Easter Basket and Easter Eggs
March 5th 2010 06:44
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Easter Baskets and Easter Eggs – (Cooking)
These activities are easy and always a winner!!
Notes for Tutor:
The following Easter Activities integrate with reading, cooking, maths, health, art and craft.
Lesson One:
Make the Easter basket – ready to carry the Easter Eggs.
Lesson Two:
Make the Easter Eggs.
Notes for Tutor: Lesson One:
Copying the basket on to heavier paper than 80 GSM will make a firmer basket.
Discuss with the children how they can successfully decorate the basket –
textas? pencils? paint? – using a pattern?
Encourage the children to use a pattern to colour in the handle.
The handle can be glued or stapled to the basket. Stapling is firmer.
The four corners will not be seen on the finished basket so it is suggested they are not decorated.
The bottom of the basket could remain uncoloured too.
Emphasise to the children that the basket needs to be cut out carefully if it is going to fit together properly.
Cut only on the lines.
Fold on the dotted lines.
The folds need to be ‘sharp’.
Modelling how to make the basket may be beneficial, depending on the maturity of the children.
When they have completed the basket give each child a rabbit face (below) to colour in, cut out and glue onto the front of the completed basket.
Glue a cotton wool ball onto the other end of the basket to represent the rabbit’s tail.
Line the basket with cotton wool ready for the Easter Eggs.
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Easter Egg Recipe - Notes for Tutor - page 4 of 4
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Notes for Tutor: Lesson Two:
If your situation allows it, divide the class into groups of no more than ten children.
Have an adult (teacher assistant or parent) to supervise the activity with each group.
You will need the ingredients from one recipe for each group.
Each child is given a copy of the recipe.
Discuss how recipes are written. How is it different to other forms of writing?
Read through the recipe with the children before you start the activity (this can be a whole class activity before you divide into groups)
Each child colours in the Easter Eggs on her/his recipe sheet (Art activity).
I suggest you do this at a different time slot, before the lesson. Children need time to colour the eggs properly.
Discuss with the children how Easter Egg wrapping paper is decorated – (stars, stripes, dots …).
Collecting some wrappings to show the children is a good idea.
The children should wash their hands before handling food (integration into the Health learning area).
Crushing the biscuits the night before is a GOOD idea.
The coconut and cocoa can be brought to school in their packaging for the children to observe.
Measuring with a cup measure and a dessertspoon is a practical activity which integrates into the maths learning area.
Each child in the group should be given a turn to tip, measure or mix.
Read each step of the Method as you go.
Put a generous piece of waxed lunch wrap on each child’s desk so she/he has a clean surface on which to work.
Before you divide the mixture among the children discuss what they have to do. Explain they are going to make Easter Eggs with the mixture. Each child has to decide how many eggs he/she is going to make with his/her mixture (maths). I used to suggest they make one egg for each member of their family – but didn’t insist. Some children decide to make lots of little eggs.
You will need lots of squares of foil so the children can wrap each egg. I cut them the night before. If a child makes lots of tiny eggs I line his/her basket with foil, put the eggs in and carefully fold the foil over them.
It’s a good idea to bring extra lunch wrap and foil to have on hand, just in case.
Make sure you have a can opener for the condensed milk
Safety First: Beware of the sharp edges.
The basket looks good if it is lined with cotton wool before putting the eggs into it.
Enjoy !!
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