Throughout the Easter holidays we are trying to do at least one simple craft activity a day
This one took just 10 minutes from start to finish
We all enjoyed it before breakfast
And now our trees look very pretty
With our Easter eggs for birds
And the visiting birds are pretty too
When Esther and William woke in the morning
We all came downstairs
And I put out some long spring coloured pipe cleaners from Baker Ross
And a packet of Kelloggs Fruit Loops
I showed Esther and William how to take a pipe cleaner
Make a loop at the end
And then thread the fruit loops on to the stick
I talked to them about matching colours
Making patterns and repeating patterns
To start with we each did one colour
And then they followed my patterns
It was a lovely way to start the day
Great for the development of fine motor skills too
Once we had lots of pipe cleaners laden with Fruit Loops
I showed Esther and William how to make them in to egg shapes
Easter eggs for birds!
We then took our rainbow eggs
Out into the garden
And we hung them in Tilda’s apple tree
The blossoming apple tree
That shaded Tilda through her only summer
It will forever be Tilda’s tree
And it is lovely to fill it with colour for her
And the birds
This Easter
Brilliant and so lovely, I have just shown Amelia and she is keen to do this tomorrow, so I am off to shops first thing. Your ideas always inspire me, and we have done quite a few of them.