It’s nearly Easter and that means that it’s almost time for half-term fun with the kids. Have you got any plans made for the weeks ahead? I know that I haven’t thought much about the activities we will be doing over the fortnight, besides a four year olds superhero birthday party!
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We really enjoy Baking!
Cadbury has joined up with the National Trust to offer ‘Easter Egg Trails’ at over 200 locations around the country over the Easter weekend. The Hunts are set in the grounds and kids get clues to lead them to chocolate eggs. Trails cost around £2 depending on location
Sounds like lots of fun Lynsey! great idea 🙂
An Easter egg hunt. You can have fun making really creative clues for each other.
making snowmen here!
This Easter we’ll be hands on with easy peasy crafts such as pasta painting and potato printing
The nattural history muesum in cardiff is fantastic. It has dinosaurs, a volcano and best of all its free!
We have saved all our christmas and birthday cards, some we make into bookmarks or picture frames and with the rest we will make a huge collage/poster for Ella’s playhouse.
easter egg hunt, creative art with the wrappers and boxes. some baking and a nice nature trail through the park
I have been making Easter baskets with my kids using coloured paper strips! They have personalised them with stickers, glitter and felt tips!!! They are going to add shredded tissue paper inside and I will pop in some small chocolate eggs for a treat! They have made one for Granny and Grandad too!
Nature hunt in the garden, park or wood. Geocaching is also fun, there are loads of websites about it.
baking rice crispy cakes
Board Game Olympics
Doing LOTS of baking- get cookie cutters, icing and plenty of smarties and other decorations to go mad with!
We like to go for walks and collect leaves, sticks, stones etc, then use the collected items to make art at home.
We take a beautiful stroll around the grounds of Hampton Court Palace every Easter were there is
plenty of festive activitys for the kids to do there,lovely walks down on the River Thames watching
the steam boats go by and across the road from the Palace is a large Royal Park called Bushy Park
were you can park your car for free all day, the Diana fountain is situated in the park as well as a
large Kids play ground, Red and Fallow Deer still roam and swans swim in the lakes, a boating pool
is also situated in the park, its a great place to take a picnic and the kids love it there because there
is plenty to do and its all free there is a little cafe in the park if you fancy a cup of tea or an Ice cream,
don’t forget to take you camera as there is loads of natural beauty to shoot in the royal park.
mini egg treasure hunt
a walk over the meadows looking at spring flowers ( if they are not hidden by snow!)
visit the museums in London
Learn to make balloon animals together.
Make sock puppets.
Hold a family dance in your living room!
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Make cards to mail to grandparents or friends.
Play Charades.
Play hide and seek.
Play Simon Says.
Play I-spy.
We love having a junk modelling day making lots of craft things with “junk” from around the house!
Do lots of baking
Melting down or breaking up the tons of leftover easter egg chocolate and making yummy cakes and biscuits and getting the kids to decorate with sprinkles, icing and decorations! Such fun! xoxo
We are doing arts and crafts and baking at home.
Love baking
We used to love going to the Cwmcarn Forest Drive. There’s lots of spots to stop and take in the beautiful valley views. Big play area, forest walks and a lake. You can take a picnic or try out a BBQ in one of the designated areas. Costs about £5.
Baking, easter hunt, sticking and glueing, inside picnic
feed the local ducks. The only cost is some stale bread.
Fossil Hunting
we go fishing very cheap and fun
Fill a craft box full of buttons, scraps of material, cardboard, paints, ribbons and glue for rainy days.
We use small balloons to make papier mache easter eggs, and when they are dry we can paint them. Hours of fun for the cost of balloons flour?wallpaper paste, a couple of newspapers, and some paint.
We spend the day in the park. I make sure to bring plenty of snacks
eg crisps, nuts raisins, dried fruit, etc. are great and I pack plenty
of things to entertain, such as a few books, toys, a portable DVD player
(be sure to bring extra batteries). I always bring a small pillow and
blanket from home.
My children like to bring along their own colouring books, a Doodle
Pad, their Leap Pads (with a few booklets), and scrap paper that they
can make their own drawings with and play games such as tic-tac-toe. My
daughter used to like to bring along a doodle bear when she was younger
so that she could draw on that as well, and my son likes to bring along
some action figures to play with. I found that buying a Rose Art kit is
great! It has crayons, markers, colouring books, colouring sheets, and
stickers that they can colour. It definitely keeps them entertained.
We like to do ‘treasure hunts’ where the kids have to find items of nature, a pebble, a flower, a worm etc etc. Provides hours of entertainment.
Always take a picnic with you on a day out, much cheaper than buying expensive lunches and treats
Go to the park and make a teddy bears picnic!!
Maybe try growing some mustard cress. Take the unbroken shell from a boiled egg, draw a face on it and sow mustard cress seeds on some damp kitchen paper inside it. The seeds will grow quickly and look like hair.
Go to a local museum and join in with their Easter activities
Fruit picking – cheaper than the supermarket and good for you too!
Easter egg hunt, lots of baking together, we will be making an Easter bonnet and playing in the park,
Easter treasure hunt followed by enjoying the Easter eggs together.
A scrapbook to hold on to! Fun and they learn stuff too.
We do lots of arts and crafts card making egg painting and baking
Easter egg hunts in garden with picnic to follow weather permitting. Or in lounge and picnic on floor if weather bad
A picnic on the beach
Having a teddy bears picnic inside is fantastic!
Grab all of the little ones teddies / favourite toys and set them around in a circle on a blanket inside. Put plastic cups/bowls and plates out & some nibbles! Make sure you share the food with the teddies! (They get hungry!)
Make some Yummy Easter Cupcakes together!
We love to go the park and feed the ducks, as well as play on the swings, follow it up with a trip to the library and you have a pretty good family day out
Do lots of painting and drawing, kids like to be messy and creative
I like to make chocolate eggs I think its quite fun and great to eat
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