Easy Easter Crafts For Preschool

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Easy Easter crafts make preschool so much more fun. Hand print chicks, popcorn lambs and a unique paper plate bunny all get the big thumbs up.

Easy Easter Crafts 1 - Small Hand Print Chicks

Materials:

White paper A4
Paint- yellow and orange
Black fibre tip pen or marker
Soap
Water
Newspaper

Directions:

Pour ready made yellow paint into a wide container that has sides. Ready mix some orange paint in a smaller container.

Place newspaper on the floor and then position both the containers with paint next to the white paper and finally a tub of soapy water.

Each child is to place their hand into the yellow paint and gently press their hand in the middle of the white paper, leaving a hand print. Make sure that their fingers are closed together.

The same child, needs to place their finger of the other hand into orange paint and make a fingerprint in the middle of the hand print. This will be the chicks beak.

Wash and dry hands

Allow time for the paint to dry.

Using the black marker or fibre-tip pens, add a couple of eyes, feet and wings.

Easy Easter Crafts 2 - Popcorn Lamb Hand Print Craft

Materials:

Cardboard
Fibre tip pens or marker
Cooled popped popcorn
Pair of scissors
Glue stick
Pencil

Directions:

Let each child trace their friends hand using a pencil on a clean piece of card. Have each child open their fingers far apart from each other.

Using a pair of scissors, cut out the shape of the hand.

On the thumb area, they can draw a lambs face, with eyes, a nose and mouth.

Using a black fibre-tip pen, color the ends of each finger except the thumb, almost where the nail would be. These will be the lambs hooves.

Using the glue stick, cover only the palm of the hand with glue. Add the pop corn to the glued area.

The cute easy Easter crafts popcorn lamb is now complete.

Easy Easter Crafts 3 - Paper Plate Bunny

Materials:

Ordinary white paper plate
White paper A4
Paint - pink
Wiggly eyes
Stapler
Glue stick
Black Chenille Stems/pipe cleaners
Large pink pom pom
Black fibre tip pen / marker

Directions:

Draw two big bunny ears on the white paper, with a smaller inner ear. Have this ready before class.

Have the kids cut out the bunny ears and paint the inner ear pink. Once dried, staple the ears to the back of the top part of the paper plate. Teacher assistance is needed for this task.

Glue the wiggly eyes below the ears and next to each other.

Stick a big pink pom pom in the middle of the paper plate for a nose.

Glue the Chenille Stems on either side of the nose as whiskers.

Draw a mouth - or a big smile and your done with your easy Easter crafts.

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Is Home Preschool For You?

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Many parents are opting for a home preschool program. There are many reasons to home school your child but it is important to follow some basic guidelines to have success.

Sure, you love your children unconditionally, but is it in your disposition to patiently repeat the days of the week umpteen times before he gets it? Some parents decide to home school their preschoolers for various reasons such as transportation issues, cost if the preschool is not free, more than one child whose timings clash and so on. However, before you transform your kitchen table in to a school, here are a few questions you should ask yourself. Are you as patient as a professional teacher? Are you choosing to home school preschool for your own convenience or is it out of necessity? The basics, such as sensory stimulus, recognition of shape and color, numbers, adding, subtracting, matching, and predicting, can still be taught though normal day to day life chores.
The first impression stays long with children, and the way they perceive learning in their preschool days would impact their outlook and receptiveness to learning throughout their lives. So it is very important to have a lesson plan and activity curriculum. Children need a routine and consistency.

Children look forward to learning when it is presented in a fun and exciting way. Especially in the preschool years. It is important to hold their attention to ensure that they are absorbing most or all of the new knowledge that is being offered to them. An alphabet a week is a popular way of teaching a single letter of the alphabet in different ways.Repetition of the same letter repeated throughout the week in songs, stories and activities makes it easier for the child to grasp. Everyone agrees that children love learning through activities.

Children are easy to please, you just have to make sure that you are satisfied with the overall arrangement of things. Socialization is a very important part of the learning years so make sure your decision to home preschool your child includes appropriate activities with other children. Arrange parties and field trips with like minded parents. You may even want to have a special "field trip" day once a week that includes other children.

It is important to hold the attention of the preschoolers to ensure that they are absorbing most or all of the new knowledge that is being offered to them. It is easy for them to drift a little when at home in their own environment. You may want to consider making a part of a room a classroom that is just for school time. This way it is special, when the child is there is will be different than just being at home.

If home preschool is your choice, keep looking for fresh ideas so it is always exciting and your child will be eager for the special time with you.

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Cute Preschool Easter Chick Crafts

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These Easter chick crafts are all designed for little ones. They are easy to do and loads of fun. Let them try their hand at a cute fingerprint Easter chick, turn a paper plate into a chick and make a yellow footprint chick.

