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Easter Egg Hunt Updated 3/6/08. By Ann Zeise A virtual Easter Egg Hunt just for the kids is over for Easter 2008. Come back next year. I have hidden 26 Easter Eggs throughout the Explorations 4 Kids section of this site. Each one has a clue to the page that has another egg. There are no eggs in the grown ups' sections of this site. Great Gifts for Your Little Bunnies at Back To Basics Toys! The day after Easter all the clues will be on this page, in case you haven't found all 26 by then. The eggs look sort of like this: or this I got the graphics from the Easter Clipart pages on the Graphics Design site. The photo above is my grandson, Gavin. at 9 months old. His egg doesn't count. You could use this as a lesson on how to "grab" clipart from the web as you go around and collect the eggs. On a Mac, click and hold on the graphic for a few seconds. A new little window pops up. Select "Download Image to Disk," and chose a folder in which to put your eggs. With Windows, I believe you right click. The popup window may say something slightly different, but look for a phrase that seems to let you save the image to your hard drive. Practice on these two eggs here. If you keep the eggs and decide to use them for your own online project, do give the Graphics Design page a reciprocal link. The eggs will be removed shortly after Easter each year and replaced a week or two before Easter in years to come. Here's your first clue: Don't rain on my Easter Parade! Look through the subject headings in Explorations 4 Kids and take a guess which page might have links about rain or parades. The last two eggs (#25 and #26) are really hard to find! They are hidden on links within Explorations' pages as "extras" on those pages. Tips Keep the Explorations 4 Kids page up and available for use. Use the search engine at the top of each page. Put in a keyword and see if it helps you locate a page with that word in it. Use your browser's FIND command to look for keywords. Use the Site Index at the top of each page if you are fairly sure you know the name of the page where the next egg is hidden. What to do when you've found all the eggs? Have fun with them. Make some art with some of them. If you want to send me the graphic you make as a .jpg or .gif file, fine. Here's a fine Easter basket for you to copy to your "Paint"-type program. Copy the eggs you find from my site and paste them into this basket. Color in the basket with your art program or print and color offline. I'm doing this just for fun and really don't want to collect the email addresses of children. This is really a lesson in web navigation and how to grab clip art from web sites and put in an art program. Just have fun with it! The solutions will be up on this page on the day after Easter, March 24, 2008. The hunt will be taken down on March 26, until next spring. The page links below are still interesting, even without eggs on them. Other Easter Lessons Easter Island How and why did its inhabitants carve and transport the massive statues which surround the island? What remains of this culture today, and what lessons can we learn from their legacy? [Ancient Hisory] Five "Eggs-traordinary" Lesson Plans: Just Add the Eggs! Looking for a teaching theme with which to welcome spring? We have "eggs-actly" what you're looking for! Toss eggs into the curriculum mix. Eggs can be used to teach skills in math, geography, and science. And don't forget to create "eggs-quisite" art! The gospel on making perfect hard-cooked eggs Here's how to cook hard-cooked eggs the eggspert (sorry, we couldn't resist) way. Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs - All Fiber Arts Dyeing Easter eggs and wool using natural dyes found in your kitchen. What is an "Easter Egg"? The term "Easter Egg", as we use it here, means any amusing tidbit that creators hid in their creations. They could be in computer software, movies, music, art, books, or even your watch. [Creativity] The White House Easter Egg Roll At the first Easter egg hunt at the White House the children didn't so much collect eggs but when found, they rolled them around until the lawns were covered with broken eggs. This was a problem! So the tradition of putting the eggs in baskets was instituted. [US History]

Books To Help You have fun and learn through the holidays   Runny Babbit : A Billy Sook by Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake, and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language all their own. So if you say, "Let's bead a rook That's billy as can se," You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk, Just like mim and he.   The Very First Easter by Paul L. Maier, et al Quotations from Luke tell the story, but the discussion between Christopher and his Dad explain the Easter story in a way that seems natural and easy to understand.   The Dumb Bunnies' Easter by Sue Denim, Dav Pilkey (Illustrator) Here, the bunnies have some holiday problems. For example, they expect the Easter Bunny to come in a "shiny red minivan pulled by eight flying pilgrims." Their glorious ability to get every single thing wrong will leave preschoolers in stitches.   175 Easy-To-Do-Easter Crafts (Easy-To-Do Crafts Easy-To-Find Things) by Sharon Dunn Umnik (Editor), Charlie Cary (Photographer) A delightful craft book for children integrates simple directions and colorful photographs to offer everything needed to make clever projects that celebrate spring, from Victorian eggs and bunny puppets to simple jewelry and egg-carton tulips.