Easter

Easter is always a fun time of year filled with chocolate for our family. This was the first year Robbie was old enough to fully understand Easter, however, due to Covid and lockdown (2020) we needed to come up with fun activities to make Easter special at home.

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Easter Egg Craft – resources: decoupage/cardboard/plastic eggs, paint

We got these great decoupage eggs from Hobby Craft just before lockdown (2020) knowing that Easter was coming up and wanting to have something special to do with Robbie on the lead up to it. I set out paints, put the eggs into egg cups and mugs and let Robbie paint away.

This was a great addition/alternate to painting boiled eggs as I could let Robbie have free rein with the eggs without worrying about them breaking.

Handprint Chick and Footprint Bunny – resources: Paper, paint, stickers.

These were great fun pictures to make and an added bonus that Robbie got to paint his hands and feet. First, we painted his hands in his chosen colours and stamped them at each side of one half of an A4 piece of paper. Then we painted his feet and stamped them together on the other side of a piece of paper. Once they were dry we stuck a heart sticker onto the big toes of the feet upside down to make the bunny nose and drew in some eyes and ears. We then drew a body shape, beak and eyes for the chick.

Easter Bunny Handprints – resources: paper, pens, scissors.

This was a simple and effective little craft. First, we drew around our hands and coloured them in using pens. Then we added little feet, paws, eyes and noses. Finally, we cut them out, bent the pinky and thumb in and stuck them to a little egg we drew and decorated.

Easter Bonnet – resources: paper, pens, scissors, Sellotape.

Robbie’s nursery had a virtual Easter Bonnet competition, so we decided to make one. First, we decided to use the Easter Bunny handprint pictures we made earlier as the main characteristic of our bonnet. We made some Easter eggs and chicks by drawing the outline of these on some paper and colouring them in before cutting them out. Then we cut an A4 piece of paper into three lengthways and wrapped this around Robbie’s head to make the headband section. Once this was the correct size we stuck all the bunnies, eggs and chicks onto the band.

Easter Egg Painting – resources: hardboiled egg, egg cup, paint.

We decided to continue our tradition of painting an egg for egg rolling even if we had to roll the egg in the garden. We boiled an egg until it was hard-boiled and left it to cool. Then we gave Robbie paint and the egg and let him decorate it as he wanted.

Easter Egg Hunt – resources: chocolate/plastic eggs, space to hide them, something to collect eggs in such as a bucket.

We decided to do our egg hunt in the garden as the weather was dry. I set out all of Robbie’s garden toys while he was having breakfast and hid all our eggs in different places. We then gave him his bunny ears, tail and bucket and let him run around the garden to find the eggs.

You could equally do this in the house hiding eggs around furniture and toys.

Easter Egg Rolling – resources: painted hardboiled egg, steep hill.

We took our painted egg out on our daily walk and managed to find a quiet hill. We climbed the hill and let Robbie have fun throwing his egg down the hill. As we had boiled it until it was very hard, it took quite a lot of effort for the egg to break, which meant that Robbie got a good few turns of rolling and throwing the egg down the hill.

Chocolate and Hop

After all the excitement of our day, we settled down to watch the film Hop and munch some of our chocolate eggs. This was the perfect way to end a great Easter Day.