Easter

We made  tissue paper "stained glass" crosses

First cut many different colors of tissue paper into small squares - any colors will do

lay a template for an outline of a cross on brown paper, trace and cut outside and inside the cross so have an "outline" in brown paper.

Lay the outline of the cross onto a piece of sticky clear contact paper.  You want the sticky side to be under the cross facing up at the child.

The child can then lay down the different colored tissue squares onto the sticky paper.

When they have filled up the paper, lay another piece of clear contact paper (sticky side down) on top of the tissue the put down, this will "seal" it.  Then cut around the cross and hang on a window. It makes a pretty Easter decoration.

Another fun craft for Easter is...

SHAVING CREAM EASTER EGGS:

First I layered a bunch of shaving cream on top of newspaper (you could also put on a pan, or piece of cardboard, but newspaper works fine).  Then I dropped different colors of food coloring all around the shaving cream.

The child uses a tip of a paint brush to swirl around the food coloring drops until they get a design they like.

Then they press down a piece of white construction paper onto the colored shaving cream gently and smooth their hands all over it to make sure each area of the paper is touching the shaving cream.

Then they carefully pull the paper off the shaving cream.  It comes out as alot of shaving cream stuck to the paper and doesn't look great, but then I take a popsicle stick and start at one end of the paper and scrape off all the shaving cream.  Underneath the shaving cream the colors have fused into the paper in a really neat way!

It was a great time for my preschoolers to practice their scissor skills and cut out egg shapes from the paper.  Some did it on their own, some needed me to draw the oval shape for them to cut on, and the younger ones needed some teacher help with the scissors.

Then they glued their "eggs" onto a paper with some fun easter grass below.