Simple Easter Activities

‘Hoppy’ Easter Everyone! Here are just a few simple ideas to kick start your Easter holidays with that my children really enjoyed. They are simple to achieve and use little resources. Have fun!

Play doh Easter Eggs

Eggs like you’ve never seen before. You can just use play doh but we did have fun using glitter, googly eyes and pom pom balls. We also sold them at our market play stall afterwards. They were quite expensive and according to the shop keeper you weren’t allowed to eat them until Easter day!

Bird Feeder

Whilst everything else is shut the ‘Birdie Pub’ is open for business over the Easter Weekend. Equipment shown below, just remember to add a stick inside for a perch as we forgot!

Flower Play

Pick common wild flowers from your garden or on your walk and use fine motor skills to post the stems through the holes of a sieve. Use them afterwards to create a name plaque.

Egg Target Practice

Forgot the recycling this week? Perfect, then use any tubs or tubes, cut the bottoms off and sellotape down on a sloping surface. Then use ‘egg shaped’ balls for target practice. We did use a hard boiled egg to start with but it was soon demolished!

Shadow Bunnies

Try drawing around your shadows with chalks and then add bunny ears for some Easter Fun. We even drew a trail from our house, down our street for people to follow and find the bunnies.

Dandelion Boats

One way to rid your garden from weeds! All you need is dandelions, doc leaves and water. If you don’t have a stream use a bucket, your paddling pool or even an old bit of drainpipe.

Egg and Duck Hunt with a difference!

All you need is a water pistol, egg cups to place soft plastic balls into and rubber ducks (although not essential). This was alot of fun for both my 2 and 4 year old.

Put the eggs into the cups and place somewhere where they so they can fall off (we used a bench). It soon becomes a target practice game with an Easter twist! Aim and fire the water gun at the eggs and ducks within a time limit or see how many you can knock down before your water runs out. Extend by taking in turns to hide the eggs and ducks around the garden at different heights before aiming at them. My 2 year old loved helping me to hide the ducks and retrieving them. She also enjoyed replacing the balls onto the egg cups again. It was a winner for both children!

Bobbing Easter Eggs

Using a tuff spot tray, paddling pool or bucket place soft plastic balls and ducks into the water for the little ones to catch with nets, scoops or their hands. My daughter loved rolling them down the slide for daddy to catch as well and we added bubbles to the water to make it extra fun.

Easter Egg Sensory Play

Placing different sized pom poms balls into an egg carton with tweezers and scoops kept my little one focused for ages. She loved the challenge of trying to transfer the pom poms and it was great for her fine motor skills. To extend the play we tried transferring the poms poms in and out of water containers and added glitter for effect. We have now frozen the pom poms for tomorrow and we’ll have fun melting these in the sunshine!