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Holidays are a great time to create crafts with kids!! It makes it more exciting when you create a project around the theme of an upcoming holiday!  Bunny Craft is a fun styrofoam craft to make for easter with your children.   The Easter Bouquet is another fun craft you can create with your child.  In conjunction with the crafts it is great to read books about the upcoming holiday to reinforce the whole idea of the holiday and help your child feel involved and connected to the holiday.  The Night Before Easter is a fun book to read for Easter.

It’s Spring!! Hurray!! I already hear all the birds starting to sing and I love it!!  In honor of the warmer Spring weather we made a Bird house for our Fine Feathered Friends!!

While doing this craft, you might want to ready one of the following books with your child, depending on their age… Backyard Birdwatching for kids or Are you my mother?  The Backyard Birdwatching book is fun because you can ready about the birds and how you can attract them to your back yard and your bird house.   Are you my mother? is a great book about a young bird looking for his mother.

This craft is so much fun and you can enjoy it all spring and summer!

Supplies

• Wood, Paintable bird house- I found mine at the dollar store!! But craft stores like Michaels or AC Moore carry them too!
• Washable Paint
• Paint Brushes
• Clear Polyurethane

Steps

1. Get creative-Paint the birdhouse however you like!
2. Let it dry
3. Then (parents you will want to do this NOT your kids) once dry put a coat of polyurethane on it.
4. Let it dry
5. Then find a nice place outside to put it!

Enjoy your birdhouse!! I’d love to hear about your experience making this craft and to see pictures too!!

My absolute favorite book for Toddler Crafts is called The Toddler’s Busy Book by Trish Kuffner. It has 365 Games and Activities in it that are easy and fun to do!  There are crafts for every holiday.  It breaks the crafts down into great categories like : Rainy Day Play, Kids in the Kitchen, Water Play, Outdoor Adventures, Arts & Crafts and much more.  I highly recommend getting this book!!  It is a great resource, one I have used over and over!!  Below is one of the craft ideas for Easter that is in the book.

Easter Bouquet

Supplies you will need

• Paper Baking Cups
• Scissors
• Pipe Cleaners
• Glue
• Ribbon
• Glitter

Steps

1. Poke a hole through the bottom of the baking cups with a scissor or pen
2. Stick a pipe cleaner through the hole
3. Bend the top of the pipe cleaner over and glue it in place
4. Spread Glue over the paper baking cup and decorate it with glitter
5. Bunch together 4 or 5 flowers together, twisting the pipe cleaners together
6. Tie with a ribbon to make a spring time bouquet