Check Out These Super Fun Easter Egg Rockets!

I love the idea of using plastic Easter eggs for purposes other than hiding candy, and these Easter egg rockets from the STEM Laboratory are such a fun way to get a little more use out of your eggs.

She used little chick and bunny eggs from the dollar store, which have the benefit of feet to stand them upright. If you don’t have eggs like this you might want to try standing your egg up in an old egg carton just so it will shoot up and not sideways.

She says the egg tops don’t shoot too high, but remember to keep everyone’s eyes safely away from the egg while the experiment is in progress.

This looks like so much fun I’m definitely adding the ingredients to my shopping list.

[Photo via the STEM Laboratory.]

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Bunny Activities for Kids

I guess this isn’t exclusively a kid’s craft or learning activity (though cutting and folding are great for developing fine motor skills!) but I think kids would love having some of these printable holiday houses around the house or classroom to play with in the holiday season. Because they’re made of paper, they’re inexpensive to make, and while there is assembly involved the results are well worth the work.

If you have a cutting machine you can use the cut files from Delia Creates to make making your own paper village that much easier. She actually cut out all her buildings in different colors of card stock and used them to decorate a wreath, but you could also put them on the mantle or on a low table for kids to play with. Make a whole small world scene complete with fake snow, little characters and other elements, and kids are sure to start making their own stories to go with the setup.

This set of houses is printed and cut out using a craft knife. It’s meant to be an advent calendar, with each of the buildings numbered and you can stick a treat inside. But you could also just play with the buildings! You can get a free download of four buildings from Little House on the Corner, or head to the post to see where you can buy the whole set.

The Mavelo website isn’t in English, but their printable gingerbread house template is super cute to use as a gift box or to play with. If you need the instructions the website is in Polish but Google Translate seems to do a pretty good job.

Bora Illustrates has an adorable little house to print, cut and assemble featuring a cat, bird and gingerbread person. You could probably print it in black and white and have your kiddo color it, too.

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Stephanie says
April 5, 2017 at 12:12 pm
I had no success with this. I purchased the exact same eggs from Dollar Tree. Tried with 1-2 Alka Seltzer tablets more than 5 separate times with different eggs from the pack just in case one was faulty. None popped. Thank goodness I did it at home before distributing to the entire class to try. Would have been quite embarrassing and a let down for all.

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