Easter Chick Farm

Continuing our letter E week, we made a Easter chick farm (named by Joseph (4)).  The boys helped me gather & make this box so it was hard to get a pic before they started playing.

      We used: 

• Wood shavings for the base
• Brown plastic mushroom container for the hill
• Lots of yellow chicks
• Chickens from our Fisher Price Farm
• Fencing from our small farm
• Plastic eggs - from kinder eggs
• Bouncy eggs (they were dinosaur eggs last week)
• Egg boxes
• Shredded yellow paper
• A couple of ladybirds that wanted in on the action!

They totally loved this sensory small world box, they loved playing with the wood shavings! I'm really not keen on the wood shavings as they made such a mess!

My kitchen floor afterwards!

x Jo x

Egg Decorating & Huggers

We decided to get our entry's ready for the decorated egg competition, held at our local Easter party. I picked up some polystyrene eggs from a local stationary shop, however they are available from most craft shops & have been seen in the £ shops. 

We used the left over tissue paper from our Easter Egg Collages, to decorate them. First we covered the egg in white glue then added tissue & more glue until the egg was all covered. I did have to help them at the end by putting on some more glue to stick all the tissue down. They took approximately a day to dry (I turned them 1/2 way through), we dried these on a plastic bag so they wouldn't stick.

We made some really cute egg huggers using free printables from:

• Bunny Egg Hugger - Skip to my lou
• Chick Egg Hugger - Pixel Occasions (Link to free b/w printable is at the bottom of the post)

I printed them on to cream/white card & cut them out for the boys. They then coloured them in & added eyes (always a hit). I stapled them together for the boys & we added some shredded tissue & our dry egg.

x Jo x

Easter Egg Collage

We have finally moved on the letter E, which is good timing for Easter! So we started off with some easter egg collages inspired by this post that I pinned. Joseph (4) & I cut up lots of coloured scrap paper, card & tissue. The boys used white glue to stick them on. I did say that it was going to make Easter eggs & Daniels even looks egg shaped.

 Once dry I made an egg shaped template & drew arond it on the back & cut them out. I really like how colourfull they are & the crisp lines, created by cutting the egg shape afterwards.

 Similar to when we made our valentines heart display, I used some of the boys random pictures from toddler group to make some more eggs.

I'm not sure where we are going to display these eggs, possibly a banner? 

We have lots more easter crafts planned, including some boys bonnets. 

For more craft ideas why not check out my Easter & Spring pintrest board.

x Jo x

Easter Egg Hunt

As we wont be having our 2013 hunt until Easter day, I thought I would share some pics of last years hunt. As the weather wasn't great we decided to go for an indoor hunt on the upper floors of our house (its split level so we have 4 floors total). I'd picked up a kit on sale which included baskets, some signs & arrows. The arrows worked great as Joesph was only 3.5 then so would have needed help otherwise. We hid 2 small eggs in each hiding place one for each of the boys, as Joseph knew what he was doing, he was finding the eggs, then sharing with Daniel (not quite 2 then).

This year I plan to use some clues like these at Making Boys Men I love how she has used pictures as well as words! I'm also hoping for better weather so we can use the garden.

We also attend an annual Easter party with bonnet & decorated egg competitions.

Last years Easter bonnets, we didn't win!

Whilst looking for these pictures from last Easter I found these cute pictures from a visit to the pets corner at a local farm park. I love looking back at pictures of the boys, you can really see how much they have grown!

I hope you have a great Easter with your family this year, we will be sharing some Easter crafts soon, so pop back. If you are looking for some inspiration in the meantime take a look at my Easter Pintrest board.

x Jo x

I'm linking up to the Easter Crafts Spring Project Linkup