Peter Cottontail

Two Peter Cottontails

In celebration of Spring (yet to make an appearance!), we brought out the plastic eggs and bunny ears this week.

Cooped in with a cold,  O and I made Peter Cottontails yesterday with three items: paper cut-outs, cottonballs & homemade glue.

I found a simple recipe for making your own glue http://www.minieco.co.uk/recipe-for-homemade-glue/

The recipe results in a copious amount of glue, so we reduced the measurements into a third of what was called for.

Homemade Glue

It worked surprisingly well, considering the fact that we used whole wheat flour and didn't really cook the mixture! The ingredients are all safe for consumption, so a little in the mouth is no biggie! Everything still ends up in O's mouth, so we try to be cautious about what materials we give her.

 Blobs

Big fan of blobbing it on....

Dab will do you

..and thought it really amusing to put down glue in one spot..and the cottonball in a different (unglued) spot!

It became a bit of an assembly line project, where O was in charge of the gluing and I was in charge of sticking the cottonballs on.

EXPAND ON COTTON EASTER PLAY

Math. You can vary the size or the rabbits to make a family and give a lesson in comparison...count cottonballs...or use the cottonballs as addition or subtraction tablets, so the child can concretely see how many are altogether. In our case, the gluing was as much as we could manage in a day!