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EGG THEME

CRAFTS:

Clay Eggs
Children can use clay or play dough to create various sizes and colors of eggs. Allow to dry if desired.

Coffee Filter Eggs
This is great in teaching children how to mix colors. Precut eggs out of the coffee filters for each child. Mix 4 drops of food coloring to 1/4 cup of water in a bowl for each color. Let the children use eyedropper to put the color on the filters. When dry you can glue the eggs onto a sheet of construction paper.

Egg Mosaics
Materials: Egg shells; bleach; food colours, vinegar and water or special egg dyes; white glue; simple Easter pictures or large egg shapes on heavy paper (construction paper)
What to do: [Before the meeting] boil your eggs then soak them for a few minutes in a mild bleach solution, and then rinse well. Colour the shells using egg dyes or food colour and vinegar in water. The longer you leave the shells, the darker the colour will be! It is best to keep each colour in a separate container. You can leave some brown and white eggs their natural colour. Remove the shells, leave them to dry, and then crush them into small pieces. [at the meeting] Children should choose a picture they want to do and use the egg shells to "colour" the picture. This is best done by gluing the egg shells into place, one colour at a time. Make sure that they shake off the excess shells after each colour.

Egg Headband 
Need: lightweight cardboard or card stock paper, glue, stapler, paint, paint brushes, glitter
Directions: Start with a strip of lightweight cardboard about 1 inch wide, and long enough to go around your head and overlap a little. glue or staple the ends together. From more of the same cardboard, cut enough egg shaped pieces to decorate the band. Paint the eggs a variety of fun colors, and when dry, decorate with contrasting colors or glitter. Then glue the eggs evenly around the band.

Make Nests
Put out raffia, straw, yarn, sticks, leaves. Help child put a large ring of glue on construction paper, then add pieces of above to make a nest. Make thumb prints in the middle to represent eggs.

Marbled Eggs
Mix one tsp. coloring, 1 tbs. vinegar, 1 cup hot water, and 1 tbs. salad oil. Eggs dyed in this solution will have marbled coloring.

Outer-Space Eggs
Have an adult help with cracking an egg in two, and use the larger part of the shell. Trim off the excess broken edge of the shell with nail scissors. Have the child put a little white glue on this cut edge to make it stronger. Cut a heavy paper or cardboard base in the shape of large feet. Glue the open end of the eggshell to the feet and let it dry. Attach paper or sticks with glue to form arms and antennae. Paint the little egg man any color that you like best. Add features with paint or felt-tipped marker.

Paper Mache Egg
Make flour and water paste. Using strips of newspaper, soak in paste and wrap around a balloon. Hang up to dry. Pop the balloon. Decorate and hang up to make a decoration.

String Egg
Need: string, balloon, white glue, paint
Directions: You may want to experiment with different size balloons to find one that works best for you. Inflate a balloon and tie it. Fill a bowl with glue. Soak string in glue. Wrap balloon with the string. Wrap different ways, up,down,and diagonal to get a better design. Allow to dry completely. Paint. You may want to sprinkle some glitter on the wet balloon after you paint it. Make sure the string is completely dry, then pop the balloon and hang up for a unique Easter decoration.

Tissue Printed Eggs
(An alternative to egg dyes on the market)
Hard boil your eggs as you normally do before dyeing for Easter. Then give children a variety of small square cut tissue paper. Have them paint w/small amount of water over a piece of tissue on the egg. Remove the piece of tissue for a colored print on the egg. Repeat around the egg w/more tissue squares. Let thoroughly dry and you have a colorfully decorated egg! 

Ukrainian Easter Eggs
Ukrainians make elaborately decorated Easter eggs for their family and friends at Easter. The eggs are tokens of love and respect; they represent a wish for health, happiness and God’s grace in a home. The colours and designs of Ukrainian Easter eggs are very symbolic. Yellow represents light and purity (Jesus). A star signifies God’s love for his people. The only words ever written on a Ukrainian Easter egg is, “Khrystos voskres”, meaning “Christ is risen.” Older kids will enjoy painting intricate, colourful designs of their own choosing on their eggs. You will need a number of hard-boiled eggs, pencils, crayons/markers/paints, and egg cups to hold the creations. Get the kids to sketch a design on their egg before colouring it. Other children might want to paint an Easter morning picture on their eggs. A variant of this activity for younger the kids involves dipping a hard-boiled egg into a bowl of food colouring after the child has drawn a picture on it with crayon.

GAMES & ACTIVITIES:

Egg Rolling
Rolling games with hard-boiled eggs are popular in Britain at Easter. Get some hard-boiled eggs, draw a target on the floor and see how close your the kids can roll their lop-sided ‘marbles’ to the centre. Make a small ramp out of cardboard and get the kids to see how close they can get to an object on the other side.

Easter Egg Match-Up
Collect different colored plastic eggs. Take the eggs apart and have your child find two egg halves of the same color and put them together.

