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How to blow eggs for Easter decorations.
Ever wanted to know how to blow eggs for making Easter decorations? It’s so easy and fun to do! ***step by step instructions below***. What you need: eggs, thumb tacks, cocktail sticks, bowl, straws (optional). What you do: gently but firmly push the tack/pin through the pointy end of the egg. now push the tack through the other end of the egg. take a cocktail stick and carefully insert it through one of the holes. swirl the stick around in order to break up the yolk. the cocktail stick also helps to make the holes a little bigger and easier for the yolk and white to be removed. place your…
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2 Super Easy and Quick Last Minute Easter Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Happy Easter! This morning Doodles and Oodles were dying to get outside to play but couldn’t as Mr G is cutting all the hedges with a supersized power tool of some description. So for health and safety reasons and in order to maintain my sanity while struggling to keep two very outdoorsy children indoors I suggested we have some more Easter fun. You can see what other Easter fun we have been having here, here and here !!!!! Glittery Egg Decorations: What you need: Polystyrene eggs PVA Glue Glitter Pins Ribbon I bought polystyrene eggs last Easter and we had a few left over so Oodles had great fun rolling…
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10 Fantastic Spring/Easter Books
There are so many beautiful children’s books with Spring themes available, we have so many of them I wasn’t sure where to start with this post. With the help of Oodles and Doodles, I have put together out top 10 Spring themed books! 1. The Velveteen Rabbit – not strictly about Spring but a gorgeous, timeless story . 2. That’s Not My Bunny – one of Oodles’ current bedtime touchy-feely favourites. 3. Spot’s First Easter – a fun, colourful, simple, lift-the-flap, Easter egg hunt book. 4. Emma’s Lamb – in true Kim Lewis style, a stunningly beautiful book about life on the farm in Spring time 5. Little Tail –…
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Easter Art for Toddlers and Preschoolers
We finally got around to starting our Easter artwork today. I’m sure that we will manage a few more seasonal projects over the next week or so. Today we have 2 to share with you. Potato-print Easter Chicks: These were so much fun to do.. Doodles and Oodles love printing so there was great excitement when I handed them potatoes and Lego/Duplo to print with today. What do you need? Potatoes, cut in half and allowed to dry for a couple of hours Lego or Duplo blocks Paint Paper Instructions: Have fun! We used the bricks to create our grass Our chicks were made by printing with the potatoes. We…
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Decorating for Easter
I have spent most of today, Sunday, adding some of our Easter decorations to our home. We are having a get together of old friends next Saturday so I wanted to have the decorations up in time for this. Here are a few pictures of the Easter touches we have added to our home. Hope you like them. Enjoy! Ciara x
