1) Color Drop Eggs:     You need food coloring, medicine droppers and coffee filters or "brand name" paper towels (The store brands and generic are too thin)     Cut foam egg cartons into squares for as many colors as you have.   Put a few drops of food color into each cup   Add just a small amount of water to the coloring   Have children use medicine dropper to "suck up" coloring and release onto filter.   As the do this the colors blend - making a beautiful rainbow   Place wet filters on paper to dry (They will firm back up)   Then I put them in an "egg frame"  (An oval with the center out for the filter)   for pretty easter eggs.     Another class in the school does this, but puts the filters into a clothespin and makes butterflies for Mothers day. 2)   For Easter, I know a little early but do this same thing in a clean egg shell.  Just use about 2/3  of the egg shell ( you know - with no top) and draw on a face.  Fill with potting soil and the egg person will grow hair!  3) Foot Shaped Bunnies     Trace around each childs foot on a piece of white construction paper.  Let the children cut them out.  Turn the foot so the narrow end is the head of the bunny.  Decorate with rabbit ears, nose etc... 4)   Fingerprint Easter Eggs     Have a simple picture of an empty eater basket or draw one.  Get different color paints in shallow dishes and let the kids dip there thumbs and make easter eggs in the basket! 5)   Easter Egg Baskets     I sent this in when I first joined the loop.  I learned this 18 yrs ago in Girl Scouts.  I made these with my class and it was a big hit with the parents!  This does take a couple of days so plan in advance!!     Things you need:   Chrochet String ( multi pastel colors) (spelling??)-found in walmart   Liquid Starch   Balloons   Tray   Yarn   Spray bottle   Bowl   Easter favors   easter grass   lace     First you blow up the balloon to medium size..  Just a little bigger than your hand but not too big.  Next take the string and wrap it around the balloon till you cover it..  Make sure you go in all directions and there are no big gaps in it.  Pour the starch in a spray bottle and then some in a bowl. Roll the balloon in the starch....   I used string to hang it from a basket then let it drip onto a tray.  It can get messy so always have something under the balloon.  Once it is dry to touch-- layer with more starch by spraying it. Continue adding  starch until the string is very stiff- stiff enough to hold its own shape.  Once it is completely dry- Pop the balloon.  Take the ballon out of the balloon shaped egg.  I cut a small circle out of the string large enough to put my hand in it and insert easter grass and goodies.  Around the cut edge of the circle-  I reinforce the egg shape with lace and it also makes it look nicer!!  I just use hot glue to glue it.   Then i fill with goodies...     Its really easy once you get started...  You can have the kids help wrap the string and then spray the starch on everyday... and also POP the balloon! They love to do that!!   MAKE SUREYOU TELL THE KIDS THAT THEY ARE VERY DELICATE!  because they will crush!  6)   5 little Easter eggs,     Lovely colors wore;     Mother ate the blue one,     Then there were four.     4 little Easte eggs,     Two and two, you see;     Daddy ate the red one,     Then there were three.     3 little Easter eggs,     Before I knew,     Sister ate the yellow one,     Then there were two.     Two little Easter eggs,     Oh, what fun!     Brother ate the purple one,     Then there was one.     1 little Easter egg,     See me run!!!     I ate the last one,     And then there was none 7)     Funny Little Bunny     Sat upon a stump.     Flicked his floppy little ears     And then he gave a jump! 8) About a month before Easter I send home an egg made out of poster board and ask each family to decorate it however they wish. I give them a week to bring them back to school. I put the names on the back so no one can telll who, if anyone, did not participate. When they come back I put a construction paper basket on the door and pile (tape) the eggs in the basket. I make sure the basket is at kid height so they can easily see all the eggs. In the past we have had great results and positive comments from parents about the project. The size of the egg is about 5 x 3 in. Chris (Rochester) 9) I make each child in the class a bunny face shape cake. Then the children get to decorate it however they want. We use frosting, coconut, jelly beans, licorice, sprinkles, etc.... The children then enjoy eating their creations for snack on the day of our Easter party. 10) I'm a Little Bunny (I'm a little teapot) I'm a little bunny, with a cotton tail; See me hopping down the trail, When I see a carrot --- My ears - they shake! And then, of course, A Bite I take!!! CRUNCH!!!!! 11) Here is an Easter Bunny chant that children love to hop around to: Funny Little Bunny Sat upon a stump. Flicked his floppy little ears And then he gave a jump! My kindergartners love hopping around the room to this chant. 12)    Baby chicks    Take a small cotton ball and dip it in yellow paint.  Once it is    dried you can add eyes and beaks however you want.  