Easter Break Activities

Here are some art and craft suggestions for your children during Easter Break. I will add to these throughout the two weeks. There will be a mixture to suit all ages. I hope you have a happy, healthy Easter. I’ll put the newer posted activities to the top.

*FREE FOR PARENTS/CHILDREN- a pdf extract from Nibbler’s Aistear Adventures on oral language and vocabulary development. (Junior classes) Click on the following link…https://www.cleverkids.ie/Nibbler_download.pdf 

    Easter Mosaics

    Paper Plate Mount Calvary…Can be lovely idea to teach children about Easter

    Dying eggs with food colouring (Hard boil your eggs first!)

    Egg dying 1: Fizzy Eggs

    Easter Egg Dying 2: Making patterns using elastic bands/ stickers

    Easter Egg Dying 3: Marbling effect on eggs

    • proof check…’you already dyed!’

    Easter Picture Riddle

    Tissue Flowers

    Lock-down 2020 memorandum

    Pompoms

    Not really Easter related, but certainly useful at a time like now. See the link below to the free downloadable book about the Coronavirus for children, illustrated by Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler.

    • Grow seeds in an empty egg shell…If you don’t have cress/ mustard/ grass seeds try apple seeds and see what happens
    • Make a cross from clay or playdough