hali Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 Hi Commitee want to do Easter Bonnet parade again for easter service.... i would like to do something different in past have decorated eggs etc - anyone think of anything different?????
Susan Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 We, thank goodness, have abolished the Easter Bonnet Parade this year.
purplewednesday1 Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 How about "new beginnings" as a theme ... could do baby animals (Hop little bunnies hop, hop, hop), new plants growing (Lots of actions / dance) 5 little seeds standing in a row 5 little seeds standing in a row and if one little seed decided "time to grow" There'd be 4 little seeds standing in a row"
purplewednesday1 Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 What about a decorated egg competition or an egg box design competition or an egg carrier competition (a la "The great egg race" with Heinz Wolfe)
Guest Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 We are going to decorate eggs and then roll them down a nearby hill (all very risk assessed with sheeting to collect shells).
purplewednesday1 Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 How about making papier mache eggs round balloons and then decorating them?
Posy Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 Easter egg hunt?We hide plastic eggs, the children exchange them for a chocolate one (which means that we can control the number of eggs given out). Or putting Humpty Dumpty back together - hide pieces of Humty for chdn to find, gradually building up picture. Posy
HappyMaz Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 We've done an Easter Egg Hunt most years - one way was a series of physical challenges where the parents signed their 'passport' which they later exchanged for an Easter goodie bag. Another way was that I cut out an egg, bunny and a chick out of card, attached pieces of wool to them to make little tags (bit like gift tags) and the children had to find one of each. Once they had all three, they came and exchanged them for chocolate! The children had decorated their own card Easter baskets for the occasion. Maz
Guest Wolfie Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 We are going to decorate eggs and then roll them down a nearby hill (all very risk assessed with sheeting to collect shells). Oh that's exactly what we used to do, the children LOVED it! We took a picnic with us and all sat on the hill to eat together afterwards. But ours WASN'T very risk assessed! Ooops!
hali Posted February 23, 2009 Author Posted February 23, 2009 sounds like you picnic on the eggs after rolling
Guest Wolfie Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 sounds like you picnic on the eggs after rolling We may well have done! And all the children have survived to tell the tale!
JacquieL Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 Hi Commitee want to do Easter Bonnet parade again for easter service.... Do you mean for an Easter Service in a church Hali, and if so is this just with Early Years children?
hali Posted February 23, 2009 Author Posted February 23, 2009 yes i do jacquie - but children usually have to make something at home to be judged in church (yuk yuk) so usually do bonnets although we have done decorating eggs in past as well... was thinking along the lines of an easter animal!!!!!!
Guest Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 How about making papier mache eggs round balloons and then decorating them? Oh, I might just have to give that a go (I might let the children join in too!), thanks purplewednesday1. mrsW.x
JacquieL Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 Well I think decorating eggs is a good idea as a secular but linked theme, as eggs represent new life. So the children have to be judged as which is best for something? It would be lovely for them to think of the thing that they find most beautiful in the world, a flower, their mum, a pet, a brother or sister or whatever, and celebrate that, but how can anything be better than anyone elses as it is so personal? Or what about them making Easter gardens. We did that at Nursery, or rather they made them at home, and they were really amazing. Some made Gethsemene, and others made lovely gardens with little animals in them, duck ponds, sunbathing Mums, and all in minature.
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