EASTER EGGS

Prepare for the activities by discussing the symbolism of eggs at Easter. Your students can use
these decorated eggs as Easter presents, to decorate the Easter tree or they can use them for the
Easter Wind game.

Course: Primary
Material: an egg for a child, some pins, a bowl, paints, coloured paper, glue, scissors and felt-tip
pens
Make sure the eggs are at room temperature -otherwise it will be difficult to blow them. You can
also use a table tennis ball instead of the egg).
Instructions:
- Make a hole in both ends of the egg, one bigger than the other.
- Put your fingers over the holes and shake the eggs hard to break the yolk. Blow into the small
hole and empty the egg into a bowl. Wash the egg both inside and outside and let it dry.

- The eggshells are now ready to be decorated by the children.

- Once the children have blown their eggs they can now decorate them as they wish. Show them
some drawings and encourage them to create their own eggshell characters which can then be
used for conversation practise.

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EASTER WIND GAME

Course: Primary
Material: decorated eggshells or decorated table tennis ball and coloured sellotape.
Instructions:
- Ask the students to form two teams. Now stick two parallel lines of sellotape on the floor. Place
the egg or the tennis ball in the middle of the lines separating the children.
- Get the groups to form two queues opposite each other on either side of the tape. The first child
in each queue should kneel down behind the line with his/her hands behind his/her back.
- Ask each child in turn a question. If the answer is correct then he/she blows the egg (tennis ball)
towards the opposite line and goes to the back of the queue. The winning team is the first one to
blow the egg (tennis ball) over the other team's line.
- You can also fix either a time limit or a total amount of lines to be scored.

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 EASTER CARDS
Making Easter cards is fun for the children and develops their manual skills. Encourage the children
to make their own cards and then to give them to their friends or relatives for Easter. Traditionally
used decorations are bunnies, hares, chicks and flowers and the colours are usually pastel.

Course: Primary
Material: pastel-coloured paper or card, scissors, glue and crayons. You can use extra material as
cotton wool for a bunny tail, etc.
Instructions:
- Ask your students to choose a piece of coloured paper or card and fold it over. Ask them to draw
a traditional Easter picture (see list above) on one side.
- Ask them to cut around the outline.
- Help students to decorate their drawings as they wish, colouring them.

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CRESS EGGS

Course: Primary
Material: some empty eggshells, coloured card, felt-tip pens, cotton wool and cress seeds.
Instructions:
- Paint funny faces on the eggshells.
- Cut the top of the eggshell.
- Stick the eggs onto a coloured card so they stand up.
- Put some cotton wool inside the shells and wet it throughly.
- Put cress seeds into the eggshells.
- In three or four fays's time the egss will have cress hair!

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