An Easter Roundup Of Ideas

Seriously I couldn't believe my eyes when I sat down and looked closely at the calendar. Easter is just about upon us! True, it is! I knew it was getting close but I had no idea it was this close.

I was browsing some of the things we've gotten up to in the past and thought I would do a bit of a roundup post for all of our Easter fun! I've included links to everything so you can easily find the printables and/or instructions.

I can still remember how much he enjoyed using these adorable little Easter Counting Cards.

 We still have this Tin Foil Easter Egg Garland, it was so simple to make and the bright paint really looks great.

 I still smile every time I see this gorgeous little Bilby graphic. Do you think anyone would notice the fact they are practicing multiplication over his cuteness ;-)

These adorable little Marshmallow Easter Bunnies were eaten nearly as quickly as they were assembled.

We no longer have a Bambino among us but I shared a few of our Easter themed trays that he used over and over again. You really don't need to go over the top with these things, simple is most generally best and easiest on you.

I don't know any one that can resist a play in a sensory tub!

Here's another lot of Easter themed trays for the little bambino's.

I have a small range of Bilby Easter themed printables, more suited to the younger age groups.

 Have a look at the fun we got up to with the story, The Bilbies First Easter.

You can also make a little Bilby Pencil Topper, with instructions on how to put him together.

Visit my Pinterest Easter Themed Board where I've pinned  many more fun ideas.


Follow Kylie @ Our Worldwide Classroom's board Easter Theme on Pinterest.

I hope you have a lovely Easter and lots of crafty fun in the lead up.

Happy Homeschooling,
Kylie 

Bambino Academy - More Easter Themed Works

Here are a few more of our Easter themed work trays, for the Bambino among us. Quite often the bigger kids use some of these and that's all good too.

Pastel playdough with these super cute cutters. These have been played with every day this past week.

Easter Bunny puzzle, a little above his ability so someone normally gives him a hand.

Easter Playdough mats. Crosses on hot cross buns, eggs in a basket and adding features to the Easter Bilby.

Handwriting, vocabulary practice.

Cards and counters.

1 - 10 Easter Bilby Puzzle.

Tonging easter 'gemstones'.

Pattern strips

Check out these other Easter themed posts

• Bambino Academy Printable Easter Pack
• Easter Multiplication Printable
• Easter Themed Bambino Academy (Montessori) Trays
• Easter Sensory Tub
• Easter Counting Cards 
• Marshmallow Easter Bunny
• Bilbies' First Easter

Marshmallow Easter Bunny

We had the delightful pleasure of an overnight visit from some very dear friends of ours, the girls dived right in to some Easter crafting.

Everything simple, nothing over the top, our focus was on the special people we had joining us not on the crafts at hand.

Marshmallow Easter Bunnies, so easy, so few ingredients and so cute!!

Simply use icing to 'glue' the marshmallows together and decorate the bunnies face with 'icing pens'. 

I had picked up a couple of small kits that were on clearance, mini easter baskets, which were a simple 'stick together' activity.

And these little easter critters, but as I said, the focus wasn't on the crafts it was on the time spent with friends.

Check out these other Easter themed posts

• Bambino Academy Printable Easter Pack
• Easter Multiplication Printable
• Easter Themed Bambino Academy (Montessori) Trays
• Easter Sensory Tub
• Easter Counting Cards

Printable Easter Counting Cards

I found these fabulous 'gemstones' in perfect Easter colours at our local 'cheap' store. I couldn't leave them on the shelf, I knew we would get a great deal of use out of them.

I added some of them to our Easter Sensory Tub, have saved some for a tonging activity and used the remainder to introduce Little Surfer Dude to cards and counters today.

As his first introduction I decided to only use the cards up to 5. He did really well considering this is the first time we have done anything formal with cards and counters.

You can grab the file to print for your use by clicking here.

Check out these other Easter themed posts

• Bambino Academy Printable Easter Pack
• Easter Multiplication Printable
• Easter Themed Bambino Academy (Montessori) Trays
• Easter Sensory Tub

Easter Sensory Exploration Tub

Little Surfer Dude has been loving his mini Easter Sensory Tub. A very simple tub, easter grass, a mini baskets, chicks in varying sizes, some bunnies, easter 'gemstones' and some open/close plastic eggs with little things to find inside.

But still offering loads of fun and exploration.

Have you had a look at the Sensory Tubs Idea List lately? Did you know that there are now 170 Sensory Tub Ideas linked up over there........wow!!

