Nocturnal Nap Time

Materials

none

Instructions

1. Tell the children they will be making a variety of springtime crafts! Start by
holding the egg over a bowl and poking a hole in the top and bottom of the
egg with a needle. Blow the egg out from the shell into the bowl. Rinse the
shells and dry them. This is an adult step, because of food allergy and food
poisoning precautions.
2. Place long white paper on the floor for children to make "bunny footprints."
Help each child dip one foot into a pan of purple paint and then make a
footprint on the paper.
3. Provide construction paper ears for children to glue above the toes of their
footprints. Encourage the children to draw eyes, nose, and whiskers on their
footprints with crayons.
4. Make a bunny windsock by pre-cutting paper bunnies. Help the children glue
colored crepe paper strips to the bottom of the bunny's head as shown.
Attach string and hang in the spring wind!
5. Paint the empty, clean eggshells. The children should try their best to be
gentle with the shells. Put out paintbrushes and tins of pastel-colored paints
and encourage the children to spatter the paint onto the eggs by flicking the
toothbrush bristles with their fingers. They can use as many colors as they like!
6. After they have finished, use a glue gun to attach yarn to the eggs as shown
(adult only).