Have some fun with these Easter games
Kids love games and even more so when there is chocolate involved! We bet it won't just be the kids wanting to take part! …
Easter
Egg-celent ways to celebrate Easter
Easter is usually seen as a great excuse to eat heaps of bunny- and egg-shaped chocolate, but your children don't have to get a sugar-high to enjoy this special holiday! Here are some great ideas for celebrating Easter the old-fashioned way.
Easter: explaining to children
My nearly four-year-old is busy studying the latest flyer from one of the big stores, so conveniently deposited into our mailbox ever other day. This one is seasonally filled with chocolate eggs. Big ones, small ones, hollow ones, marshmallow ones, …
Bake some traditional hot cross buns
Like Christmas pudding, Hot Cross Buns are one of those classic holiday foods. Get the kids to help you mix it up and knead the dough and you'll be munching these delicious, crusty buns in no time flat. Here's our best recipe: Ingredients for the …
10 things to do this Easter
There is more to Easter than chocolate! Burn off all the extra sugar with some of these ideas for Easter holiday family fun. 1. Decorate the house Nothing says special occasion like decorations! And trimming the house with sparkly flair …
Easter crafts: cute clothes peg chick
These peekaboo clothespin eggs are easy and incredibly cute! Added bonus - they're low-mess! Kids will love the surprise chick hiding 'inside' the egg. Thanks to onelittleproject for the photo 🐣 🐣 Start by cutting out a small rectangle of glitter …
Coloured eggs (a yummy lunchtime treat!)
Soft-boil eggs in the usual way, but before adding the eggs to the water, add a few drops of food coloring to the water. The eggshells will come out with a lovely marbled effect. You can even experiment by mixing colors to see what happens. Serve …
Easter recipe: Empty Tomb sweet bread rolls
These Empty Tomb Rolls are a lovely symbolic activity that kids can help out with, to celebrate Easter. They’re a soft, sweet roll with a marshmallow inside. You dip the marshmallow in melted butter and cinnamon sugar then wrap it in the dough. As …
Easy salt dough Easter decorations
Start a tradition of an Easter Tree — a branch on which to hang eggs, bunnies and colourful Easter-related things. You can make the ornaments out of salt dough, and if you use a spray paint or clear spray paint sealer the ornaments can be hung …
Easy Easter eggs, made from paper
A super quick and easy Easter craft kids of all ages can do. This is a great way to use up scraps of paper or fabric and good practice for those cutting and glueing skills! Put a protective cover over the table and away you go! …
Easter craft: easy yarn eggs
These Easter eggs made from flour-paste-hardened wool/yarn or string look so pretty piled into a bowl or basket, or even hung up. All you need is cornstarch, plain flour, water balloons, and different coloured wool or string. Choose if you want to …