Easter Fun With Friends !

We are very blessed to have some good family friends to share this home school journey with. On special occasions we like to get together and do some activities as a group. Learning together is so much FUN!

We had various activities set up and the children were split into two groups, one for the over 5 and one for the under 5's and we end up with quite even numbers.

Decorating and creating an Easter card or two for family and friends

Creating a bunny out of paper plates and other craft materials which we would then assemble together to make an Easter bunny basket to fill with our Easter chocolates that we made by Melting Chocolate and pouring it into Easter moulds.

We finished the afternoon by sharing a lovely afternoon tea out on the deck and run off some energy in the backyards with our friends. 

A lovely way to celebrate this special Easter season that is coming up !!!

Some easter FUN

With Easter coming up we raved the craft and bargain shops for some Easter craft to do at home with friends. We had some days at our place with friends to share the fun with and we had some Easter craft fun at our friends places too. Here are some of the things we got up to.

• We found these beautiful cases to wrap around eggs. We pricked the egg at both ends and blew the egg out and rinsed them. Then put the egg in the casing and put it on a spoon. Dip the egg into boiling water for 3 seconds and watch the casing wrap the egg. The result is really pretty.

• The children decorated small plain noodle boxes with paint, stickers and collage bits n pieces. They filled the boxes with coloured feathers, little chicks, a couple of chocolate eggs and their decorated egg. (above)

• We also found some foam chicken cut outs and enjoyed collaging these with various colourful bits including googly eyes.

• Using icing pens and sprinkles we decorated some egg shaped biscuits.

• Painting and decorating eggs(with the inside blown out) then popping them in a piece of decorated egg carton is another easy but fun craft we did this week.

• Colouring in Easter eggs and bunnies and making an Easter wreath by gluing them onto a cut out paper plate

• Painting egg carton pieces yellow and sticking one on top of the other, decorating them and turning them into chickens and popping a couple small eggs inside. These are really cute.

• Of course the Easter chocolate. We simply melted chocolate an poured it into Easter moulds to make Easter shaped chocolate.

• Easter Cake Decorating Workshop with our home school group

• We always include the true meaning of Easter story in this lead up week and do some related colouring in/activity sheets

Lots of fun simple ideas to do with the family at Easter! Here are some photos....

John 3vs 16: for God so loved the world that he gave his only son for whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life