Easter Ideas
Tissue Paper Tinting
Cut the desired shape out of construction paper. Provide children with small pieces of art tissue paper (you need the kind that bleeds when it gets wet) and a spray bottle filled with water. Encourage children to cover the shape with different pieces of tissue paper and then have them mist it well with water. Let the shape dry completley before removing the tissue paper.
Easter Garden
About 2 weeks before Easter, plant grass seeds in a shallow container (plastic is recommended however a cardboard box lined with tin foil also works). Leave one corner just plain dirt, for where you will have the enpty tomb. Stick a few silk or artificial flowers in among the grass. Cut about 1/3 of a toilet paper tube and insert in the dirt so that about half is buried and the other half is sticking out. This is the "empty tomb". Place a rock learning against the cardboard tube to the side. Add a sign made from a postickle stick that says "Jesus Is Alive!" or "The Stone was Rolled Away" and insert it into the grass.
Crosses on a Hill
For younger children, provide a copy of the crosses on a hill (Jesus' cross inn the center and the thieves on the sides). These are done all in black as silhouette. Provide the children with yellow and red liquid water colors and let them paint the entire page to form a beautiful sunrise or sunset effect.
Older children may be able to tear out a hill and the cross to give the picture a more rugged effect.
Waxed Paper Wreaths
Prepare for each child, a large paper plate that has had the center cut out. Provide children with a variety of egg shapes traced on construction paper that they can cut out. Encourage children to decorate the eggs using collage materials, tempera paint and q-tips, or markers and crayons. When finished, glue the eggs to the bottom side of the paper plate circle to make a wreath. Punch two side-by-side holes at the top and threat a lenght of raffia or ribbon through to make a loop to hang the wreath with and a bow.
