup bowls stapled to paper plates that have the center cut out of them. Let the children decorate them as desired. Supply them with cut out flowers, ribbon, and anything else you like
Rabbit Head Bands
Supplies: Construction Paper, Glue
Cut out a strap long enough to fit around child’s head. Cut rabbit ears, using white and pink construction paper. Glue or staple onto the strap, and make it into a head band.
Colored Eggs
Supplies: Colored Eggs, Tissue/Crepe Paper
Wet the egg and place pieces of colored tissue paper on it. Set it aside to dry. When the egg dries the tissue paper falls off and the colors stay behind. ---submitted by Bobbie Lee.
Filter Paper Eggs
Supplies: Coffee Filters, Food Coloring, Eye Droppers and Straws
Precut egg shapes out of coffee filters. Mix water and yellow food coloring and place mixture in a baby food jar. Do the same for blue. Let the children use eyedroppers or straws to drip colors on the filter shape. The colors will run together and make beautiful eggs.
Cottony lambs
Supplies: Black construction Paper, Cotton Balls, White Chalk
Have the child trace their hands on the black paper. Cut these out, placing the "hands" upside down so that the four fingers are the legs and the thumb is the head. Have the kids glue cotton balls to the "body". Use chalk or construction paper or whatever to make the eyes. ---submitted by Jena.
Lambs
Supplies: White Paper, Black Paint, Glue, Packing Popcorn, etc.
Use black paint on the hands and stamp them on a white piece of paper, then decorate. The lambs look cute with packing popcorn" or white paper reinforcements make great "wool". Also, left-over batting or stuffing can be used. ---submitted by Barb in Iowa.
Bunnies in the Grass
Supplies: White Paper, Crayons, Glue, Pom-poms or cotton balls
Color a white sheet of paper all green (scribbling is just perfect) that have them glue on 10-15 1/2" pom poms or pieces of cotton balls - ta da you now have "Baby Bunnies Hiding in the Grass!!" ---submitted by Leslie.
Bunny Basket
Supplies: 2 Leter Bottle, Felt, Wiggle Eyes, Glue, Pom-pom or cotton ball
Take a clear 2 leter pop bottle take off the bottom support if there is one. Cut the bottle in half so you remove the opening. Next cut down on the bottle till there is about 3-4" left which will be the body. Move left or right about 4-5" and cut down the same distance. Remove this section that is loose. Go to the opposite side and diagonally cut two pointed ears (don't cut them off). Cut out pink felt and glue on to the plastic ears. Glue on eyes (wiggle or paper), pink triangle felt nose (or paper) with little strips of white paper to resemble whiskers. Don't forget the cotton ball or white pompom for the tail! Fill with Easter grass.
Bird Nest Cupcakes
Favorite cake mix, and frosting, Long strand coconut, jelly beans (pastel Easter colors)
Bake your cupcakes. When cool frost with white or chocolate frosting. Decorate with coconut around the outside circle of cupcake. Place colored jelly beans in center. Coconut can be toasted if you prefer a brown nest!
Bunny Biscuits
1 8oz refrig. biscuits, 10 raisins, 5 cinnamon candies, 20 slivered almonds, 1 tube pink dec. icing
Separate biscuits and place 5 on greased sheet. cut remaining in half to make ears. press raisins on for eyes, cinnamon for a nose, almonds for whiskers. Bake 8-10 min.at 375' makes 5
Submitted by: Deb
Edible Playdough
1 cup powdered dry milk, 1 cup creamy peanut butter, 1 cup honey
Mix and chill. Allow kids to shape with hands or cookie cutters. Decorate if you like. makes 2 1/2 cups
Submitted by: Deb
Easter Nests
1- 7oz marshmallow creme, 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter, 2 tbs butter, 1 can (5 oz) chow mein noodles, 1 cup pastel m & m's
Beat mashmallow creme and peanut butter, and butter. Fold in noodles and mm's. chill. Form on wax paper by 1/3 cupfuls into 3 in. nests. chill 30 min. Place more mm's or jelly beans in nest. makes 9.
Submitted by: Deb
Spoon Walk
Put an egg (can also use a marshmallow) on a spoon and walking across an area; make an obstacle course if you like. Can also play where you have to pass it to a partner to go back to the beginning is fun. If the egg is dropped, you have to start over. Grown ups have to put the spoon in their mouths. You can also play hide and seek: all of the people who are hiding must balance an object on a spoon as they dash for a hiding spot. If it falls, that's where they have to hide.
Animal Relay
The players form two lines with equal numbers on each team. The first animal on each team is an animal, the second a different animal. On the word "go", the first person acts like the animal they represent, run, hop or crawl to a given place and back. The next person then acts like their animals and so on until one team is finished and sitting down. Use animals such as kangaroos, bunnies, dogs, cats ect... Bean Bag Relays - Walk/run/hop with bag on head/between knees/between feet. Leap Frog - Well...... You know. falls, that's where they have to hide.
Duck races
Players line up on a start line. At the signal, they must all bend over and grasp their ankles. The first one to waddle to the finish line without letting go of their ankles, wins.
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