Category: Activities

Materials
Crayons shaped like eggs
White Paper

Directions
Invite your child to make a colorful drawing using crayons that are shaped like eggs. Gripping the eggs are great for small hands. Allow your child to explore and draw freely.

Ingredients
Hard-boiled eggs
Vinegar
Food coloring

Directions
Mix 1/2 cup boiling water, 1 teaspoon vinegar and 10 to 20 drops food color in a cup to achieve desired colors. Repeat for each color. Dip hard-boiled eggs in dye for about 5 minutes. Use a slotted spoon, wire egg holder or tongs to add and remove eggs from dye.

What happens when you mix yellow dye with blue dye? Red dye with blue dye? Yellow dye with red dye? Try using a white crayon to make designs on the  hard-boiled egg; then place the egg in the dye.  What do you observe?  Be creative. 

Enjoy making egg salad with the eggs once your child is ready to let them go. 

Materials
Shaving Cream
Elmer’s School Glue
Small bowl
Spoon
Blue construction paper

Directions
Place 1/2 cup of shaving cream and 1/2 cup of glue in a small bowl. Invite your child to mix the glue and shaving cream well. Once well mixed, encourage your child to spoon the mixture onto the construction paper and gently spread around the paper. Allow the mixture to dry.  It makes a nice 3-D picture.  

To make the clouds look like storm clouds as in the Bible story, Noah’s Ark, add a drop of black tempera paint.

Materials:
Colored plastic eggs
Small “surprises” to hide inside the eggs

Directions
Place eggs on a table, in a basket, or hide them around the house.  Your child will love searching for them, opening and closing them, and finding fun surprises inside.  You can even encourage them to sort the eggs by colors. It’s a great fine motor activity that your child will love to play over and over.

Materials

Bin or container
5 cups of flour 
1 cup of baby oil (or cooking oil for taste safe)
Play tools (i.e. play dough and kitchen tools, bowls and cups)

Directions

Measure, pour and mix!! Invite your child to help add all ingredients to your sensory bin and mix by hand. You should be able to grab a chunk and mold it and have it hold. If not, you may need more oil. Too oily, add more flour! Set it out with your tools and enjoy exploring the cloud dough with your child! It has such a soft, smooth feel as you rub it between your fingers.

Materials:
Assortment of artificial flowers (these can be purchased at a Dollar Store)
Colander

Directions:
Invite your child to choose one flower at a time and poke the stem of the flower through a hole in an inverted colander.  Watch as a beautiful floral arrangement unfolds! 

Materials
Paper plate
Green tempera paint
Sponge brush or wand

Directions
Cover the table surface with large paper or use newspaper.  Cut large hole in center of paper plate so the plate resembles a wreath.  Pour a small amount of green paint into a plastic container or pie tin.  Invite your child to dip the sponge brush or wand into the paint and dab onto the paper plate.  Cover the entire plate.  Once the paint has dried, encourage your child to decorate the wreath with bright, colorful spring shapes.  Use foam shapes, stickers, cut out flowers from construction paper, etc.

Materials
1 handful of cooked spaghetti (cooled)
Tempera paint
Paper plates for paint
1 piece of construction paper
newspaper to cover the work surface

Directions
Cover the table or work space with newspaper. Pour a small amount of tempera paint on to the paper plates – one color per plate. Drop a few spaghetti noodles onto each plate. Invite your preschooler to pick up a few pieces of spaghetti and place them on the construction paper. Encourage your child to explore with the spaghetti and the paint. Once your child has finished painting, allow the paint to dry, discard the spaghetti and paints.

Materials
Potting soil
Flowers (artificial or cut)
Rocks
Shovels
Pots
Plastic bin
Small plastic shovels and rakes

Directions
Pour a bag of potting soil in a bin. Add some rocks, artificial flowers, and small shovels, rakes, and pots. Invite your child to dig and explore.

Ingredients
1 pkg. (3.9 oz.) JELL-O Chocolate Flavor Instant Pudding
2 cups cold milk
1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed
15 OREO Cookies, finely crushed (about 1-1/4 cups), divided
10 worm-shaped chewy fruit snacks
Small artificial flowers (optional)

Directions
Beat pudding mix and milk in large bowl with whisk 2 min. Let stand 5 min. Stir in COOL WHIP and 1/2 cup cookie crumbs.
Spoon into 10 (6- to 7-oz.) plastic cups; top with remaining cookie crumbs.
Refrigerate 1 hour. Top with fruit snacks just before serving. Stick artificial flowers into the dessert, if desired. Enjoy!