Egg Hop 
Cut out large egg shapes from colored paper. Laminate them and cut them out. Place them on the floor and ask the children to hop from one egg to another. These may also be used at seat markers for group time. Or make bunny or duck foot prints for the children to follow.

Egg Maze
Create a maze on the floor using classroom blocks. Older children may be able to help. Then, encourage children to roll and push a hard-boiled or plastic eggs through the maze as quickly as possible. Tools such as brushes, small brooms, or spoons could be used to roll the eggs.

Eggshell Garden
Save and clean eggshell halves, Provide potting soil and seeds such as radish, marigold. Have children fill each shell with soil and a few seeds. Add a spoonful of water to each shell. Place eggshell halves in the cups of an empty egg carton. Once the plants have grown, they can be transplanted into the ground or a larger container, after crushing the eggshells.

Egg Toss
Need: Plastic Easter eggs, stickers, prize box
Directions: The children line up facing each other and then toss the eggs back and forth. The one to still have their egg when the music stops is the winner. (all children get an Easter sticker just for playing the game. The winners also get to pick out of the prize box.)

Good Egg Number Game
Need: Egg shapes from construction paper, plastic eggs
Directions: Arrange chairs in a circle with seats facing outward. Cut eggs from paper and number each consecutively. Tape 1 egg to each chair. Players walk around chairs to music. When music stops, players sit on chairs, and adult turns away so she cannot see who is sitting on what number. She then calls out a number. Player sitting on the chair with that number is called "a good egg". Player must find a plastic egg (filled with candy or prizes)with that particular number on it. Continue until all children have received an egg. You can also play music along with this game!

Good Eggs
Choose one child as an Egg Tester. The others are the Eggs. Eggs should sit in a circle with feet flat on the ground, knees tucked up to  their chins, and hands clasped tightly around their knees. The Egg Tester must ‘test’ each Egg by pushing against the Egg’s knees so that the Egg rocks onto his back. If the Egg can rock back up without letting go of his knees, he’s a Good Egg. If not, the player becomes the Egg Tester.

Roll the Egg
If you have more than one child it can be a race, or for one child you can time them. Place masking tape on the floor for the start and finish lines. Place one plastic egg on the starting line for each child. Explain that the object of the game is to roll the egg to the finish line with YOUR NOSE. If they get too good, add a few obstacles, such as a chair to go around, or tape a line for them to try to follow, be creative.

Vinegar and Eggs
Gently place a raw egg in a clear glass or jar filled with vinegar. Observe what happens to the egg over a period of three to four days. (after two days, the shell will soften and disappear. After three days, most of the calcium will have dissolved leaving only a bladder)
 
 

SONGS:

Colored Egg Poem
Blue egg, blue egg,
Oh, what fun.
Blue egg, blue egg,
I found one.
Green egg, green egg,
I see you.
Green egg, green egg,
Now I've two.
Red egg, red egg,
Can you see?
Red egg, red egg,
Now I've three.
Yellow egg, yellow egg,
Just one more.
Yellow egg, yellow egg,
Now I've four.

Eggs, Eggs, Eggs
(Sung to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
Eggs in Buckets,
Eggs in Bins.
Eggs in baskets,
Eggs in tins.
Eggs in green grass,
Eggs in clover.
Eggs, Eggs, Eggs
Yes, eggs all over.
Eggs for children
Just like me.
Eggs for springtime fun,
Yippee!

Eggs in a nest
Here's an egg in a nest up in a tree.
(make fist with right hand and place in palm of cupped left hand)
What's inside? What can it be?
(shrug shoulders)
Peck, peck, peck,
Peep, peep, peep.
Out hatches a little bird,
(Wiggle fingers or fisted hand)
Cute as can be!

Hatching Chickens
Five eggs and five eggs
(hold one hand and then another)
Are underneath a hen.
Five eggs and five eggs
(hold up all fingers)
And that makes ten.
The hen keeps the eggs warm for three long weeks
(hold up three fingers)
Snap go the shells with tiny little beaks.
(Snap fingers)
Crack, Crack, the shells go,
(Clap four times)
The chickens, every one,
Fluff out their feathers
In the warm spring sun.
(make circle of arms)

Ham & Eggs
(Gently tap knees rapidly to imitate frying.)
Ham and eggs (Sung by one group)
Ham and eggs (Sung by another group)
I like mine fried nice and brown (Sung together)
I like mine fried upside down (Echoed)
Ham and eggs (Sung together)
Ham and eggs (Yelled by one group)
Flip ’em (Yelled by another group)
Flop ’em (Yelled by one group)
Flop ’em (Yelled by another group)
Flip ’em (Yelled by one group)
Ham and eggs (All sing together)
 

STORIES:

Have any good stories? Let us know!
 

FOOD SUGGESTIONS:

Snack ideas:
Jello eggs
hard boiled eggs
egg salad sandwiches
scrambled eggs 
Deviled Eggs
 

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