Easter

Easter

Learning Activities

Easter Bunny Name Writing

Skills:  Name writing, letter recognition

I traced and cut out Easter Bunny Heads from pink and yellow construction paper.

I drew on the facial features

Joey and Tana glued the cut-outs to a strip of construction paper.

Tana wrote her own name and Joey spelled his name while I wrote it!

Do The Bunny Hop

A CVC Word Game

Skills:  reading, cvc words

Here is the link for Do the Bunny Hop!

Easter Egg Number Match

Skills:  number recognition, counting, number order

We did this activity last year too!  This year Tana joined in on the activity.  We have been working on number recognition 1-5 with her.  I had Addie match up the rest of the numbers 6-12.

Directions:

I labeled the top half of each egg with a number (1-12) and the bottom half with dots (1-12)

A Match

More matching

Then they put the completed eggs in number order 1-12

Projects

 Easter Bunny Countdown Chain

Addie wanted to make a countdown to Easter.  We decided on doing a paper chain countdown.  There are 18 more days until Easter so we needed 18 strips of paper.

Directions:  Cut out 1 inch strips of white paper

Make the strips into loops and staple them to make a countdown chain.

On the top loop, glue on ears and draw a bunny face!

Easter Chick Stamping with Wine Corks

Press a wine cork into yellow paint.

Press the paint covered cork onto white paper

Use a toothpick to draw on the wings/feathers

When dry, draw on the feet, beak and eyes!

Keely using the cork to stamp out her Easter Chicks!

Easter Egg Bunnies!

I saw this cute project in Parents Magazine.  Here is the link for this cute Easter Bunny project.

The Front of the Bunnies!

The Backsides!

Fingerprint Sheep

Cut out a head and feet from black construction paper.  

Tie a bow from ribbon

Directions:  Glue the head and feet to a 5x7 piece of construction paper.

Dip your pointer finger into white paint and press your painted finger all around the sheep's head.  Glue on googly eyes and the bow.

Hand print Carrots

Cut an orange triangle from construction paper.

Cut squares of orange tissue paper

Paint both hands green and press hands onto green paper, making three hand prints.

Directions:  Glue orange tissue squares onto the triangle.

Cut around the hand prints and glue the hand prints to make the stem for the carrot.

Footprint Bunnies

Trace both feet onto colored construction paper.

Cut out the footprints and glue them onto construction paper.  Overlap the heels.

Glue on googly eyes, button nose and chenille stem whiskers.  

Footprint Carrot and Bunny

Paint 1 foot orange and the other foot pink or blue or whatever color!

Press both feet onto white paper - make sure the orange foot is placed toes up.

When dry add the details

Fingerprint Bunnies

Cut a circle from white paper

Tie a bow with yarn or ribbon

Directions:  Glue the circle onto construction paper.

Glue on googly eyes, a button nose and the ribbon.

Cover a fingertip with white paint and press it onto the paper to make two bunny ears.

Draw on whiskers and a mouth

Happy Mother's Day

Mother's Day and Flowers!

Mother's Day Crafts

Flower Finger Print Bookmarks

The poem:  To My Mom

This pretty flower that you see

was made for you by me.

My finger made the flower part,

showing love from all my heart.

Happy Mother's Day

2013

Press index finger into green paint and onto the book mark to make the stem of the flower

Press finger into pink paint and then onto the bookmark to make the petals for the flower

 

Thum-body loves me

Type the Thum-Body Loves You poem and print it off (the poem is below)

Press thumb on an ink pad or in paint and then onto the paper.

 

Mother's Day Button Flower Pots!

I bought a multi-color pack of flower pots from our local Dollar Store

The kids used buttons to make flowers on their pots to give to for Mother's Day

We even planted flowers - from seed!

 

Sponge Painted Flowers

 Cut out different colored circles from construction paper and green stems from construction paper

Glue the circles and stems onto 11 x 13 white paper.

Dip rectangular shaped sponges into paint and press onto the paper to make flowers.

 

Thumbprint Hyacinth

Cut green leaves for the stem/leaves of the flower

Glue the leaves to a piece of white paper

Use a green marker to draw the stem of the flower

Press thumb into purple paint and press onto both sides of the stem to make the hyacinth

 

Tissue Paper Flowers

Cut tissue paper into squares

Accordion fold each piece of tissue paper

Stack the pieces  and wrap a green pipe cleaner around the stack to secure them into place - The pipe cleaner will also be the stem

Fan out the pieces to make the flower

Finger print flowers

Cut a flower shape out of colored construction paper - you will need two per child

Press a finger into paint (any color) and press the finger on the petals and in the middle

When dry, tape a green pipe cleaner to the backside of one of the flowers

Glue the other flower on top, so you have two sides and the pipe cleaner is secure

 

Flower Learning Activities

How Does Your Garden Grow?

 

I typed the following:  _______, _______ (insert name two times) how does your garden grow?

I also type and printed off the number's 1-5 along with a sheet full of flowers that I then cut out

Addie glued each  number an 11 x 13 piece of construction paper

She glued the corresponding number of flowers underneath each number (she also colored each flower - pink of course!)

 

 

Flower Petal Count

 

Cut out 4 construction paper circles and multiple petals

Roll a dice.  Count the number on the dice and write it on a circle. 

Glue on the corresponding number of petals to make a flower.  Glue the completed flower to the paper!

 Beginning Sound Flower Pots!

Cut out 5 flower pots from brown construction paper.  Cut out 5 green stems and 5 flowers from different colored construction paper.
Print off different picture's - 2 for each beginning sound.  I did Q - queen and quilt, W - watch and whale, R -  reindeer and robot, H - house and helicopter, Y - yo-yo and yogurt
Assemble the pots and flowers and glue them to construction paper.
Find a pair of matching beginning sound pictures and glue teach picture to a flower pot.  Write the correct beginning letter sound on the flower.  Repeat until all of the flower pots are completed!

Pretty Pussy Willows!

The idea for these pretty pussy willows come from the April 2012 issue of Family Fun magazine. 
Directions:  I drew  long, sloping stems with brown marker on a sheet of white paper.  I added short lines along the sides of the the stems.  Addie and Tana pressed their index fingers onto a black washable ink pad for the catkins. 

Materials Needed:  white paper, brown marker, black, washable ink pad