Easter Egg Painting

It's so fun to dye Easter Eggs,

but they hardly get eaten (by children).

So we decided to play with our food,

To help encourage everyone to eat hard boiled eggs.

And as always, it was super simple!

We peeled the eggs after they cooled.

They loved doing this!

It was a little tricky for them, but really fun.

Then we used the accessories from our Cootie Game,

and Mr. Potato Head.

Super easy, and 4 out of 6 of them ate their whole egg.

Next, we moved on to Easter Egg Painting

This was our set-up.

First we read The Easter Egg, by Jan Brett

I love this book, it's so sweet!

Its about a little bunny village who paint eggs for the Easter Bunny,

and one little Bunny doesn't know what to paint,

So he goes to help a mother robin whose egg fell out of the tree.

And the broken empty egg from the baby robin,

is the Easter Bunny's favorite egg.

Here's some extra activities from Jan Brett's site for this book.

The children loved painting with Easter Eggs.

All we did was use half of a plastic egg

and dip it into spring colored paint.

I used cardboard boxes that come with case lot sales,

to contain the paint.

Then I cut the dried papers into egg shapes.

I thought they turned out cute!

Here's M.'s Quiet Time Box for Easter

Her favorite part was the Easter Eggs,

A few of them (3) had candy,

and the rest had small toys,

like Cinderella earrings she got from her birthday.

I also found some fun matching sheets

found here and here.

I put them in a sheet protector and had her use a dry erase marker.

Here is a fun Easter snack we did last year,

Bunny Breakfast

E is for Easter!

Today we did an counting egg hunt.

That sounds a little drab, but it was actually really fun!!

At Preschool we started learning about the letter Ee!

So all week we focused on fun Eastery things we could do to learn about the letter Ee.

We read The Golden Egg Book,

By Margaret Wise Brown.

(She also wrote Good Night Moon,

and she has written tons of Bunny themed books)

This book is darling, and is one of my favorite Easter books!

So for our hunt, I printed the numbers 1-5 and

cut them out and put one number in each egg.

After they found their eggs,

Then they had to tell me what number they had,

and they took that many pieced of candy.

The kids really didn't mind at all that the candy did not come in the eggs, because I explained that the would eventually get the candy.

I wish I would have done this with my Kindergartners,

This is something room mothers,

or sixth grade helpers,

would love to help the kids count out their candy.

And I would have definitely had four or five candy stations.

You could also do this with other grades,

using addition for first and second grades,

subtraction, even division or multiplication for the upper grades.

In keeping with the Easter theme, we also read The Runaway Bunny, also by Margret Wise Brown.

It's about a little Bunny who threatens to run away,

and his mommy tells him all the ways she will love him and find him.

I found these masks at Walmart for $1,

so we decided to act out the Runaway Bunny.

Happy Easter week!!