The Easter bunny is coming THIS weekend! Get ready for a hopping celebration by making your very own bunny ears!
Supplies:
- Construction paper in white and pink
- Scissors
- Glue
- Stapler
Directions:
- Use white and pink construction paper to cut out bunny-ear shapes: two white and two pink, the pink being slightly smaller.
- Glue the pink ears onto the white ears.
- Glue the ears onto a long strip of construction paper, measure to fit your child’s head, and staple the ends together to form a headband.
Easter is just around the corner, time to decorate so a certain bunny knows how to find your house! With just three ingredients you can make these salt dough egg ornaments and let your kids decorate them!
Ingredients for Salt Dough:
- 4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup salt
- 1.5 cups warm water
Directions:
- Preheat your oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Combine all of your ingredients and knead for 10 minutes. If your dough is too dry add a little bit more water in and continue to knead.
- Roll out the dough to a thickness that you’d like your salt dough ornament to be.
- Cut out eggs (if you have a cookie cutter great, otherwise just use a knife and do your best!)
- Using a straw, make a hole in the top for where you want to hang your salt dough ornament.
- Bake for 1-2 hours. If your ornaments are still doughy, put back in for another hour. (It will depend on your thickness how long you need to bake for. The thinner ornaments will take less time but thicker may take more).
- Once cool, you can decorate! Use paints, glitter, glue on materials, whatever you have, get creative!
Today let’s make adorable little chicks! We’re sure everyone has done their fair share of painting with brushes and hands, but what about forks?!
Supplies:
- A plastic fork
- Yellow paint
- Googly eyes (or just draw on your own)
- Orange construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Black pen
Directions:
- Dip the back of your fork into yellow paint and print onto a piece of paper or card. Keep adding more and more prints, moving round in a circle to start making your little chick.
- Keep printing with your fork until you have covered a complete circle. Overlap the fork prints to make your chick nice and fluffy.
- Cut a small triangle of orange construction paper and glue in in place for the beak. Then stick on some fun googly eyes. If you don’t have googly eyes you can draw eyes on using your black marker.
- Use your black marker to add on some little legs for your chick and to complete your painting.
It may be tricky to get your hands on a bouquet of flowers these days but you can still make one! Brighten up this spring day with these easy egg carton flowers!
Supplies:
- Paint
- Egg carton
- straws (substitute sticks from outside or pipe cleaners if you don’t have straws)
- Pom poms (substitute acorns, pennies—anything round!)
- Scissors
- Glue
Directions:
- Adults, cut out four containers out of the egg carton. Trim around the edges so that it gives it a rounder shape for the petals of the flower.
- Squirt some paint colors onto a paper plate and have the kids paint their flowers. Use any colors you’d like. If you are using something other than a pom pom for your center, you may want to paint that too.
- After the paint’s dried you can attach the stem of the flower by gluing it to the back.
- Next choose a colored pom pom and glue that to the center of the painted egg carton
- Decide where to display your new flowers!
Decorate your Easter eggs with colorful pasta! This craft is not only fun, it’s super easy, so your little ones can do most of the work. Every egg SHOULD be different, so get creative, there’s no way to decorate wrong 🙂
Supplies:
- Cardboard or paper for eggs
- paint or markers
- pasta- penne, fusili, etc
- glue
Directions:
- You can either paint the pasta all together in advance or let your kids color in the pasta with markers piece by piece. If you choose to paint the pasta, put it into different zippered bags and then put different color paint in with each bag. Squish pasta around in bag to coat. Lay out to dry.
- Use the template below to trace and cut out your eggs—if you have it, use cardboard to create a sturdier egg.
- Paint or color your eggs. You can keep them all one color, or create designs. Use the templates below (they can be glued onto your cardboard) or create your very own designs.
- If you used paint, let your eggs dry.
- Glue on your pasta!
Today we are going to create our very own Starry Night. Show your child a picture of Van Gogh’s painting for inspiration! Don’t forget to send in your masterpiece to be showcased in our art show! [email protected]
Supplies:
- A piece of cardboard (guessing we all have some delivery boxes laying around lately!)
- Foil
- Tape
- Q Tips (you can also use small cars or trucks to drive through the paint)
- Paint (you can stick to just a few shades of blue and a white or add in yellow and black to try and recreate Starry Night)
- Plate or other surface to put your paint on
Directions:
- Wrap tin foil around your cardboard and tape it down.
- Put your different paint colors onto your plate
- Time paint! Dip your Q Tip or truck into the paint and move it around the tin foil
Here’s what you’ll need for the activity:
- poster or large sheets of construction paper/any type of paper
- marker/crayon/anything that you can write with
- items around the room
Before the activity, write all the lower-case alphabet letters (or upper case) on the poster with your marker.
Invite the children to look for things that start with the 26 letters. Once they find an item, they can place it on top of the letter on the poster.
It can be challenging to listen for beginning sounds, since some have similar sounds (such as c and k).
To make it easier, you can place objects around the room ahead of time to ensure there is an item for each letter (I recommend that for the letters q and x).
Happy Letter hunting!!!
Today we’re going to make some abstract art! Using marbles and paint we can create beautiful one-of-a-kind artwork like Jackson Pollock’s famous spatter paintings. Don’t forget to send in your masterpiece so we can showcase it in the art show! [email protected]
Materials
- Marbles
- Paint
- Muffin tin, egg carton, or small bowls to hold the paints
- Spoons
- Paper
- Shallow cardboard box or a baking dish
Directions
- Put different color paints in the muffin tin sections (or egg carton or bowls) and place a sheet of paper in your shallow box or baking dish
- Drop marbles into the paint colors. Use your spoons to mix them around so they get coated in the paint. (you can use as many or as little marbles as you like)
- Using your spoons, scoop up your paint covered marbles and put them into your box with the paper
- Start painting! Move the box around to make the marbles roll and paint a masterpiece!
- If you need more paint, drop marbles back into paint and repeat.
Supplies:
- 1 sheet of bright paper 11″ x 14″ for the background
- 2 5.5″x 7″ rectangles of bright paper (different colors than your background)
- 4 5.5″x 7″ rectangles of bright paper (assorted brights so that the hands cut from these papers are different than the backgrounds)
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Black paint
- Paper plate or alternative option to hold paint
Directions:
- Select one 11″ x 14″ piece of bright paper for their background. In the above image, the background piece is yellow.
- Then select two rectangles (5.5″ x 7″ each) these needed to be different than their background paper. Glue down to the background so that it appeared the background is divided into four sections. For a reference, in the photo, we used a blue and a green rectangle, allowing yellow background color to show in other areas.
- Stack four rectangles (each 5.5″ x 7″) of assorted colors (you can staple or clip them together so they hold) and trace your hand onto the stack. Cut through all four at once with scissors to create four identical hand shapes.
- Remove the staples or clip, arrange onto the background and glue down using the glue stick. Glue the fingers down well so they don’t curl off of the page.
- Put some black paint onto a paper plate and lay your hand in it and then stamp onto each hand glued to your project.
Don’t forget to send in your final project to have it featured in our art show at the end of the week! [email protected]
