Easter Holiday Special 23 March – 07 April 2024
Here at STAG Mumbler, we are always keen to hear your recommendations of things for our lovely local families to do during the holidays. If you have any suggestions, or you’re running a local event or activity, simply drop us an email telling us all about it at stag@mumbler.co.uk
Get the eggs at the ready and enjoy some eggcellent fun with our great list of things to do at Easter.
1. The Classic Egg & Spoon Race 🐣If you really want to be brave and try it with fresh or boiled eggs then feel free but I like using a ball with a normal dessert spoon. Depending on the age of your children you can choose the size of the ball to make it fair for the little ones. To make it a bit harder for the big ones you can also get them to hop on one leg between the start and finish line!
We all know that bunnies like carrots! Hide lots of carrots around your garden or house, as well as an extra special golden carrot! You need to bring as many carrots as possible back to the bunny’s Easter basket for the bunny to have a nice lunch! The winner is the one to find the golden carrot and / or the most carrots!
A take on the traditional sack race. Don’t worry if you don’t have a hessian sack, just use a pillow case!
Pop two part fillable Easter eggs into an egg box. Number them up and on the week leading up to Easter, open one each day. Put a small gift, piece of a jigsaw puzzle or chocolate inside each one!
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This one takes a little more preparation! Paint a bunny face onto a cardboard box and at the bottom cut a hole for its mouth. Roll small balls or half blown balloons into the bunny’s mouth
Everyone has a bunny soft toy or a Spring animal in their soft toy collection. Bunny can join the adult to take turns to either hide or find the children!
You can print a template of the Mumbler Pin the Tail on the Bunny here. The bunny’s tail could be some cotton wool, scrunched up tissue paper or a fluffy pom pom from the craft box. Cover the eyes of the person trying to stick the tail on the bunny!
Run around the house to find objects that spell out ‘Easter Egg’ or the letter ‘E’.
A take on noughts and crosses. Draw and cut out counters of bunnies and eggs and divide between each player.
10. Easter Egg Clue Hunt 🐣Hide two part fillable Easter eggs around your house and / or garden. Each egg will have a clue that will lead you to the next egg and we usually have the final egg as a chocolate Easter Egg!
Some example clues … Where do we put dirty clothes?, Your toy trains are kept in this place, You put these on your feet to go outside, Where are your outdoor toys kept? You can use our Easter Egg Hunt Clues HERE
🐣🐣🐣We hope you have fun this Easter! For more ideas visit our Easter Holiday Special 🐣🐣🐣
With special thanks to our wonderful sister site, York Mumbler, for this super blog.
Easter can be a super time for getting the whole family involved in fun, Easter crafts and egg hunting adventures. Everyone celebrates differently and don’t put pressure on yourself, whatever you get up to, we hope you have a super time.
Top 5 Favourite Easter Craft Ideas
1. An Easter Wreath by theresourcefulmama.com
2. Easter bookmarks by the wonderfully talented Cori at Let’s make stuff
3. Easter Bunny Headband by I Heart Crafty Things It’s a wonderful site, we use it all the time.
4. Sock Bunnies by A Pumpkin and a Princess
5. Bunny Bunting by Paper Mill Direct
10 Easter Egg Hunt Hiding Clues as used at STAG HQ
1. With this clue, you’ll have to follow your nose, where does mummy put all your stinky clothes?
2. In this place, daddy puts his toes, take a big breathe though and cover your nose!
3. In this place you’ll find hundreds of pages, reading them all would take you ages!
4. In this place it’s very cold, “Close the door properly!!” you’re always being told
5. In this place, it’s very wet, it’s where you and the duckies very first met
6. In this place we’re supposed to rub our feet, open the door, who will you meet?
7. Where do you go when it’s time for sleep? Take a look there, there’s some treats to keep
8. You put this on when you’re feeling cold ‘Fasten it up properly” you’re always being told
9. It’s where we snuggle, read books and watch tv, under all mummy’s cushions, quick now go and see.
10. This is where you eat you’re dinner, find the hidden clue and you’re the winner!
We are hopping into March excited about our Easter plans! As we run a library we thought it would be great to do a slightly different Easter Hunt…so we are hosting “The Sherburn Easter Book Hunt”!!!
