Cake Eggs

I found this idea at Grandma Rosie's Texas Home

This Easter season, we baked tiny little egg shaped cakes in empty eggshells. I had a white cake mix, so I divided the batter into 4 bowls and colored the batter blue, purple, green, and yellow. I set 17 egg shells in a round cake pan. Then, we layered the different colors of batter into the eggshells, filling them 1/2 way. I baked them at 350* for 30 minutes. I didn't have my camera at home, so I couldn't take a picture. They sure were beautiful. The colors swirled together as the cake batter raised and baked. My kids decided that they want to do this again next year. Maybe it will become a tradition. Thanks for the idea Grandma Rosie.

Thursday Thirteen: 13 Things to Do for Easter

Thursday Thirteen Meme

• Make Easter Crafts
  
• Go to an Easter Church Service
• Play Easter Group Games
  
• Make Easter Bunny Cupcakes
  
• Go to an Egg Hunt
• Share Your Faith
• Try a New Way to Decorate Eggs
  
• Go to an Easter Parade
  
• Make Easter Paper Crafts and Decorations
  
• Watch an Easter Movie
• Learn About the History, Traditions, and Symbols of Easter
  
• Send Easter Ecards
  
• Get Your Picture Taken with the Easter Bunny at the Mall

Wordless Wednesday: Happy Easter

Wordless Wednesday: Sand Sculpture by Randy Hofman

Knotty Rabbit Craft

This easy rabbit craft just takes:

• an 18 inch square of lightweight flannel or large cotton bandanna
• rubberbands

You can find instructions for how to fold and knot the rabbit at the Family Fun site.

Easter Bunny Cupcakes

For these cupcakes you'll need:

• cupcakes
• white frosting
• shredded coconut
  
• pink decorators' sugar
  
• jelly bean nose
• Sweet Tart eyes
• Large white marshmallows
• Small white marshmallows
  

You can get this recipe at the Family Fun site.

Easter Unit Study

Writing:

• Write a story about Easter
• Write an Easter play.
• Write a letter to the Easter Bunny.
• Write an interview with the Easter Bunny.
  
• Write a poem or song about Easter or Spring.
• What Easter means to me.
• Write about the religious meaning of Easter.
  
• Describe an activity that you are doing for Easter.
• Write about your favorite Easter.
• Describe the Easter Bunny.
• What is Easter like at your home?
• What would you ask the Easter Bunny?
• Make up an Easter recipe. Write down the ingredients and directions.
• Describe what you eat for Easter dinner.
• Do you think Easter is too commercialized?
• Write about your family's Easter traditions.
• Easter alliterations print out
  

Reading:

• Borrow Easter related books from the library.
• Read the Resurrection story in the Bible.
• 5 worksheets to use with Clifford's Easter by Bridwell
• 5 worksheets to use with Happy Easter, Biscuit by Capucilli
• 5 worksheets to use with The Easter Bunny That Overslept by Friedrich
  
• A Rebus Story Print Out
• Easter Hat comprehension (easy)
  
• Princess Easter comprehension
• Charlie's Easter comprehension
• Easter Eggs comprehension
  
• Bunny Ears comprehension
  

Spelling:

• Easter Word Scramble
• Easter Word Search
  
• Spelling Word List

Math:

• Compare prices and figure out the sale price of Easter candy.
• Make up a math game using Easter advertisement inserts.
• Circle items in a grocery store advertisement and then add the prices together.
  
• Calculate how much is needed when making Easter decorations.
• Measure and double recipes while baking for Easter.
• Sort types of Easter candy and make a graph.
• Sort candy into groups and multiply.
  
• How many hours, minutes, or seconds until Easter?
• Easter Themed Math Worksheets
• Easter Egg Picture Graph 1
  
• Easter Egg Bar Graph 2
  
• Easter Bonnet Bar Graph

History and Geography:

• Activities, Books, and Recipes about The Resurrection
  
• Learn about Easter Traditions around the world.
• Learn about Easter Symbols.
• Take the Easter Quiz.
• Read about the history of Easter at Annie's Easter History Page.
• The history of Easter Candy.
• The history of the White House Easter Egg Roll.
• Learn about Easter Island located in the South Pacific.
  

Science:

• Rabbits and Chickens
  
• Learn about Rabbit Anatomy.
• Learn about the different Breeds of Chickens.
• Chicken Egg and Embryo label me worksheets
  

• Chocolate
• View the Making Chocolate Video at the Hershey site.
• Learn all about chocolate at Chocolate: The Exhibition.
• Learn interesting facts about Chocolate when you take the online Chocolate Quiz.
• Make a chocolate desert.

• Easter Lilies
• Grow and propagate Easter lilies
• Easter Lily bulb production
  

Arts and Crafts:

• Family Fun
• DLTK
• Danielle's Place
• Twin Grove Middle School
• Decorate Cakes and Cupcakes
  

P.E.

• Classic Egg Relay
• Egg and Wooden Spoon Race
• Lame Hen Game
• Carrot Scavenger Hunt
• Easter Egg Treasure Hunt
• Egg Rolling
• Egg Bowling
• Egg Toss
• Knock 'ems
• Cream Countryside

Easter & St. Patrick's Day, Thematic Unit This book is literature based, cross-curricular, and ready to use. It provides activities, many of them hands-on, for all areas of the curriculum, including math, science, language arts, social studies, physical education, art, and music. It includes lesson plans, activities, worksheets, management ideas, and a bibliography. Books used with this unit are: "Leprechauns Never Lie" by Lorna Balian "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter. $8.49

Frugal Easter Ideas

Easter Egg Cookie Cutter
Last year, I wanted to make Egg shaped sugar cookies with the kids. However, I didn't want to have to buy an egg shaped cookie cutter. I discovered that the opening of an empty tin can shapes into an oval very easily.

Easter Gift
Since I have 5 children, we decided not to do Easter baskets. I feel that the total cost is more than I want to spend. Instead, we buy a group gift for the kids - like a DVD or game.

Easter Egg Hunt
It is our tradition to have an egg hunt on Easter. We reuse the same plastic eggs every year. Each egg gets a few pieces of candy or a coin put inside. To keep it fair, we divide up all the findings at the end of the hunt.

Easter Candy
If you want to give your kids candy for Easter here is a way that will cost less. The day after Halloween, buy some of the leftover bagged candy bars at 1/2 price and freeze them until Easter.