Easter Baking
- by Lucie Howard
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- 01 Apr, 2020
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Easter Baking Ideas
Whilst in isolation you could try doing some baking, edible and non edible baking as well as snack time.
Edible: Easter nests
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200g Milk Chocolate
85g Shredded Wheat (Crushed)
Mini eggs (make sure you half them or use micro eggs to avoid choking)
Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of water, once melted add the crushed shredded wheat and mix together.
Spoon the chocolate wheat into cupcake cases and press down with the spoon to make the nest shape, add 3 mini egg halves or micro eggs to the top and let them chill in the fridge for 2 hours or until set.
Non Edible: Salt Dough Eggs
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1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1/2 cup water
Stir together all three ingredients until a dough forms. Kneading the dough a couple times can help make it smoother.
Roll it out to 1/4 inch thick and cut out egg shapes, use a straw to make a hole at the top so you can hang them.
Place the eggs on baking tray with greese proof paper on and bake for 2 hours ar 120 degrees celcius.
Once they are done and cooled you can get your little one to paint and decorate them.
Snack time: Rabbit Faces
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Corn Thins
Cream Cheese
Ham
Sultanas
Carrot
Cucumber
As pictured above.
Your little one can make their own rabbit face or you can help.
They have decorated eggs for the egg and spoon race and explored the sensory tray including eggs, chicks, feathers and more.
We have done an easter egg hunt with treats for the children to enjoy, they made cards and decorated our spring themed wall with eggs, sheep and hand print leaves.
They have also explored the field, looking for mini beasts in the bushes and listening to the sounds of nature.
We have made a home for a hedgehog in need and have been exploring textures making clay hedgehogs using sticks and buttons.
We have also had woodland animal shaped biscuits and sat on the field to eat them in the Autumnal surrounding.
Children and Parents have followed our procedures and prepared their children in starting back to preschool .
We had a lovely time seeing our Children again we look forward to more fun next week 😊
Make a dinosaur swamp (green paste) mixing water, flour + green food colouring. Add pebbles, twigs/driftwood + plastic dinosaurs.
Challenge children to:
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Order by size
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Count dinosaurs + one more/one less?
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Make enclosures for the dinosaurs
After speaking with some, it seems children have been enjoying arts + crafts as well as outdoors.
Here are some ideas to incorporate both of these.
🔵 🔺 To add to the learning experience you could discuss the shapes, colours and textures used, counting how many you have/what one more would be. 🔢 Encourage children to cut materials independently to strengthen their hand muscles ✂️ You could also experiment with colour mixing to find out which colours you could make 🌈 🎨
You can do lots of different things with rainbow colours and patterns.
You can make rainbow potions and make up some magical spells.
Colouring/Painting rainbows, you could use different materials and objects to make fun patterns and textures such as sponges, potato printing, everyday items such as pen lids, fork prongs or anythign you dont mind getting paint on.
Rainbow hands, put some paint in a tray or on a plate in rainbow colour order, get your little on to put their hand in the paint and then press down on paper or card.
Experiment with you own ideas to.
A simple idea but so much fun! You can cut the bottle in half and cut the sides to make the legs.
Using tissue paper or coloured paper cut into little squares you can let your little on stick the patchwork colours on the elephant.
Matching number and quantity , it can be done different ways depending on your child’s ability .
1 ...Once the jelly fish and stingers are cut and stuck
2...Write the numbers and ask your child to draw the dots on each stingers , help them if they need support .
3...You can pre draw the dots before you stick the stingers on them count with your child and support matching the quantity to numbers
4...Start with numbers 1-5 for younger children .
4...For much younger children use colour matching instead of numbers .
5...You can also extend the learning with colour sequencing the stingers .
6...Talk to your child about what they have made and get them to check they have matched up the number to the correct quantity .