We’ve been having fun with all kinds of Easter play activities this past week. Here’s what we’ve been up to.
- Easter Bunny Express – Easter Train Track
For this activity, the kids help the Easter bunny dig up the eggs and deliver them to the correct houses on the Easter Bunny Express train.
My 3 year old son loves his wooden train tracks and my daughter wanted an Easter themed activity so we did an Easter, construction, counting mash-up. I added in some learning elements that I thought would appeal to my 5 year old daughter. Honestly, my son would have been content driving the train around the track for hours, he didn’t need any extras
I made 21 cardboard eggs and 6 cardboard cup baskets. The kids could work on 1-1 correspondence (there are enough eggs for 1 to go to house number 1, 2 for house 2, etc.) and for a little extra challenge for my 5 year old, I added dots to the backs of the eggs for matching with the correct number.
I also intentionally left the egg design uncoloured so my daughter could colour them. She likes to add colour to anything neutral.
Materials
- Train Tracks & trains – Brio
- Tuff Tray – Scholar’s Choice
- Felt Easter bunny – Sewing Seeds Play (save with code: HOUSEOFPLAY10)
- Grimm’s Rainbow & Semi Circles
- Grapat Spring Nins & Fancy Nins – Nest.ca
- Grapat tools & felt pond – Sewing Seeds Plau
- Wood bunnies and flowers – Tiny Fox Hole
2. Easter Play Dough
Play dough is always a winner for us. I ordered some new, super squishy and enticingly scented play dough from Readymade Play Canada . I have become a fast fan of this dough. I do sometimes make my own, but it doesn’t compare to the very soft and silky texture of this dough. And we loved the unique scents – dirt, fresh cut grass, lavender & rain!
I brought out the rest of our Easter play dough trinkets and accessories for some perfect Easter and spring play. Only the little Play-doh bunny stamp roller is new.
Materials
- Easter trinkets and add ins – The Creative Mix Shop (from previous Tinker Tubs)
- Acrylic flowers – Eye Spy Club
- “Basket” tray (Cauldron/ Pot of Gold Tray)- AW and Co. (save with code: HOUSEOFPLAY10)
- Easter resin paintables – Playspiration
- Wood letters – Birch and Bark Natural Wood
- Wood stamps – DIY
The kids love to make cakes, small world scenes and whatever else they can think of. I will leave this playdough activity out in our Art Center area until Easter so they kids can continue to create.
3. Fill an Easter Basket
In this activity, the kids could pretend they’re the Easter Bunny and fill a basket!
I love this activity – we do it every year. It’s so easy, it gives a purpose to the Easter trinkets you’ve collected over the years and it’s a fun sensory and pretend play invitation. This year I used my new Grapat Tinker Tray to organize all the trinkets, but in previous years I used a basket and filled it with whatever Easter stuff we had. The kids love to make up their own little Easter baskets and deliver them around the house. My 3 year old also thought it was fun to hide things in the crinkle paper and pick them out with tongs.
Materials
- Felt carrots, chick, bunny feet, Boho Easter Bunny, felt balls – Sewing Seeds Play (save with code: HOUSEOFPLAY10)
- Folkmanis puppets – Nurtured.ca
- Resin bunnies – The Creative Mix Shop
- Acrylic flowers – Eye Spy Club
- Grapat mandala – The Bohemian Collective
- Bunny bag – handmade gift
Everything else is from the dollar store or Michaels.
4. Easter Bath Surprise
We’ve also been having a little Easter fun in the bath. I added some giant pom poms, plastic eggs, silicone moulds, tongs, egg cups, straws and a strainer into a bubble bath. The kids hopped right in the bath and enjoyed all kinds of festive fun scooping and playing. Anything that helps gets the kids in the bath quicker is good for all of us, so I try to do special baths sometimes.
Materials
Everything is from Dollarama. I will add our Glo Pals light up cubes in the eggs once the kids get them on Sunday.
5. Easter Chick and Sensory Egg Puzzle
I won a beautiful sensory rice mix from Kidfolk & Co. in a giveway and wanted to think of a fun way we could use it. Since it’s bright yellow, it made me think of Easter chicks.
I used our peg board from Eye Spy Club and wove a yellow pipe cleaner through it to make the outline of a chick. The chick needed an egg and since I don’t have a cracked egg tray (although I would like one-lol) I made one out of cardboard.
I added the beautiful mix to another trofast bin along with some yellow flowers, included scoops and a nesting wood egg set. The kids can post the feathers through the peg board to make a fluffy chick, fill the cardboard egg tray with sensory mix and experiment with the materials and wooden egg containers. It will be a bright and cheery activity to leave out for the weekend.
Materials
- Easter Sensory Rice Bin Filler – Kidfolk & Co.
- Wood Peg Board – Eye Spy Club
- Feathers, pipe cleaners – Michaels
- Felt chick – Sewing Seeds Play (save with code: HOUSEOFPLAY10)