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Bunny Biscuits

Make biscuits with your favorite recipe (even out of a can if you want.)

Cut into circle shaped biscuits.

Two biscuits make a bunny head. 1 makes the face. Cut the other one in half and flip each half over.

Stick to top face on a cookie sheet and bake according to directions.

Tell your children the story of the Goddess Eoster. She was thought to take the form of a white bunny and hop all through the countryside bringing eggs. She was the Goddess of fertility, which you may want to explain as being the one who helped people have new babies, grow crops, and new animals to be born.

Read "The Runnaway Bunny" by Margaret Wise Brown.

Have an egg relay race. Divide the family or group of children into teams. Give each person a spoon. Give each team a hard boiled egg. Make a starting line and a got to line. Say, "On your mark, get set, go!" Then each person in the front of the line holds out their spoon with the egg on it and goes as fast and carefully as they can to the "go to line" and back. They pass off the egg to the next person. The first team to have everyone go to the line and back with the egg wins.

Have an Egg Hunt. I like to hide plastic eggs with jellybeans inside, because animals (such as kitties,) won't bother them, and they won't spoil.

Make a white paper bag bunny. Find a white paper lunch bag. Cut ear shapes out of the top of the bag. Have the children decorate it to look like a bunny. Stuff it with newspaper. Staple or glue it shut. Or, they can leave it open and fill it with goodies instead.

Make bunny head bands. Take a strip of paper. Wrap it around your child's head and forehead. Staple it into a circle that fits. Have them draw, color, and cut out bunny ears. Tape or staple them to the head band. Then they can hop around.

Cut out a large egg shape out of paper. Have your child paint on it with watercolor paints. Let dry. Have them color over the entire egg really hard with a purple crayon. Give them toothpicks and let them scratch a design into the purple crayon. The watercolors will show through where ever they scratch.

Make a white paper plate bunny. Fold a paper plate in half. Staple it that way. Add a cotton ball tail on one end. Add paper ears on the other. Draw a face on the end with the ears.

Make a baby chick in an egg. Get two yellow pom poms. Cut one egg portion from an egg carton. Glue the pom poms, one on top of the other, into the egg carton piece. Cut a very small diamond shape out of orande paper. Fold in half. Glue onto the top pom pom for a beak. Glue on googly eyes.

Ostara Egg Shell Mosaics

Save all the egg shells from your Ostara eggs.

Put them in a strong plastic or paper bag.

Smash them by rolling a rolling pin over the bag.

Your child can glue down the colorful eggshells in any mosaic patten that they wish on sturdy paper or cardboard.

Homemade Ostara Egg Dye

1 Tablespoon Vinegar

You need these ingredients for EACH color you want for your eggs.

1/4 teaspoon food coloring

3/4 cup hot water

1 Tablespoon hot water

Mix theses ingrdients all together in a bowl for each color that you want. Leave the egg in until it reaches the desired shade.

You can also add one of the follwing ingredients to water and a bit of vinegar in a saucepan and heat to make your own colors: Onion skins, Blueberries, beets.

To make interesting designs on your Ostara eggs, try putting rubber bands on the eggs before dying. Use rubber bands of varying widths. Remove rubber bands after the dye is dry. You can even recolor egg after the bands are removed.

You can use masking tape or stickers on the egg before you dye it. Then remove tape after it is completely dry.

You can make tye-dye eggs. Take a 6 inch square of cotton cloth. Wet slightly and roll the egg in the cloth. Secure in place with a rubber band on each end of the egg so it looks like a piece of hard candy. Use a medicine dropper to put drops of dye on the cloth-covered egg. Use several different colors. Unwrap

Making Eggs into Animals

You will need the following things for this craft. Hard-boiled eggs, Egg dye or felt-tip pens, glue, construction paper, tissue paper, pipe cleaners, small stones, miniature marshmallows.

Owl: Color egg with black or brown felt pen. Glue on beak made of triangle of construction paper. Use two small stones for feet.

Pig: Dye egg pink. Glue on miniature marshmallow for snout. Make a curly tail and legs from a pipe cleaner (legs could be marshmallows if you prefer). Draw eyes with a felt pen.

Mouse: Glue on large pink ovals of construction paper for ears. Add a pipe cleaner tail; draw on whiskers and eyes with a felt pen.

Bird: Dye egg whatever color you want your bird to be. Glue on Construction paper head, beak and wings. You can either paint the wings on or make them out of constructions paper (or tissue paper). Draw eyes with felt pen.

Fish: Dye (or color egg shell witth paint or felt pen) whatever color you want your fishy to be. Cut eyes tail and fins from construction paper and glue on.

Make Some Cascarones

You will need the following things for this craft. Fresh eggs, herbs, confetti, or other lightweight item for filling, clear tape, colored pens or tissue paper and glue to decorate eggs with.

1. Empty egg shells by making a small hole in the larger end and a slightly larger hole in the small end (be sure to puncture the yolk). Be careful not to crack the rest of the egg). Then gently blow on the larger end of the egg to gently push out the egg's innards. (save these for scrambled eggs or omlettes)

2. Rinse out the eggs with cool water and let them dry overnight.

3. Close the bottom hole with a tiny piece of tape or a bit or glue.

4. Carefully fill the shells with herbs, confetti or other light-weight filling.

5. When full, seal the top hole with tape or glue.

6. Carefully decorate the outside of the egg.

7. On Ostara morning, catch your loved ones by surprise and break the egg over their head. As the filling rains down over your loved one and you, you are both showered with blessings, love, luck, and new life of the season.

Chicks in Nests

You will need the following things for this craft. Brown Yarn (cotton works the best), Three 1" Yellow Pom Poms, Orange Craft Foam, Six Wiggly Eyes, One Small Round Balloon, Liquid Starch, Tacky Glue, Scissors, Bowl, Newspapers

1. Blow up balloon to about 4". Tie off. Use a piece of yarn to hang it over your work area. (Working on the kitchen counter and hang the balloon from an upper cabinet knob works well.)

2. Place newspaper under balloon to catch drips.

3. Pour a cup of Liquid Starch into an old bowl. Cut several 4' pieces of yarn and place them into the starch. Make sure each strand is coated evenly with starch.

4. Wrap starched yarn pieces around balloon in all directions until balloon is covered to look like filigree. Cut and dip as many pieces of yarn as you need. There will be empty spots where the balloon shows through. Let dry overnight.

5. Cut down your yarn covered balloon. Pop the balloon and pull it out. Cut the yarn ball in half. You may want to set one half of the nest inside of the other for a fuller looking nest or use each half to make one nest.

6. Cut six small triangles for beaks. Glue two on to each pom pom to make it look like the chick's mouth is open. Glue on eyes.

7. Glue chicks in nest.

This craft idea came from http://makingfriends.com/chicks&nest.htm

Eggshell Mosaic Pictures

You will need the following things for this craft. broken eggshells from dyed eggs (seperated into colors), heavy paper or thin cardboard to make your picture on, white glue, clear lacquer spray (if desired).

1. Draw a picture or design on a piece of paper. You can draw anything you like, but the more detailed the picture, the more complicated your mosaic will be. (That's okay, though; grownups may want to experiment with something more elaborate while the little ones work on theirs.)

2. Decide what colors you want in which areas of your drawing by placing them there first. Once you know what you want where, carefully remove the shell pieces and set them aside.

3. Spread a thin layer of the glue over one section of your drawing at a time. Then place the colored shells carefully back into place. You can even sprinkle a little glitter over the area if you like.

4. As each section dries, you can do another section until your picture is finished.

5. If you want a shiny glaze on the completed project, use a clear spray lacquer to coat the entire mosaic.

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