With the Easter holidays on the horizon, your mind will undoubtedly be thinking about what you can do to keep the youngsters entertained. After all, a fortnight away from school when they’re used to classes five days a week can be a pretty hard slog if you don’t have anything planned in advance. While some of you will be working and the kids will be enjoying themselves in a local play scheme, others will have the good fortune of spending the time at home with the children and the more activities you have planned, the more fun the time will be! Luckily, it’s Easter, which means you have the ...
Top 3 Easter Crafts for Toddlers
Below are three super-simple but fun and effective Easter crafts ideal for making with toddlers. 1. No-Dye Spotty Eggs. Here we simply attached double-sided sticky dots to blown out duck-eggs and then rolled each spot in glitter. So easy but so pretty! I used duck eggs as the shells are a bit sturdier than chicken eggs but you could always use a hard-boiled egg if you are worried they might break. For full instructions and pictures of how we made them see here. 2. Funny Bunnies I love finding fun ways to use up rubbish from around the house and toilet rolls are no exception. Here we ...
Easter Craft: Funny Bunnies
This is a super easy craft to do with your toddler and great fun for easter! You will need: An empty toilet roll Coloured tissue paper Old bit of card-a cereal box or similar would do Pink and white card A few balls of cotton wall Modge Podge or watered down PVA glue Paint brush Pipe cleaners Googley eyes Double-sided sticky tape Cut your tissue paper into small strips. Let your toddler paint the toilet roll with modge podge and stick on strips. Continue adding until evenly covered and allow to dry. Cut out two ear shapes from an old bit of card. Cut ...
Easter Craft: No-dye Spotty Easter Eggs.
W and I had great fun making these cute spotty Easter eggs today, though I am still brushing the glitter out of my hair. We found the idea over at Better Homes and Gardens who have lots of great egg-decorating ideas but this one was particularly toddler-friendly. And there you have it, no-dye spotty Easter Eggs for a pretty Easter table centrepiece. Happy Easter! ...
Easter Craft:Sp-EGG-tacular Superheroes!
I just could not stop giggling whilst making the following Easter eggs. I really hope they will make you smile. You can find templates for all of the 'clothes', feet and badges available to download free of charge here...Superhero templates Happy Easter! How to Make a Spider-egg-man: First dye a blown-out egg-shell overnight in a large bowl containing one cup of water and one teaspoon of red food colouring. Remove and allow to dry thoroughly for 24 hours. With a permanent marker draw on web lines over the top 2/3 of your egg. Next paint the bottom 1/3 of your egg with Modge Podge ...