Happy Easter with love from MooBaaKids!

After Christmas and birthdays, Easter has to be the most egg-cellent (sorry, I just can’t help it!) time of the year for toddlers. There are so many egg-citing events on too this year, with an Easter Egg Trail at Bolton Abbey, more Easter Egg Trails plus crafty activities at Thorpe Perrow and East Riddlesden Hall and a full crafty Easter weekend at Harewood House. If your little ones are fans of little animals, you can feed the Easter lambs at Malham Tarn, visit the new lambs and other animals at Hesketh Farm Park or try out Thornton Hall Farm’s Great Easter Fun Day, which promises much fun by combining baby animals with family shows, circus workshops and a free Easter egg for every child. 

Sheep Egg featured on
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To continue the eggy animal theme at home you can get cracking (that’s the last one I promise) creating your own farmyard of eggy animals. I love these Sheep Egg, Egg Bunny, Pig Egg and Purple Cow Egg ideas.


If that seems too fiddly for tiny fingers, there’s always a good old spot of hard-boiled egg painting. You can even start off with coloured eggs by dying them first by adding food colouring to the boiling water. For smaller toddlers putting the eggs back in the box helps them to hold the eggs still to paint them, they will have just as much fun painting the box itself aswell!

Coloured Eggs
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Once the paint has been well and truly dawbed on the eggs and has dried off, you can’t beat a traditional egg hunt. If you don’t have a garden the kids can still do their hunting, just in the house instead. Remember to place the eggs well within a small person’s eyeline – toddlers like to look at the floor when searching and so eggs perched even a tiny bit higher than their line of sight tend to remain unseen forever!


The beauty of toddlers means that you don’t need to buy a basket to collect the eggs; my little ones much prefer to use their doll’s prams and their mini plastic shopping trolley for the job. Once the eggs have all been collected, they can try running around with an egg and spoon as future practice for primary school egg and spoon races! Large plastic cooking spoons tend to work best for this job as there’s more room for the egg to roll around before it inevitably wobbles off.

Paper Plate Easter Hat
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If you would prefer to have an egg hunt that is easy to re-use, (and that doesn’t go rotten!), why not use up some scrap paper to paint as many eggs as you need, and decorate them together with your toddler. You can then cut them out and stick them to card to make them sturdy (or laminate them if you want to use them outside too) and get hiding! They’ll fit easily into a large envelope for storage, ready for hiding around the house any time you want to get those little legs running around on a rainy day. If your toddler is young enough, they won’t notice you stealing the pictures back out of their basket and re-hiding them whilst they are still searching to make the game last longer!


If you don’t have any straw hats lying around your house, then making an Easter crown is a great quick and free (and unisex!) alternative to Easter bonnet decorating, with the added bonus of giving you the ability to make it the right size for your toddler’s little head. Cut a zig-zag that will make the top of the crown down one length of a sheet of card or paper, decorate one side of the card with your toddler, fit it to his or her head decorated side outwards and staple the ends together where appropriate (making sure to remove the crown from your little ones head before stapling of course!). Believe it or not, paper plates also make fantastic instant hats or crowns that you can fit to the smallest of heads; click here for some great inspirational ideas.

Handprint Sheep Card
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Everyone loves a home-made card from a toddler, and Easter is a great opportunity to bring a smile to someone’s face with a card made with love. These egg-shaped cards are perfect for toddlers to decorate and even the youngest toddlers can make their mark with cards like these finger and footprint and handprint ideas.


Making Easter treats at home can be as easy as a chocolate cornflake (or shredded wheat for a more authentic look) cake ‘nest’ topped with mini eggs like these, or as intricate as these lovely sheep and bunny lollypops. If you would prefer to make healthy treat, these carrot patches look great fun.


Whatever you choose to do this Easter, I hope you have a fantastic time doing it!


Happy Easter! x