Easter Holiday Activity Ideas

Art and craft

https://www.easypeasyandfun.com/easter-egg-paper-weaving/

https://happy-nest.co.uk/blog/nanny-neuzas-easter-arts-and-crafts-

activities

https://www.easypeasyandfun.com/easter-crafts-for-kids/

• Dye hard-boiled eggs and decorate them with felt tipped pens, stickers,

feathers, sequins, gems, lentils, seeds. Create characters out of them.

• Have an Easter egg hunt your house or in the garden if you have one.

• Create an Easter bonnet out of newspaper/recycling paper.

• Do some observational drawing with a pencil/coloured pencils of signs of

spring in your garden or of objects you like/toys in your home.

• Mrs Martin’s Idea:-

Draw a piece of fruit or tin of food.

Choose a piece of fruit or a tin of food and place it on a plain piece of paper.

Make a drawing, looking carefully at the shapes, colours, textures and

patterns.

*Sketch the main shape in pencil.

*If you have coloured pencils/pens, add colour.

*Add textures, patterns and details.

Research artist Paul Cezanne (fruit paintings) and Andy

Warhol(Campbell’s Soup Cans)

Materials:

A4 white paper, pencil, coloured pencils and pens.

RME • Find out about Easter customs.

• Read or watch the Easter story.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/easter/easterstory.aspx

Outdoors

• Make your own Bug Hotel, remembering how we learned to do it in P.2

on our visit to Pilrig Park.

• Do some nature rubbings with wax crayons.

• Spend some quiet time watching for birds. How many different types

can you spot? What are they doing? You might like to draw a picture of

each one and find out its name.

• Do some sky watching. Look at the clouds and the colours at different

times of the day.

Here are loads of ideas for outdoors activities.

https://littlepinelearners.com/100-low-prep-activities-you-can-do-on-

your-own-backyard/

Indoors • Plant seeds – you can buy some from a supermarket

• Do some baking:

Here is an easy Easter treat to make:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/eastereggnests_93841

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/easter-kids for lots

more recipe treats!

• Make up your own quiz.

• Create your own jigsaw puzzle by doing a picture on a piece of card and

then drawing wiggly lines on it and cutting them out.

• Play card games that you know and invent a new one.

Music

• Make some shakers using insides of toilet rolls and lentils, peas or

barley. Make a cereal box guitar or drums from other recycled materials

at home. Use them to create your own symphony!

• Try out some music with Myleene Klass -

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh2wgJ5tOrixYBn6jFXsXQ

• Try out some of these activities from the music teacher Mrs Troost.

A) Practise Singing:- Sing your 2, 5 and 10 times tables

B) Practise Rhythm: - Using any music of your choice

• Move to the beat

• Plod to every 2 beats

• Jump once for every 4 beats

• Jog to every half beat

Also do this to clapping or tapping.

C) Copycat Rhythms: Do with another person

They clap/ tap a rhythm that you tap back and vice versa.