Go now and check it out. I am sure you will find something you'll love to create for your kiddos :-)

Easter Bilby Printable Bambino Pack

It's time for some Easter fun and there's no better way to do that here in Australia than with our adorable little Bilby!

Unfortunately the poor old Easter Bunny doesn't get a good wrap here in Australia. To put it simply they are an introduced pest that causes widespread havoc on our native lands and farming crops.

For several years there has been a push for our native Bilby to take the Easter Bunny's place here in Australia.

We will spend the next couple of weeks prior to Easter learning a little more about our Bilby friends.

For the little one among us I have put together a few simple Bambino Academy activities for him.

Inside the Easter Bilby pack you will find:

Easter Bilby puzzles.

Easter Egg Basket Playdough Mat

Handwriting Practice

Patterning Strips

Pre-writing Tracing

Colours with Easter Eggs

Scissor Work with cutting strips

Dot Marker—B is for Bilby

Handwriting Practice—B is for Bilby

Colouring Pages

Simply click here to download the pack.

My cute graphics are from Melonheadz :-)

Mulitcultural Art: German Easter Trees

Easter was the focus for the children's Multicultural Art Lessons this week. In fact Easter Egg Trees from Germany. I wasn't aware of this tradition so went a googling. I didn't find a great deal of information though, this article discusses the Easter Trees and another here has a little video.

These have been painted on a canvas and are now hanging on the wall with our Easter Garland they'll be fabulous to use year after year and we will continue to add to our display for Easter.

The background and trees are painted, the children then drew egg shapes on construction paper, painted them and glued them to their trees.

Past Multicultural Art Posts:

Chinese Dragons

Aboriginal Dot Paintings

Easter Fun - Hand Decorated Candy Eggs

Mummies turn for a bit of Easter Decorating Fun! Remember when we did the Honeycomb Christmas Trees last year? So we decided that we had to do this regularly. lol! Regularly being twice a year, Christmas and Easter but still it is such a nice way to spend some time with other homeschoolimg mamma's.

Candied Easter Eggs, yum yum, I adore these. I think because of childhood memories more than anything else because let's face it, nothing today tastes as it once did. Due to the nature of these we didn't make the entire egg, but did do all of the joining and decorating.

We were shown how to make the egg, however they need 3 days drying time for them to harden enough to join and decorate.

It certainly looked like a very scary project to tackle, but it wasn't that difficult and it was really very fun. You just need to be be super carfeul not to touch your newly piped and joined edges otherwise you'll squish them, like I did in my yellow flowery egg up there.

Here are all the works of art waiting to be given to someone beautiful on Easter morning, if they can last that long.

Easter Fun - An Arty Crafty Party

It's time to share all of the Easter Fun you have been having with your children.

Crafts, activities, printables anything hands on, fun and related to Easter.

Please don't forget to familiarise yourself with the link up guidelines and go grab a button to share on your blog.

There will be no new Arty Crafty Party link ups until after Easter, this one will remain open throughout Easter so please continue to add your links below.

Don't forget that you can continue to add to past Arty Crafty Links Ups, as they remain open.

Easter Egg Garland

When I saw this egg garland  I knew it was something that we could quickly and easily recreate. And it was so very simple. A few pieces of recycled card, tin foil and some paint.

We didn't have cotton buds, must add that to my list when restocking the craft supplies, so we just used a rolled up cotton swab.

All three children handled this one easily, with the older two doing their own tin foil wrapping of the eggs. B is just coming into the age where cutesy little themed crafts just don't inspire him so much anymore,  :( that's when it hits me that my baby is really growing up. Never the less he completed a few eggs anyway, cause he's nice like that ;-) K on the other hand could happily get down and crafty all day long!

Now we just need to continue adding to our Easter wall to brighten it up some. We have a couple more things waiting to be hung so they will help. :-)

Don't forget to add your Easter Fun to the Arty Crafty Party link here.

Hopping Into Easter

 Easter already!?!

I think we have started a tradition with our home schooling friends.

Easter and Christmas Cake decorating.

Whilst it's not always technically cake decorating, the workshops are run by a cake decorator (one of our lovely Grandmothers) so it's just easier if we always refer to these group activities as cake decorating.

We never know what the children will be creating, the surprise is half the fun and the grand reveal this time around was definitely worth the wait.

Decorated Easter Egg Bunnies.

Aren't they just adorable! Loads of fine motor work and creative finesse involved. And let's not forget the eating component now shall we.

Past Cake Decorating Activities

Christmas Cake Toppers
Dogs, Cats, Pirates & Bonnets