Quick Easter Crafts

Egg Collage

Skills

* Tracing
* Cutting - cardboard, wool, paper
* Glueing

Concepts

* Colour
* Shape - oval, eggs
* Texture

Materials - Basically, anything you can lay your hands on. We used:

* Shredded paper (dyed in various colours)
* Old Easter Egg wrappers (I hassle my relatives every year for wrappers, cards etc.)
* Patty Pans
* Coloured match sticks, paddle pop sticks
* Wool, string
* Cardboard
* Strong glue

Putting it together

We made a template of an oval on cardboard, roughly 20 cms high, although you can choose your own height. The students used the templates to trace the shape onto the cardboard (we had to use hand-over-hand with students who have poor hand function) and then the shapes were cut out. We used coloured cardboard, but if you use plain card, the shapes can be coloured with crayons or paint. The students were given a range of collage materials to choose from and used brushes to apply the glue (althoug finger painting the glue on can be messy but fun and great for finger awareness).

Rabbit Masks

Concepts

* Shapes - ovals, circles, triangles
* Straight/curly
* Textures

Skills

* Cutting
* Gluing

Materials

* Paper Plates
* Pink or black paper (small quantity for the nose)
* Cardboard
* Cotton Wool (or another soft material)
* Pipe Cleaners

Putting it Together

Cut two long, thin ovals for ears, and a small pink or black triangle for the nose. Cut out two oval eyes from the plates. Glue or staple the ears on and glue the cotton wool inside the ears for fluffy ears. Alternatively, you can glue cotton wool over the whole plate for a very fluffy rabbit. The pipe cleaners make the whiskers, or you can use string or wool. Presto - a rabbit mask!

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