Easter Week: Monday

Easter Week

Monday

Crafts:

• Easter Egg: Foam crafts, ribbon, glue, acrylic rhinestones, sequins, scissors,  thin cardboard, pencil

1. Make two egg shapes on a piece of thin cardboard(one big and one just a bit smaller than the big one).  Cut out shapes. Use these as tracers.
2. Trace a big one and smaller one for each egg.  Make sure they are two different colors.  Cut out shapes. 
3. Glue smaller on top of bigger one.  
4. Cut out 3 waves to decorate the egg.  Glue on top of egg.
5. Glue sequins and rhinestones onto egg.
6. Glue ribbon on back for hanging.

• Handprint Bunny Keepsake:  Foam craft, white washable finger paint, scissors, gogglie, pink pom pom

1. Cut out a bunny face out of white foam.  Make a face on the face foam.  Use gogglie eyes for the eyes.  Pink pom pom for the nose.
2. Glue face onto the bottom part of a piece of foam. 
3. Make different colored squares out of pieces of craft foam. Glue the onto the sides of the foam piece with the bunny face.  
4. At the bottom cut out a rectangular shape(the same size as the squares).  Then right your child's name and the year 2010.
5. Then have your child dip both their hands into the white paint and press it above the bunny face to make the ears of the bunny. 
6. You can also put carrot and egg shapes made of craft foam on top of the squares.

• Holiday Easter Wreath: Paper plate, cool-temperature glue gun, embelishments and treasures, green construction paper or green tissue paper, scissors, yellow and white pompoms, gogglie eyes, orange and white pipe cleaners, jelly beans, tiny pink pom poms, black string

1. Cut hole in center of paper plate to resemble a wreath.
2. Cut paper into strips to look like grass.  Glue onto plate.  
3. Glue yellow pom pom onto the wreath.  Cut a small piece of orange pipe cleaner, bend it in half to make the beak.  Glue on the eyes.  You can make more chicks if you want.
4. Glue white pom pom onto the wreath.  Cut small pipe cleaners and fold them around to make the ears of the rabbit.  Cut pieces of black string to make whiskers.  Glue on pom pom. Glue on tiny pink pom for nose, on top of string.  Glue on eyes.  If you do not want to make the bunny and chick then just glue on the bunny and chick toys. 
5. Glue jelly beans on.
6. Take a piece of ribbon and put it into the center hole and tie the pieces together to form the hanging device. 

Activities:

• Chalk Easter Picture: Sugar, water, pastel chalk, construction paper

1. Mix one part sugar with three parts water.  Pour the mixture into a shallow container.
2. Next, pick out some pastel chalks for your picture.  Soak the chalks in the mixture for about five minutes.  
3. Then, draw an Easter scene on construction paper using the wet chalks. Dip the chalks into the mixture as you go to keep them wet.  

• Investing Eggs: Chicken egg, magnifying lens, bowl, toothpick

What's Is Inside An Egg?

1. If the egg was in the refrigerator, let it sit out for a while to warm.  
2. Examine the outside of the egg under the magnifying lens.
3. Slowly crack the egg open over a bowl and examine the inside of the shell under the magnifying lens.
4. Study the inside of the egg.  Notice the membrane inside the shell.
5. Examine the other parts of the membrane.  Feel the white jelly material.
6. Examine the yolk.  What is the thin membrane around the yolk holding it in a round shape?

Explanation: 

A chicken egg is a single cell that contains its own food.  The white or brown hard surface, the shell, is part of the protective membrane that surrounds the inside of the egg.  When you cracked the egg open, you saw the membrane clinging to the inside of the shell.  The membrane acts as a layer of insulation between the shell and the inside of the egg.  The yellow center of the egg is the yolk, which is the food source for the developing chick.  The yolk is held in place by two spiral bands of protein.  These bands, called chalazae, hold the yolk in place on top of the growing chick.  The white part of the egg is called the albumen.  The albumen contains water reserved for the chick and holds the yolk.

• Flashlight Egg Hunt: Flashlight, plastic eggs, reflective strips

1. Put a piece of reflective strip around each plastic egg.
2. Hide the eggs around the house or yard.
3. Play game at night with the lights out.
4. Then with the flash lights search for the eggs.  The flashlight should reflect when the light hits it.  

• Easter: Printables

1. Family Fun Website

Snacks:

• Easter Cakes(from little debbie)
• Pretzels sticks and small round crackers (game)

Take the pretzel sticks and make a tic tac toe pattern.  Make 9 squares.  6 pretzels across and 6 down.  

Use two pretzel sticks for the X's and the crackers for the O's. 

Education:

Letters/Words

• Word Of The Day: Index cards, pen

1. Have
2. How is your child doing with the rest of their words?

• Alphabet Chalk Fun:  Chalk(different colors), Driveway

1. Write the alphabet all over the driveway.  Upper and lower case. 
2. Then take turns calling out a letter.  The caller has to run to the Capital version while the other person darts to the lowercase letter.  

• Printable Word Games

1. Family Fun Website

Numbers

• Dominos: Dominos

1. Play a game of dominos with your child.
2. After playing dominos,  then line them all up so your child can knock them all down. 
3. How many did your child get to line up before knocking down. Have them count them while they are setting them up.  
4. You can even line up VHS tapes and knock them down too.

Music:

• Tambourine: Cardboard, stapler, paint, jingle bells, yarn, hole puncher

1. Cut a strip of corrugated cardboard, bend it in a circle shape, and staple the ends together.
2. Paint it. Let dry.
3. For each jingle bell that you want to attach, punch two holes in the cardboard. 
4. Tie on each jingle bell with yarn.

• Easter Songs and Rhymes: Preschool Education Website

Books:

• Silly Nilly and the Easter Bunny by Lillian Hoban
• Allie Gator and the Easter Egg Hunt (John Deere) by Elana Roth
• Somebunny Loves You by Jane Gerver
• Max's Easter Surprise by (Max and Ruby) by Rosemary Wells

Some ideas were found in the following books:

• Look What You Can Make With Dozens of Household Items! by Boyds Mills Press
• Family Fun Magazine: March 2010
• Nature in a Nutshell For Kids by Jean Potter
• The Kids' Encyclopedia of Things to Make and do by Richard Michael Rasmussen 

Easter Week: Monday