1) We make shakers out of the egss. Fill with rice or beans (or ?) and then SUPERGLUE them shut. We bring them out to us during music time. We also listen to the eggs and guess that's inside. During the week before Easter we take a morning and play hide the eggs (empty). The kids love to do this over and over. I always put a limit on the number of eggs each child can find so everyone ends up with the same number. When the older ones have their quota, they help the younger ones. 2) EGG BASKETS materials: 1 medium size balloon hot glue bottle of liquid starch glue gun spray bottle scissors 8" piece of yarn bowl crotch string( from local craft store) basket lace and goodies First you blow the balloon up . ( Not too big) Then you take the string and you cover the whole balloon leaving very little balloon showing. Pour the starch into the spray bottle and spray all of the balloon- Tie the piece of yarn around the knot on the balloon. Hang the balloon to the basket handle and let drip dry. You might want to place a bowl underneath to catch the excess starch. Over the next few days, keep spraying the balloon once the starch has dried. This will cause the string to harden. Once hard and dry, pop the balloon and cut a hole in the side of the balloon shape. Then take the lace and hot glue to the cut area. makes a cute little basket. 3) Stain Glass Easter Egg First you would save the plastic that is the run off from the laminating machine. Cut out egg shapes from construction paper......Save the egg shapes for possible later project......but use the outline for this one. Set aside for now.... Next cut the laminating plastic to fit on the construction paper......... Glue to construction paper..........Then have children glue tissue paper (with watered down glue) to the plastic......When it dries.......hang in the window..... We sometimes make crosses the same way since we are a Christian preschool. 4) You will need Wilton candy molds or a stoneware cookie mold in an Easter egg shape or other design. Tear up a piece of pink construction paper (or any color) into 1" pieces. Place in a blender with 1 cup of very warm water and let set for 10 minutes. Then process for 2 minutes on low and 1 minute on high until the paper is mushy and fibrous. Squeeze out most of the water and push this pulp into the molds. Press a sponge or paper towel onto the smooth side of the mold until most of the water is gone. Bake at 200 degrees for 1 hour or sit on top of a clothes dryer or other warm place for 2-3 days. Paper should pop out of molds using the tip of a sharp knife to loosen. If it doesn't come right out, it's not yet dry. These can be hung on Easter Egg trees or just used as refrigerator magnets or to make necklaces for the children. These can be painted with tempera or acrylics and decorated with glitter. These also make nice pins for Mother's Day if you glue a pin backing on the back side. This is a great project when cost is a factor. 5) Out of paper plate you can make a bunny mask. Cut holes out for the eyes. Draw on the nose, add felt strips or yarn for the whiskers, make a mouth and glue on 2 chicklets for the teeth, add ears that you have precut ( with the K's I let them cut out their own bunny ears) I use elastic to tie around the childs head. The children love it. (Make sure you tell your children not to eat the teeth (gum) because it will have glue on it. (With the younger children (3's) I used to let them glue on felt pieces for the teeth.) 6) Easter Warning I was thinking about Easter and remembered a few years back about what happened one afternoon at my daycare.  We were having lots of fun hiding and seeking the plastic colored easter eggs (I had them taped closed!) One of my 18 month olds went behind the rocking chair to find a egg and when she reappeared (a matter of sceconds) she couldn't shut her mouth!  She had pryed open the egg and stuck it curved side in, into her mouth!  A suction had occured and there was no way that I could break the suction!  After 3 quick tries to break the suction I was forced to call 911.  Right has they answered I was able to get my little finger behind the egg and break the seal!  She was fine....I talked a few minutes to the operated...assured him that she was ok (giving palse, respirations etc. over the phone) and hung up and called her parents.  She stayed the remaining of the day and we put the eggs up and haven't used them since! So, please be careful when playing with them! I thought they were safe by taping them close....the parents thought it was a cute ideal of bringing their baskets and having the hunt!  Now we use Animal crackers instead! a daycare provider 7) Make chickens by outlining two triangles or have the older children trace a small and below it a larger triangle. Then have them tear small pieces of yellow paper and glue on as "feathers."  a small orange piece of triangle shaped paper folded in half can be glued on so that half of it sticks out as a "beak." 8) Decorated Eggs: Materials: Legg's eggs or small blown up balloon, Masking tape, Glue, Brushes, Coloured tissue Procedure: 1. Put tape around seam of Legg's eggs. 2. Brush glue (watered down a bit) all over egg. 3. Place different coloured tissue paper pieces onto the glue. 4. Dip finger into glue and be sure all paper edges are down by rubbing glue over paper. (Child may need help with this.) 9)   What Is It?: Tall ears Twinkly nose Tiny tail And....hop, he goes! 10)     Sky Bunnies: The sky is full of bunny clouds So soft and fat and white, I wonder if they're hiding eggs For stars to find at night. Because it's Easter Eve, you know, And there's no reason why There shouldn't be an Easter hunt In meadows in the sky. 11)     One Little Bunny: One little bunny Peeking through the grass When she/he sees me He/she ducks down fast! 12)   Mini Easter Baskets: Wash and dry a margarine container. Punch a hole on both sides of container` - near the top with a paper punch. Wrap 2 pipe cleaners around each other and insert each end into a hole and twist the ends together for the handle. Glue fabric and ribbon to outside of container. Decorate the handle with ribbon and a bow. Fill the basket with treats!! 