Have toddlers make yellow chicks.
From plush bunnies to peeping chicks, Easter is an exciting time for toddlers. It is also an ideal time to reinforce basic learning concepts, including colors, shapes and fine motor skills. Toddlers can learn about the oval shape as they play with eggs or talk about their colors as they work with paint. Does this Spark an idea?
Painting Chicks
Fill a small bowl with washable yellow paint. Give the toddlers each a pile of cotton balls, and have them dip the balls in the paint. Let them dry. Give the toddler self-adhesive googly eyes to attach to the dried cotton balls. Dip orange triangles in craft glue, and have kids attach them as the mouths. Put shredded plastic grass in a clean egg carton. Put each chick into a separate section of the egg carton.
Making Easter Baskets
Draw a line around the diameter of a 2-liter bottle about 4 inches from the bottom. Cut around the line, and discard the top portion. Use a hole punch to put a hole on either side of the bottle near the cut-off top. Cut up small pieces of colored tissue paper. Have the toddlers dip the pieces in white craft glue and apply them to bottle. Thread extra long pipe cleaners through the holes in the bottle to create a handle.
Play Easter Basketball
Put a large Easter basket on a table. Fill plastic Easter eggs with unpopped popcorn kernels. Use hot glue to seal them up. Give each child a handful of eggs to try to throw in the basket. As the toddlers get better, have them stand further and further back from the basket. Play until everyone has gotten all the eggs in the basket.
Blow the Chick Down
Use the cotton balls dipped in yellow paint, and line them up in the center of a table. Have the kids sit on either side of the table and try to blow their chicks to the other side. They cannot touch the chicks with the hands or arms. They can only blow them to get them to move. They win when the chick falls off the table.
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