Easter Chick Crafts 1 - Cute Fingerprint Easter Chick

Supplies:
Paint - Yellow
Warm soapy water
Orange and Blue Fibre-tip pens or marker
Piece of A4 blank paper
Newspaper

Directions:
To help the process run smoothly, mix the yellow paint before hand.

Each preschoolers has a turn to place their thumb or finger in the premixed yellow paint. With a help of a teacher, place the child's finger print gently onto the piece of white paper.

Have a basin full of warm soapy water, for the kids to wash their hands in, while they wait for the paint to dry.

Once dried, let them draw the chicks beak and eyes using an orange and blue colored marker. Now let the children draw orange x or crosses as the chicks feet at the bottom of the fingerprint. Now let them draw a sun, flowers on their paper and remember to add their names.

Easter Chick Crafts 2 - Easter Chick Paper Plate Craft

Materials:
Plain white paper plate
Orange paper
Two googly eyes
Paint- yellow
Feathers - yellow
Glue

Directions:
Paint both sides of the paper plate in yellow paint. Allow time to dry. Once completely dry, you need to fold the paper plate in half. Place the paper plate on its curved side.

Using the googly eyes, paste one on each side of the folded plate. Now draw and cut out a triangle on the orange paper. Glue the triangle across the fold of the paper plate, just above the eyes. This is the chicks beak. Place a blob of glue and stick the feathers on either side of the body. Preferably in the middle of the paper plate.

Easter Chick Crafts 3 - Yellow Foot Chick

Materials:
Paint- yellow
White paper A4
Fibre-tip pens / orange markers
warm soapy water
Newspaper

Directions:
Place the ready mixed yellow paint inside a wise dish, with sides. This dish needs to be big enough for a child's foot. Lay down newspaper under the yellow paint dish as well as the white A4 paper.

The children need to be barefoot. Each child is to place one of their feet into the yellow paint and step directly onto the white paper. Tip: Have the paint, paper and tub of warm soapy water in a line, one after the other. This helps minimize the mess.

Once the child has left a yellow footprint on the paper, have them step into the soapy water and wash the paint off their foot. Dry. Once the paint is dry, turn the paper around until the heel faces to the top, this will be the chicks head.

Using fibre-tip pens / markers add eyes and a beak to the chick. The kids can embellish their work by adding grass, a sun, clouds etc. Do not forget their name.

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Fundraising For Your Preschool Or Daycare Center

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Most day cares are non-profit organizations that must operate within a tight budget that covers the costs of facilities, staff and all of the equipment and materials for operating a quality and stimulating environment for children. It's a balancing act with little room for extras for the center or it's staff.

One way to offset the cost of extra curriculum, supplies or staff bonus programs is through fundraising. Our moms have successfully raised funds for our daycare centers, enabling them bring in additional music, art and science events, animal encounters, host special celebration days - like Hawaiian Luaus, purchase sun shades for the playground and fund the staff bonus pool.

Listed below are fundraising programs that have been successfully implemented that you can take, adapt and use at your center:

Garage Sales. Gather your family's extras and have a group garage sale to benefit your daycare center. Post signs at school to have other families bring their donations in a few weeks before the sale so you can have time to price and organize the items.

Auction. Have an informal auction of donated goods and services in your daycare's lobby with write-in bids. You can also help organize an auction event, complete with tickets that must be purchased to attend. The event usually has catering, a bar, entertainment and live auction and those costs must be factored into the budget.

Donations. Ask the merchants your frequent regularly if they have goods or services they can donate to the center. Describe the center, what you are raising funds for and explain the donation is tax deductible. Many requests will be positively received. We have found that we've received the best response when collecting donations in the spring, summer and early fall so we're not competing with other donation requests around the holidays. These donations are then incorporated into the school auctions.

Open Ebay Store. Large scale auction events are really only practical one or two times a year for daycare centers because of the costs involved. Consider having a committee that solicits donations year long and sells them in an open market, such as Ebay. It expands your fundraising circle from the immediate circle to a global reach.

Matching Gifts. Remind parents that many corporations have matching gifts programs for donations to non-profit organizations and daycare centers usually qualify. Under this benefit, the corporation may match your cash donation by 50 to 100%.

Artwork By Children. Work with the classroom teachers to create artwork that can be displayed a gallery and sold to parents. Creative projects made by the children or that feature a child's picture make wonderful gifts for family and friends and sell well when priced appropriately.

Recognition. Parents can memorize their children by purchasing an engraved plaque for a wall, a stamped brick for a walkway or a large piece of equipment for the playground. Think about how large non-profit organizations recognize their large donors and adapt it to your environment. Have an area in your newsletter that regularly recognizes contributions from the parents of the center, whether they be monetary, time or goods and services.

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