Tiger and Zebra Group at Cashmore Early Years Centre have had the most wonderful few weeks, celebrating both Eid and Easter with a brilliant range of creative and hands-on activities!
For Eid, the children have been busy creating glittery classroom decorations using moon and star paper, and making saltdough stars by rolling, cutting and pressing in sparkly gems. They have also been designing their own henna patterns on hand templates, thinking carefully about lines, shapes and colours, and arranging loose parts onto cardboard stars with a real eye for texture, pattern and size. The beautiful book Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns has been at the heart of it all, with the children learning key words including celebration, gift, Ramadan, Eid, mosque and henna.
Easter has been equally exciting! The children have been creating Easter egg designs with tissue paper and glue, colouring intricate egg templates, and making and painting their very own saltdough Easter eggs. Chocolate nests made a very welcome appearance too, with the children crushing cereal and mixing it with melted chocolate.
The highlight of the Easter celebrations though has to be the egg hunt. Each group wrote messages, placed them inside plastic eggs and hid them around the classroom for the other group to find. All sixteen eggs were discovered, including one very cleverly hidden inside a welly boot! The children have also been enjoying We’re Going on an Egg Hunt, learning all about what an Easter egg hunt is and picking up key words like celebration, hunt, search, duckling, lamb and Easter.
