Eggcellent Easter Crafts
Pressed Leaf Easter Eggs
Learn about different fern fronds with your child as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.
Fabulous Decoupage Easter Eggs
This Easter, don’t use the same old store-bought egg dyes. Here’s a great way to get your hands a little dirty, and celebrate the season family-style.
Dye Eggs with Onion Skins
Learn to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, they’re perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.
Craft Egg Cup Flowers
Use these pretty egg cup flowers to decorate a spring table. They don’t require water, they’ll never wilt, and they’re perfect for Easter.
Easter Activities
Grow Spring Grass
This science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.
Plant Your Name with Seeds!
Here’s a great early reading and science activity for curious kindergarteners. Learn how to plant your child’s name in seeds for a green and growing writing activity!
Be a Flower Spy!
Flowers are up to some very important business: they are reproducing! In this activity, find out who the flowers’ “partners in crime” are by being a flower spy.
Bunny, Rabbit, Jellybean: A Math Game
Your kid’s mind is heavily weighted with dreams of holiday chocolate. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still have fun with math!
Recipes and Party Ideas
Host an Easter Tea Party
Let your children revel in the slow charm of bygone years with an Easter tea party. Here are some great ideas to get the festivities started.
Easter “Fortune” Cookies
Kids love the jelly beans and bunnies of the Easter season, but if you’re looking for a way to inject a little extra meaning — and maybe even blend in some writing skills — we’ve got a creative idea for you.
“Bunny Basket” Carrot Salad
Create a healthy carrot salad in an asparagus “basket” this Easter.
Easter Bunny Cake
If you’re looking for just the right dessert to serve with your Easter dinner, and one that will please young children and adults alike, try your hand an at Easter Bunny cake.
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Delightful Books for Easter
These three tales feature one of Easter’s most enduring characters: a little chick, who is given a more positive perspective on her problems. A great read for preschoolers.
Like Easter, this magical book celebrates new beginnings. In an old railway track, Liam helps a few struggling wildflowers to grow, and soon turns his once dreary city into a springtime paradise. A great read for kindergarteners.
First written in 1939, this is a story way before its time: after raising 21 children, a country bunny sets out to pursue her lifelong dream to become one of the Five Easter Bunnies. An inspiring read-aloud for children in first grade.
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