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20 Easter Activities for Kids
Easter Activities for Kids
For more Easter activities for kids please check out my Easter Crafts, Snacks and Activities Pinterest board.
Deirdre is a stay at home mom. Prior to staying home she worked as an elementary school teacher and technology integration specialist for over twenty years. She hold an Early Childhood degree and a Masters in Developmental Reading. She is the blogger behind JDaniel4’s Mom, a site focused on sharing ways to learn and grow beside your children.
St. Patrick’s Day Activity Round Up
St. Patrick’s Day Activity Collection
The counting objects in books activity, hair gel letter practice bag and the paper plate emotions spinner. ( He is the third activity in the third row) All came from a post called St. Patrick’s Day Activities: Part One.
The three sensory activities at the end of the first row all came from a post called St. Patrick’s day: Part Two. We had the best time digging for shamrocks and stone potatoes in the the third activity in that row. Then we made a thatched roof house out of play dough and straws. Finally we transferred sticks using chopsticks.
The first three activities in the second row come from a post called Science for Kids- Experiments with Green. We painted with a magnet and a paperclip, painted with homemade chalk paint and made a borax shamrock.
The fourth activity in the second row is a watercolor rainbow my son painted to go along with a St. Patrick’s Day story I wrote. The post was called. Walking on Watery Way Toward Treasure.
The last activity in the second row is one my son and I did at the grocery store. I called the post Seeing Green at the Grocery Store. We had the best time looking for green foods that match the paint chip we brought with us.
We dyed carnations green and orange to match the colors of the Irish Flag in a post called St. Patrick’s Day- Read.Explore.Learn. You will see the fun vases we used in the first picture in the third row.
The goat puppet was made for a post called {An Irish Tale} King Puck- Read.Explore.Learn. King Puck is a festival in Ireland. During the festival a goat is selected to be the king for the year.
Creating a trap for the leprechaun was a blast. My son loved creating pulley and decorating an old clementine box.
Painting with ice cubes was an adventure that I shared in a post called Coloring for Kids: Ice Cube Rainbow Painting.
If you are looking for a special St. Patrick’s Day snack or lunch, I shared a post called 8 St. Patrick’s Day Snack and Lunches. I hope you will check them out.
Preschool Math- Snowman Hole Punch Counting
The paper plates, construction paper, glue and hole punch were placed on the table and told JDaniel that I had an activity for him to do. He came over right away to see what I had planned.
JDaniel grabbed one of the buttons and punched one hole in it. I waited for him to add the extra holes, but he didn’t add any. He grabbed another button and punched two holes in it. Before he grabbed another button, I asked him what he was doing.
“Mom, I am counting on!” he announced. Counting by ones with buttons was great idea. He continued to punch holes in the remaining buttons. Each time he added one more hole.
At first it looked like he was patterning too, but when the buttons were done the colors weren’t in a pattern. I asked him if we need to cut out more buttons to create a pattern. “No, this is a counting activity not a patterning one,” he said shared with me..
I had thought it was a crafting activity before we started it. In just one minute everything changed and JDaniel came up with a wonderful preschool math activity. Well, maybe it was still partially a craft. We did cut out arms and a nose. We did use glue and scissors. Mostly I think it ended up being a math activity.
It was fun to see how this preschool math snowman hole punch counting activity came together.
Here are some more preschool math activities:
Taking Time to Play- Christmas Decorations
Sometimes I leave JDaniel to craft on his own. As he has gotten busy with preschool and with kindergarten looming on the horizon, I have tried to work on craft with him. If we aren’t working on the same project, we are working on parallel projects a lot now.
JDaniel made a wonderful wreath. He loves the hole punch so, it wasn’t a surprise that he punched a number of holes into his wreath. I love the weaving he did through the holes with a sparkly pipe cleaner. The wiggly eyes make me think that this wreath is taking in all that is around it. The spots of color around the wreath are fun too. JDaniel just kept changing crayon colors and coloring one spot beside the other.
Here are some more Christmas decorations:
Thanksgiving for Kids -Table Setting Ideas
The turkey treat cups requires only wiggly eyes, some colored sheets of foam, and a clear plastic cup. Literally all you have to do is cut out feathers and a beak out of foam. Then glue the eyes, feathers, and beak onto the plastic cup. If you have wiggly eyes and foam that have sticky backs you don’t even need glue.
The Mayflower sail straw is just a piece of white foam cut into a sail. A blue straw was laced through holes punched into the sail. If you have straws of various colors, you could have the children create a pattern of straws with sails by having every other cup of the table be the same color.
The napkin ring can be made by wrapping felt around a toilet paper tube that has been cut down. A simple turkey can be created with felt or foam. The turkey is then glued onto the felt wrapped tube. I didn’t add feet to my turkey, but you could. I bet they would look adorable.
If are looking for a more formal look for your Thanksgiving table, you might think about creating a table setting like this for Thanksgiving breakfast or the leftover snack on Thanksgiving evening.
Here some more Thanksgiving for kids activities:
Building Thanksgiving Words with Letter Feathers
Thanksgiving Science -Sink or Float
Thanksgiving for Kids- A Cornucopia of Prayer
Thanksgiving for Kids Activity
If you like this Thanksgiving for kids activity, here are a few more that you will like:
Turkey Trouble- Read.Explore.Learn
I love the turkey’s disguises. He uses upcycled costumes to keep him off the table.
Paper Bag Turkey
We ended the craft by adding his feet. I think he came out really cute.
If you like the Turkey Trouble crafts, here are some more wonderful turkey themed activities you will like:
Building Words with Turkey Feathers
Thanksgiving Themed Sink and Float Activity
Thanksgiving for Kids- Homemade Table Settings
Cornucopia of Prayer- Craft and Activity
Science Kids- Exploring Turkey Basters
Gratitude Turkey- Each Feather Shares a Blessing
Please link your book exploration posts below.
Bats for Kids- Baby Bat’s Lullaby Activities
This lovely book’s words flow as you read and the rhyming text draws you into their day. I love how the mother bat loves her baby. The pictures and the words both share that message.
Bats for Kids Activities
I created a bat text guide for JDaniel to use while we read the book. We used the guide in several different ways. His first job to turn the guide sideways and pull in under the text as I read the story.
Alphabet Bats
Here are some wonderful book exploration posts from last week:
Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share- Read.Explore.Learn.
What did we do with Gimme Cracked Corn?
Some cobs had dots on them that represented that number. Some had shapes with that number of sides. Some cobs had pictures with that number of objects on them.
Apple Pie Popcorn
Another Fun Corn Activity
B-Inspired Mama had a great guest post exploring concepts based on the book There Was An Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything on her blog. The guest post was written by Educator’s Spin On It.