Tuesday 12 April 2011

Don’t Put Your All Eggs In One Basket!

A busy day in school, with an Easter focus – including our special Easter Assembly, and all afternoon, I did crafts with year 4. The class made Easter cards and Easter baskets. On Friday they will take the baskets home – with a small chocolate egg inside [thank you Aldi!] Here is a collage of pictures of their efforts…

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The little baskets were incredibly easy – you can make two from one sheet of A4 photocopy card. I modified this idea

To get the ‘straw’ to go inside the baskets and make a nest for the egg, I shredded some paper in an office strip-shredder, and they scrunched up half a dozen strips.

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To make the cards, the children wove a piece of A6 sized paper with coloured strips of paper – then stuck it inside a folded A4 sheet from which they had cut an egg shaped aperture.

I’d printed off lots of ‘Happy Easter’ greetings for them to stick outside and inside their cards.

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These two activities worked really well with a huge class of 8 year olds – and we all enjoyed ourselves.

Oh, and before I forget, thank you everyone for your kind birthday wishes!

2 comments:

  1. Fab-u-lous as people seem to say nowadays.

    Fortunate children to have someone patient to do this craft with them.

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  2. Aw.....brings back lots of happy memories from me at primary school. We always made those little baskets at Easter.

    That was far too many years ago!!

    Sue xx

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