Take the chick    and glue it into a piece of an egg carton. This is a rather simple    project but my children loved it. 13) We did this project but we used yellow cottonballs & real egg shells.Save those egg shells when you make eggs.Just wash out the halves & let dry.I glued the egg shell onto a small square of cardboard.We used wiggle eyes & a small triangle of orange for the beak.These really are adorable. 14) Last year we were given a bunch of painted wooden eggs.  The children had a great time rolling them around the room.  They experimented with many things in our room trying to find a way to make their eggs roll the farthest (down the slide, ramps made out of blocks etc.)  They would also hide the eggs around the classroom and have a friend find them.  They had a great time!! They would have probably enjoyed painting the eggs themselves if they weren't already painted! 15) 1. Cut out large egg shapes from easle paper. Encourage the children to paint their egg and then paste patty papers of different colours onto their painting. 2. Collage- Dye eggshells with brightly coloured paint. Allow to dry, then crumble. Children paste as desired. 3. Cut out coloured foil from Easter-egg wrappers and encourage the children to paste on easle paper. 4. Encourage the children to cut and butter Hot Cross Buns 16) Plastic Eggs Collect a variety of plastic eggs, such as brightly colored, speckled and metallic.  Ask one child in a pair to make a pattern.  Encourage his partner to copy or extend the pattern. Invite a child to sort eggs by size then seriate them from smallest to largest. Hide a supply of eggs around the classroom; then invite youngsters to search for the eggs.  As a class, arrange the same colored eggs in rows to create a graph. Have a child measure classroom items by laying eggs end-to-end.  As a challenge ask him to predict the number of eggs needed prior to measuring additional items. Stock your art center with plastic eggs, paint and paper, Invite students to experiment by dipping an egg into paint then rolling it around on a piece of paper that has been placed in a box lid.  To create circle designs, repeatedly press an egg half into paint; then onto a sheet of paper.  Or dip one end of an egg into paint, the press it onto paper to create dots. Invite each child to decorate a plastic egg with dimensional paints, jewels, sequins, and glitter.  Display each egg on a personalized construction paper loop. to prepare this auditory-discrimination game for your youngest preschoolers, collect pairs of same-colored eggs.  Into each pair of eggs, place a different material such as pennies, beans, or cotton balls.   Seal the eggs. Arrange the eggs on the floor.  To play a Concentration-style game, a child shakes two eggs at a time, returning each egg to its original spot until he finds a match.  For older preschoolers, place like materials in different-colored egg pairs. Create an obstacle course for cars and trucks by scattering egg halves open ends down--on the floor of your block area.  Invite a student to maneuver a toy vehicle through he course.  For added fun, invite him to rearrange the halves into a new course. Personalize an egg for each child; then place the eggs in a basket.  Invite a student to choose one egg.  Read the name aloud.  Encourage the child holding the egg to hop along as he delivers it to the child. To prepare this concentration game, trace 24 egg halves onto paper; then cut out the circles.  Attach matching stickers to pairs of the circles.  Tape each circle to an egg half as shown.  to play, a child arranges the egg halves picture side down on the table.  He then lifts the eggs until he has found all the matching sticker pairs. Fill a supply of plastic eggs with rice; then tape around the seams to prevent the eggs from separating.  Challenge a student to toss the eggs into a basket.  Or use the eggs as rhythm instruments. Make a nest by placing Easter grass in a basket.  Tape a chicken cutout to the basket handle.  Place the basket, an egg carton full of plastic eggs, and a set of cards programmed with numerals 1-12 in a center.  Invite a child to choose a card, then place the corresponding number of eggs in the basket. 17) Scrambling for Eggs Put a little bounce in your bunnies' steps with this egg hunt!  In advance, program a class supply of small slips of paper with movement directions such as "Hop like a rabbit" and "Fly like a butterfly."  Insert each slip into a separate plastic egg; then hide the eggs in your room.   To begin, direct each child to find one egg and then return to your group area.  In turn have each child crack open his egg.  Whisper the written direction into his ear; then encourage him to announce the direction to the class and lead the group in the actions.  At the end of the game, have each child replace the paper in his egg, then hide his egg in a new location to prepare for your next egg hunt. 18) I got this idea out of the Woman's Day magazine. You take a piece of yarn or string and thread it thru those soft peep chicks (you can get them in a variety of colors, even blue) and licorice.  Alternate chicks and licorice and you have a necklace. I use colored construction paper eggs the children deocorated and hide them for an Easter egg hunt.  This way they don't get smashed by the toddlers. Fill a jar with jelly beans and let the children guess how many are in the jar.  The one who comes the closes  gets to pass them out to everyone after they have been counted.