Join us for the launch on Saturday 16th March, 10-11.30am – there will be family friendly crafts, decorations and a visit from the Easter Bunny!
Copies of children’s Easter books will be in the windows of businesses all around the town from the 16th March – 7th April. We will be publishing the hunt map along with a quiz on our social media and printed copies will be available from the library
Completed quiz sheets can be dropped off at the library during opening hours or answers can be emailed to us
Due to donated prizes and the support of local businesses it is a FREE event.
Prizes include:
1st Prize – Family tickets for “Eureka” National Children’s Museum (worth up to £84)
2nd Prize – £20 book token
3rd Prize – Easter Treats
Special thanks to Thornton Jones Solicitors for kindly funding our Easter Hunt and The Maltings Tearooms for helping us contact the Easter Bunny to invite them to the launch!
1. Mud Pies
Oh, what fun!! I would recommend an apron as we had to strip Mini Mumbler’s clothes off as he was covered in mud!!
Mix up your mud mixture and then divide onto plates and decorate your pie with items from around the garden. We had toppings of petals, gravel and leaves!
2. Leaf Printing
Whilst on a walk find some colourful flowers and some juicy leaves. Grab a bit of thin plain cloth and a rubber mallet. Fold the cloth in half and place the flowers and leaves inside the folded cloth. Let your kids hit the cloth with the rubber mallet and a beautiful picture will appear!
3. Den Building
A great project for local woods! You may be lucky enough for dens to already have been made and then you can add on your dead twigs and sticks to make the den bigger. If not, start by making a tipi formation against a low lying branch and keep adding! It will keep the kids entertained for hours!
4. Build a Bug House
This is quite an elaborate bug house built by some friends during lockdown which I was amazed at, but if you’re looking for something a bit easier and more child friendly, use a plant pot and then fill with cut grass, twigs, pieces of bamboo, acorns or pine cones etc and build it up until it is full before placing in the garden for bugs to enjoy!!
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5. Paint with Water
This is a great one to keep toddlers occupied! We used to play paint the garage door with different sized paint brushes. He would love to spray the garage door too!! To add more colour into this activity, get the chalks out and make some marks on the ground before practising cleaning with the water and paint brushes!!
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6. Leaf Art
Let’s see all the different coloured leaves that we can find in the garden and then using cutting skills create a picture! If you have a hole punch or zig zag scissors this is a fun way to make different shapes!
Add paint to the picture to create different animals such as hedgehogs!
7. Race Homemade Boats
We had great fun making boats out of lolly pop sticks and empty margarine containers. We made a raft with a sail and then a paddle steamer with a propeller which was a piece of plastic attached to an elastic band which we wound up. We had a race to see which was the fastest! We then made another paddle boat and raced both of them!
8. Make a Daisy Chain
I had so much fun showing my little boy how to make a daisy chain! Whether it is a bracelet, necklace or crown he kept running around the park to find daisies whilst I sat and threaded them!
9. Campfire Cooking
When we attended Forest School this was my little boys favourite activity and I was so impressed that he quickly learnt about the safety aspects and what they could and couldn’t do! Try toasting marshmallows, crumpets, make mini pizzas or popcorn!
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10. Petal Perfume
The best place for us is to take a trip to Nanna’s beautiful garden and collect some petals in a basket! Once home grind them up with a little water, releasing the scent and colour. Add a little more water to create the perfume and then bottle in a small glass jar!
With special thanks to our sister site, Wakefield Mumbler, for this super blog.
Keeping up with our little bundles of energy can be a struggle so we thought it’d be helpful to put together a list of fun things you can do at home to keep toddlers busy. Here are a few things we looked for:
