​Fun Easter Holiday Activities for Kids'

​There’s plenty more ideas than Easter egg hunts to entertain the kids over the Easter holidays. We’ve put together some easy, affordable ideas to inspire you and give you some quality family time together away from digital distractions!

Easter Egg Collage
First, collect any old magazines, newspapers, and catalogues – the free food magazines you get from supermarkets are ideal! Draw a large egg shape on some paper, then get your children to cut or tear pictures and patterns from the magazines and create their own easter egg collage by sticking down inside the egg shape.

Easter Egg Potato Prints
Potato printing is a simple yet fun and affordable arts and crafts activity that is suitable for all age ranges. Cut a potato in half and carve different patterns into each half. Then dip each half into paint, or paint different colours directly onto the potato and print onto paper.

Salt Dough Decorations
Make some beautiful handmade Easter decorations out of salt dough. Once the dough is made, roll out and use cookie cutters to make different shapes - or go free style and cut shapes by hand using a knife! Place the shapes on an old newspaper or greaseproof paper and put them somewhere warm and dry overnight. 

When the shapes have dried out, they will be ready to paint and decorate. Children can be as creative as they like with this, using paints, glitter and cutting and sticking other materials on to decorate them. Once they are finished, you can hang them up around the house, or even give them to friends and relatives as Easter gifts! 

Here’s a recipe for making your own salt dough: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/how-make-salt-dough-recipe 

Write your own Easter Adventure
Time to flex your storytelling skills! Write an Easter Adventure Story using our Green Bean writing paper which you can download here: What exciting adventure could the friends get up to in Adventure Dales this Easter? Green Bean's missing egg? Rosie's hot cross bun special recipe?  Follow the bunny tracks with Mr Bear? These are some titles you and your little ones could use to make up your own story.

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We hope these activities have given you some great ideas to entertain the kids over Easter. What’s your go-to arts and crafts activity to do with children when it’s the school holidays? Let us know by connecting with us on  Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

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