Showing posts with label Easter Crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter Crafts. Show all posts

31.3.10

Finding Online Easter Coloring Projects

Easter is often a time of burgeoning color, as spring begins to manifest and even the sky grows brighter. This is why Easter coloring pictures just seem to fit so naturally into activities for kids at this time of year.

There are a great many crafts that children can do as they prepare for the celebration, including making baskets or displays or even helping with the baking of seasonal treats. But adding bright colors to Easter pictures and other decorations remains a very popular option. It can be as easy or as complex as the child's age and imagination dictate.

For other Easter graphics, though, there are a great many sites that offer a multitude of different pages to download. For example, the www.coloring.ws website has what seems to be hundreds of pages for coloring, conveniently separated into categories such as Bunnies, Chicks and Ducklings, Eggs, Kids, Lambs, and Religious Pictures.

On some websites, parents can pay for coloring kits that will be mailed rather than downloaded. Of course, for parents who want their children's Easter coloring to be mainly confined to spiritual themes, there are explicitly religious sites that provide plenty of pictorial downloads for this purpose.

There are a great many available options online for Easter coloring projects, and they can be used in the classroom as well as at home.

For example, the www.eslflashcards.com website, which supplies graphics for English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction, provides Easter clipart as flash cards, both for coloring and for learning the vocabulary of the season.

Kids who want to color some bright pictures for Easter and the coming of spring will never run out of material.

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29.3.10

Keeping Children Entertained With Easter Crafts

For most people, Easter is a happy, hopeful time, and Easter crafts for kids tend to reflect that bright, fresh feeling.

It's true that for many Christians, the season also carries a more solemn message of sin, death, and redemption, but even in that case the final result is an attitude of rejoicing as churches celebrate the resurrection of Christ.

The Easter message of hope and new life, combined with the fun of other symbols like flowers, the Easter bunny and children's crafts make this celebration very upbeat.

In addition to coloring, kids love Easter crafts where they can make things. As well as creating little baskets, cards or decorations from raw materials, often they enjoy helping to bake special Easter treats.

Whether it's making and decorating sugar cookies with mom, or helping to bake hot cross buns, children can really get into the spirit of things. Christian holidays often provide the chance for seasonal cooking with special meanings.

One must never forget the egg hunt when planning Easter crafts for the kids. The children really enjoy decorating their own eggs, whether the parents provide designs for them or family members create their own designs.

In Christian families, often the eggs are used as an object lesson about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, where the shell represents the tomb and the inside of the egg signifies the new life.

Egg decorating and other crafts can make Easter a very bright, special time for kids.

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