Easy Ways to Work on Developmental Skills During Easter

With Easter approaching, you can work on developmental skills, while creating family traditions with these activities. Holidays are great times to address developmental skill building through art.

Crumbled Tissue Paper Chick: Materials: Construction paper, tissue paper, gift bag (old or new), old cardboard, glue, scissors, tape, pipe cleaner (optional)

1. Cut a circle for the chick shape from the yellow construction paper,
2. Scrunch up a bunch of tissue paper squares into little balls.
3. Spread glue all over the construction paper cutout and put on tissue paper pieces.
4. Draw a pair of eyes and a beak from construction paper.
5. Add eyes, beak, and orange pipe cleaner for feet to the finished body.
6. Cut gift bag in half vertically, wrap around cardboard sheet and tape on the back.
7. Glue the chick on the gift bag.

Window Easter Egg Art: Materials: construction paper, clear contact paper, glue or glue stick, scissors, hole punch, suction cup hanger, and colored tissue torn into approx. 1″ pieces (in various colors).

1. Cut out an egg shape from the center of a piece of construction paper. Repeat, using the first sheet as a guide so the sheets are identical.
2. Cut out a piece of clear contact paper about an inch larger than the egg shape and attach it to one of the pieces of construction paper making an egg shaped window.
3. Attach tissue paper pieces to the sticky side of the egg shape until fully covered.
4. Cut another piece of contact paper a little larger than the egg shape and stick it on top of the tissue covered egg to seal everything.
5. Glue construction paper #2 to construction paper #1, lining up the eggs to match exactly.
6. Trim around egg leaving about 1/2 inch of the construction paper for a border.
7. Punch a hole at the top of the egg and hang in a window.

Easter Egg Fireflies (glow-in-the-dark critters): Materials: small flameless LED tea light, plastic Easter egg, pipe cleaners, white sticky labels, silver duct tape.

1. Put a small flameless LED tea light into a plastic egg. Use glue to keep the light in place.
2. With a thumbtack poke holes through the egg to insert the pipe cleaners.
3. Draw a pair of cute little bug eyes onto while sticky labels.
4. Finally, sculpt wings using duct tape.
5. Set the little critter outside and watch it glow!

Bubble Wrap Painted Easter Egg: Materials: paper, bubble wrap (the big ones works well), paint, a tray or plate for paint, brushes, painter’s tape , scissors and a sheet of construction paper and glue.

1. Cut out a large paper egg from the plain paper.
2. Attach the bubble wrap to a table. Popping the wrap is great for fine motor development.
3. Put paints on tray or plate. Add white to change the tint to make new colors.
4. Paint the bubble wrap with brush or hands.
5. Print the paper egg onto the painted bubble wrap.
6. Glue the egg to construction paper