I don't tend to do a lot of Easter craft…it is usually a little too structured and parent led for the toddler age group I feel.
But as this is the first year the toddler twosome will really understand the excitement of Easter I did want to do a few simple little activities that would allow the girls to explore and create without too much intervention from me or direction on how their Easter craft should ‘look'!.
It was really sweet to see the excitement on their face when I said we were going to be making some Easter Eggs for our Easel Feltboard!
This is the perfect activity for when you don't really want lots of mess and paint everywhere! I set up a simple little invitation to play and create while the girls were having their afternoon nap.
I put out some egg shapes cut from felt (yes they are a bit wobbly but never mind!)…they ranged from large down to small as I wanted to be able to use them on our feltboard as a sequencing activity.
A few bright stickers of various shapes with a peelable backing and also a few sheets of our favourite dot stickers and we were ready to go!
The girls quickly realised they needed to peel the backs off the stickers before they would stick to the felt…I purposely left it to them to figure that one out – good to challenge those problem solving skills!
They had so much fun decorating their eggs and because the stickers came back off the felt easily they were able to rearrange their designs a few times until they had them just the way they wanted!
Fantastic practice for those fine motor skills too as they worked on peeling the backing off the stickers and picking them up and repositioning.
As they finished the stickers and assessed their masterpieces they decided they needed some ‘sparkles Mummy please' I was really hoping for a low mess afternoon and glitter inside wasn't going to be an option so I compromised and offered a little gold glitter paint with a few brushes.
Definitely added a little ‘sparkle' to those eggs!
The next day I set up our easel feltboard on the craft table and let them have a play with sticking their special eggs to the board any way they wanted to before I began talking about big and small…
I asked the girls to point out the biggest and smallest eggs and put one at each end of the board. We then started at the biggest egg and worked our way down through the sizes with my help.
I then encouraged the girls try putting them in order without any prompting from me. This initiated lots of discussion and we didn't talk about which ones were ‘wrong' but rather whether they were bigger or smaller than the egg either side of them.
They didn't get it correct every time of course but they tried really hard and it led to them pointing out other things that were big and small around the room.
Tara also began to count them as she worked and then name the colours as she moved them around….Ruby decided she needed to rearrange her stickers a few times!
This is the great part about having the Double sided feltboard…they both got to work on sequencing in their own way.
Apparently it also makes for a special tunnel to play in an imaginary world with your twin – something that kept them busy for quite awhile!
Do you like to do Easter craft with toddlers?
I have a couple more simple ideas to share during the week if you need a little inspiration. They are very basic and easy for the kids to do themselves!
If you wanted to make this activity easier for younger toddlers you could do a different colour for each size egg and also start with less eggs…I would suggest 3. You could also forget the Easter theme and just do with shapes. Whatever works for your toddler…they will still be having fun and learning!
Not many sleeps now!
Warm Wishes….
Great Easter activity Jode! I really like your felt board ideas 🙂 And the girls look like they really got into the decorating!
So sweet, felt is so lovely to play with. It’s been a while since I’ve visited, love all the crazy things you get up to and that day on the beach looks divine
Lovely and bright, looks like fun and they did so well
Thanks for sharing Jode
Thanks for sharing Jode. Have shared to sulia and the rest 🙂
Such a simple craft for kids. Great way to expand their creativity. Love
This will be a great activity around here 🙂 There’s been a little break from our felt board but with a recent play space make-over I hope to get it back up and into our rhythm!