13) coloring eggs- thumb print colors on a white egg rubberband and dip colors add a little oil to the dye mix and get a marbelized egg 14) Broken egg activities- 1.Add a small candle or warmer candle and light 2.with toothpick and a tissue paper sail make a sailing ship 3. add a little soil and grass seeds and grow some grass cotton balls on a lamb or bunny picture Carrot hiding game- hide construction paper carrots all over the house and send the kids looking for them- when found they can redeem them for small prizes like raisin boxes, etc.. 15) Jelly-Bean Countdown Real Jelly beans are so colorful, it doesn't take long for them to get eaten!  Have your little ones help you count down the disappearing colors of jelly beans in this Flannelboard rhyme. Five little jelly beans; I wish I had more! I'll eat the [color word] one; Now there are four Four little jelly beans; Tasty as can be. I'll eat the {color word] one; Now there are three. Three little jelly beans; Only a few. I'll eat the [color word] one; Now there are two. Two little jelly beans; Eating them is fun. I'll eat the [color word] one; Now there is one. One little jelly bean; The last one for me. I'll eat the [color word] one; I'm as happy as can be! 16) Jelly Beans In my Tummy! Jelly beans might come in a variety of pretty colors, but they weren't made to admire.  They were made for eating!  Open a bag of jelly beans and invite each child in the group to take one.  Ask each child to hold up his jelly bean when you name its color.  Once each child is sure of his bean's color, have him eat it!  Then sing this silly song.  As each different color word is substituted, encourage the children who ate the bean of that color to stand up and rub their tummies. Sung to the tune of "Skip to my Lou" [Red] jelly beans--yum, yum. [Red] jelly beans--yum, yum [Red] jelly beans--yum, yum Jelly beans in my tummy! 17) Pretty Easter Egg precut Egg shapes from white construction paper fill cups with water and different colors of food coloring let the children use eye droppers to squeeze the colors onto their easter egg. these come out so colorful! 18) This is something I do with my K's class. I draw or copy a Easter Picture - Bunny, egg, - and then make a number/letter match. The children have to match the correct letter to the numbers. The message might be: Your a good egg..... Happy Easter...... or whatever you want. 19) We play pass the Easter egg. The children make a circle and pass the egg to the music. When the music stops the one with the egg is out.. We've also played egg toss with the plastic Easter eggs. The children line up facing each other and then toss the eggs back and forth. The one to still have their egg when the music stops is the winner. (I give all an Easter sticker just for playing the game. The winners also get to pick out of the "prize box". I do this activity with K's. 20) Make bunny faces for four children out of construction paper. The bunny needs a white head, two white ears with pink inside. two eyes made of any color. The nose is a black circle on a pink oval with black whiskers drawn on. the mouth is a black smile shape with two large white teeth. I made a bow-tie for each bunny out of yellow. Laminate all pieces. The object of the game is to make a bunny face. Using a die, for each number rolled you get a piece of the bunny's face. For example, roll a one and get a head, roll a two and get an ear, roll a three and get an eye, roll a four and get a nose, roll a five and get a mouth and roll a six and get the tie. Keep rolling until all have created a bunny. 21) Last year I divided the children into two groups. We all wore our bunny ears and pretended to be bunnies in our bunny hop relay race. The kids loved it. We had to hop like a bunny and drop a plastic egg into the basket. The first team to get all the eggs in the basket was the winner. They each got a cert. for ice cream at McDonalds. The other team picked a sticker from the sticker box. No one went away sad. 22) Hide colored Easter eggs around the room and let the children search for them. This is always a definite do at our Easter parties. Make sure you have enough eggs though so every child will get some. They always enjoy eating them for snack or with lunch on party day. 23) I made a colorful easter egg shape and covered it with contact paper. Then we play "Easter Bunny, Easter Bunny, where's your egg?" It's played like the familiar game "Doggie, Doggie where's your bone?" The group sits in a circle and choose on child to sit in the middle as the "bunny". The bunny hides their eyes as one person is chose to sit on the egg picture. Then the group yells out "Easter bunny, Easter bunny, where's your egg? Somebody stole it from your home!!" The easter bunny then has three guesses to find the child who is sitting on it. That child then becomes the new bunny in the middle. And so on. We've also played it with valentine hearts at valentine parties, shamrocks at St Pat's Day, etc. 24) Egg Shakers I use the large plastic Easter eggs and partially fill them with things that will make an interesting sound when shook.  Some things you can use are unpopped popcorn kernals, marbles, pennies, cut up straws, etc.  Use your imagination.  I hot glue the egg together so there is no risk of children choking. 25) Bunny, Bunny, Rabbit Same as duck, duck, goose except you change the words. 26) Bright, Shiny Noses Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean Some rabbits have bright shiny noses I'm telling you now as a friend The reason their noses are shiny-- Their powder puff's on the wrong end Wrong end, wrong end Their powder puff's on the wrong end