It’s Spring time! Stuck for activity ideas for the children? In this post we will cover lots of ideas and inspiration you can use for the Easter and Spring season ahead.
Arts & Crafts
Having fun with arts and crafts encourages children to be innovative with their projects and enables them to explore their imagination in a constructive way. Arts and crafts can help develop fine motor skills and improve coordination, as well as allowing children to express themselves creatively. Here are some Spring-themed crafts to occupy your children at Easter time.
Handprint Spring Lilies
Watch your child’s imagination blossom with this fun flower craft! After a few short steps you’ll have yourselves a beautiful bunch of Lilies, just in time for spring. This simple activity is perfect for your little ones to follow along with ease.
All you need to create these lovely spring lilies:
- Coloured paper
- A pair of scissors
- Sticky tape
- Pipe cleaners
- A pencil
For a more detailed guide on how to create these Handprint Spring Lilies, click here.
Handprint Easter Cards
Use handprints to create these cheerful Easter themed animal cards – a lamb, a bunny and a chick! With 3 different designs to choose from, children will love using their handprint to create these Spring animals. They are fun, yet quick and easy to create; perfect to make at home!
For this Easter card craft you will need:
- Coloured card
- Googly-eyes
- Cotton wool (for the sheep)
- Pink pom pom (for the bunny)
- Pen and Pencil
- Glue
- Scissors
For the full tutorial on how to create Handprint Easter Cards, click here.
Cardboard Roll Chicks
Turn your recycled toilet paper tubes into sweet Spring chickens! Watch your little ones transform old cardboard tubes into new, adorable baby chickens. These Spring-chick crafts can also double up as an egg holder; perfect for Easter time!
For the cardboard chicks you will need:
- Toilet paper roll
- Pipe cleaners
- Yellow paint
- Pens
- Scissors
- Glue
For more detailed instructions on how to create these chicks, click here.
Egg Hunts
There’s nothing better at Easter time than getting the children involved in a traditional Easter egg hunt! There are lots of different unique and creative ideas that will keep your kids entertained on Easter. Here is a little inspiration for egg hunt ideas that they will love!
Rock Painting
Instead of hiding regular eggs for your hunt this year, why not try painting your own Easter rocks! Collect rocks of different shapes and sizes on your Spring walks and bring them back home to paint. Children can use their imagination to experiment with pastel coloured paints, creating Easter designs! Your colourful rocks can be hidden around the garden ready to be found on Easter.
Foam Bunny Egg Collector
This foam cup bunny is perfect for collecting and holding your Easter egg finds. It’s ideal to create at home as you only need minimal supplies and is simple and easy to follow, especially for the little ones! As the children are searching the garden for eggs, they can be carrying around the little bunny collector, counting in their eggs as they find them.
You will need:
- Foam/plastic cup
- Pen
- Scissors
- Glue
- Googly-eyes
To find out how to make the foam bunny egg collector, click here.
Sweet treats & Baking
Everyone loves sweet treats, especially at Easter time! Baking with children helps them build basic maths skills by doing something as simple as counting eggs or pouring water into a measuring cup, you can ask what comes first, second or third as you count together. Here are some tasty treat ideas for Easter and Spring time.
Easter Biscuit Decorating
Biscuit decorating is a popular Easter activity to do with children because its so quick and easy! It’s easy to set up and the children will love decorating the biscuits with bright icing. They can experiment with different colours and choose the patterns and marks they make. When they’re finished they get to treat themselves to a nice tasty biscuit! These fun and easy sheep shortbread cookies make a fun Spring treat and a great Easter baking project for the kids.
Click here for Shortbread Sheep Cookies recipe.
Bunny Cupcakes
These cute bunny cupcakes are a great Easter activity for the kids. They can help bake the sponge for the cupcakes and decorate the top with grass icing. To create the bunnies, they can use their hands to mould and shape the white fondant icing. The recipe is simple and easy to follow, ideal for little ones. The perfect sweet Easter treat for all the family!
Ingredients:
- 185g self-raising flour
- 120g golden caster sugar
- 120g butter
- 100g natural yoghurt
- 1 lemon, zested
- 2 eggs
- 250g pack fondant icing
For the frosting
- 85g unsalted butter
- Few drops of vanilla extract
- 200g icing sugar
- Few drops of green food colouring
Click here for Bunny Cupcakes recipe.
