Easter

[Guest]

Anyone doing anything different apart from easter nests etc. Plus any good ideas anyone used for a literacy focus - just need a bit of a change for the last week.

[Cait]

we are weaving wool to make Easter cards - something like this.

[Guest tinkerbell]

The festivals DVD Easter is a good starting point for giving the children ideas for what they would like to do for Easter.The teacher writes a poem about Easter using the senses to write each line and the children choose what they like to see,hear,taste,touch etc

 

tinkerbell

[Freefaller]

Palm Tree parade with children taking turn to be the king on the donkey: "We have a king who rides a donkey and his name is Jesus". The rest of the class use their branches to welcome him into town. Make palm trees out of newspaper. Lay 3 pieces of newspaper on the floor. Roll them up and tape them. Cut up one end in 4 places. Put finger in the “cut end” and hold one piece. Pull other end.

[SueFinanceManager]

In the past have;

 

cut out & decorated egg shapes to make cards/pictures

 

egg hunt - indoors hidden pictures of eggs all around the setting

 

chocolate nests - like rice crispie/cornflake cakes but use big shredded wheat as they look more like twigs and put mini eggs in the nests

 

planted daffodil bulbs....bit late now maybe

 

spring pictures / blossom / tulips / daffodil pics.....use egg box bottoms to make trumpet of daffodil

 

Easter bunny pics / role play - make bunny ears / rabbit hats - basket and cardboard/plastic eggs to collect and deliver....extend by putting numbers on and deliver to numbered doors etc

 

have hot cross buns for snack time

 

chicks......

 

Oh and a few Easter threads in here

 

Hope some of that helps