**Cut out a large white or pink standing bunny shape from flannel or felt fabric. Pin to the wall or bulletin board. Have the kids take turns being blindfolded and try to stick a felt bunny's tail to the bunny shape.
**Buy lots of different colored fun foam sheets. Pre-cut a bunch of oval egg shapes from white or yellow and let the kids cut and decorate them with the foam. For some kids, the foam isn't the easiest to cut, especially into small pieces, so then I would pre-cut basic shapes and designs and just let this be a gluing project. Let them decorate as much or as little as they wish. Add a magnet for hanging, add string to hang on a seasonal tree, add a pin backing or cut a small slit in it and the kids can wear it on a button-down shirt by sticking the button through the small slit.
**Hide plastic eggs all over the room or even outdoors. Give each child a limit on finding two. Have them take turns hiding the eggs also. When the weather permits, my kids here have played this over and over and over the whole "outside time".
**Marble paint with lots of spring bright colors and when dry, cut out eggs to hang or use for a bulletin board border.
**During musical chairs, hop like a bunny instead of just walking around the circle
**Suggested Reading:
Barney's Easter Egg Hunt by S. White
Best Egg Hunt Ever by J. Speirs
Bunny Who Found Easter by C Zolotow
How The Spider Saved Easter by R. Kraus
Color Monster by R. Fortes
Corduroy's Easter by L. McCue
My First Easter by T. dePaola
**Cut out ovals from tagboard about 8-10 inches high. Use a paper punch to punch holes all the way around it. Cut several 12-14 inch pieces of yarn of different colors. Tie a knot on one end of the each yarn; add a button onto it and then tie another knot to keep the button on the bottom. Then when the kids use them for sewing, the yarn won't pull through the holes. Encourage them to not only go around the outside of the shape, but to make lines through the center as well to create Easter Eggs.
**Fill plastic eggs with various objects and tape shut. The kids can try to guess what's inside. Suggestions: money, popcorn kernels, rice, sand, cotton, rock, bell, water, etc.
** I remember reading somewhere an idea someone had about hiding new crayons outdoors instead of an egg or candy hunt. Buy a set of 8 crayons for each child. Hide the crayons indoors or outdoors and give the child the empty crayon box and let them fill it trying to get one of each color. Jumbo crayons might work well with this. Then I would buy an Easter themed color book and that and the new crayons would be my Easter gift to them.
**fingerplay, poem
One little duckling, yellow and new
Had a fuzzy brother and that made two.
Two little ducklings now you can see
They had a little sister and that makes three.
Three little ducklings -will there be more?
A friend came along and that made four.
Four little ducklings went to swim and dive
They met a little neighbor and that made five.
Five little duckings, watch them grow.
Soon they'll be five BIG ducks, you know!
**Cut out two identical egg shapes for each child out of contact paper. Set out a variety of tiny tissue paper shapes, yarn pieces, and/or construction paper. Let the child create and Easter egg and then you can lay the other sheet on top to seal when he/she is done. Hang from ceiling or in a window.
**Each child cuts 2 large white oval shapes the same size. Cut one in half almost all the way through. Lay them on top of each other with the cut one on top. Use paste to keep them together just at the very top where the child didn't cut all the way through. (see below) Decorate the top one (the cut one) as it was an Easter egg. When the child opens up the egg, it becomes the ears of an Easter bunny. Add bunny features inside!! Makes a nice Easter card for Moms and Dads!
** Easter Heart Basket - Click here for illustration and directions.
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