Workshop Wednesday

One more Easter activity. Have fun!

Hand Print Whiskers for Bunny
Materials:
1 large sheet of construction paper

brown or white, pink, off-white, black construction paper for bunny
scissors
paper punches (optional)
glue
sharpie
black paint
paint brush

Directions:
1. using your white or brown paper cut out a bunny face shape and glue it to your large cardstock.
2. using your pink paper, cut out a cute nose and some inner ears and glue on bunny.
3. using a small circle punch or scissors, punch 2 eyes out of your off-white paper and glue on bunny.
4. using a hole punch or scissors, punch 2 small circles out of your black paper and glue to middle of eyes.
5. using your sharpie, draw on a mouth.
6. paint your child's palms black and have them stamp them on the bunny to make whiskers. Allow to dry.



Idea taken from Jill Dubien



Workshop Wednesday

Matching Letters with Cracked Eggs

Materials: colored paper (scrap paper or construction paper); marker; scissors

Directions: Draw an egg shape on the colored paper. Cut egg out and then cut egg in half (cut each egg in half using different shapes). Write an uppercase letter on the top part of the egg and the lowercase letter on the bottom part of the egg. Place egg halves in a basket and have children match. Simple but fun!

Make & Take Monday

Make your Easter Grass

To make your own Easter grass, you will need construction paper (any color you like) and a paper shredder.  (Five sheets of each color of construction paper make the amount of Easter grass to fill about half of a shoebox sized container.) After you shred each color, empty the container into a basket then start the new color so the colors do not get all mixed up.
And there you have it – your very own home made Easter grass! I hope you like it!



Once you have your grass you can create many activities for your children.

Ideas taken from Deborah Stewart.

Workshop Wednesday

Hand Print Chicks

Materials: construction paper (1 sheet for the main page and then yellow, orange, white, black); scissors; glue; yellow paint; paint brush
Directions:
1. Trace and cut a chick's body from yellow and glue on the main paper
2. Trace and cut the chick's head feathers, beak, and legs from orange paper and glue to the chick's body
3. Cut two circles from white for eyes and glue on the chick's head
4. Cut out two black pupils for the eyes and glue on paper (or use a hole punch)
5. Paint the child's palms yellow and stamp them on each side of the little chick for feathers

Workshop Wednesday

Rotten Egg Game

Materials: egg stickers to make the gameboards and game pieces; cardstock; plastic eggs; small easter basket. Place the stickers on cardstock strips. Place matching stickers on cardstock and cut out so they will fit in a plastic egg.

Directions: Two children may play this game.  To play, they each take a gameboard and then take turns opening one egg at a time.  If the egg contains a paper egg that matches one on their board, they place it on their gameboard and place the empty shell off to the side.  If they open the "rotten" (black) egg, they must put it back and also put one egg from their board back into the basket.  If they open an egg that doesn't match any on their board, they also return it to the basket.  Play continues until one player has matched all their eggs.



Taken from My Montessori Journey