We had amazing weather for the Annual St Paul Easter Egg Hunt and Bake Sale! Always the Saturday before Easter Sunday, it's one of the best egg hunts around. The school and church grounds are divided into age groups. Here's one of my little guys getting ready before the hunt.

 

 

And here's one of my kiddos and his egg haul after the hunt! Each of these eggs have a candy inside and every child I saw had plenty of eggs. My guess is that the children will have great memories of fun times to cherish forever.   

 

 

 

We made "Wacky Baskets" for Easter centerpieces! All we used were empty margarine tubs, glue, and yarn. It really was one of the easiest crafts ever, and I think just any age group can make them.

They dried super fast, too. It only took about 6 hours total for them to be finished. They were nice and stiff, but not like a functioning basket that you could use for the egg hunt.

We filled them with Easter grass and a bunny made from puff balls. A perfect addition to the Easter table!

During Lent, the 4's group made beautiful crosses to hang in their bedrooms. The crosses were made with disassembled clothes pins glued to a piece of cardboard in the cross shape. They finished by painting their crosses with acrylic paints and attaching a hanger to the back. Some of the children put glitter paint over the top of the colored paint. They really turned out lovely. This is the kind of project they can have and keep forever.

This year we tried something new with the Leprechaun traps. I wanted to approach it with an innovation/design aspect in teams. We split the classroom into four groups, each with an adult advisor. I had a collection of materials like boxes, net produce bags, tubes, foil, pipe cleaners, etc. available. The object was to create a Leprechaun trap as a team, starting with conceptualizing it and then building it. I was very surprised to learn from the adults that each group went forward with their plan, building on each idea and not going back- all the way to completion. There was an abundance of enthusiasm! When they finished, each group explained their design to the whole class. Interestingly enough, the traps were all different from each other. We did set the traps, and even though we didn't catch a Leprechaun this year, I am positive we could have, the traps were that good.