Happy Easter

Happy Easter!
For the past week WPIPS has been alive with Easter preparations in all forms! We learnt a bit about what Easter is all about and why we celebrate it, and what Easter means to the students.
We also did a lot of crafts, in particular our pinatas that we made filled with Easter eggs and that we plan to smash this afternoon (a full tutorial coming soon).

Virginie showing off her pinata (finished product coming soon...)

Then we made made our Easter baskets that were adorably cute, with a little chick on the side.

Virginie with her finished basket!

The cute little chick on Guillaume's basket

Guillaume posing with his basket

Virginie's Easter Basket: very impressive!

 And here is a photo of the baskets that Max, Emilie and Anne-Priscilla made last April:

 Max, Emilie and Anne-Priscilla's Easter baskets of 2011

We'd love to know which baskets you prefer. The Easter baskets of 2011 or 2012? We love the bows from the 2011 baskets but the little chick on the 2012 baskets is so cute!


We also did some serious work too, but that was just as fun! We wrote some really neat letters to the Easter Bunny! This gave us a great chance to revise the parts of a letter. Guillaume and Virginie really liked knowing about the Easter Bunny because in France bells bring the chocolate instead.

Bonnie writing her letter to the Easter Bunny

We did so much work to make this an Easter never to forget, so we were very pleased (and surprised) when we went to the schools this morning to find a very pleasant sight! Proof of the Easter Bunny in many forms! While we didn't actually see him, we did see...
His footprints,

These footprints didn't belong to any of us...

His reply to our Easter letters,
And of course... chocolate! Virginie and Guillaume were so happy to have some Toblerone to munch on whilst they finished their pinatas.

Very happy chappys!

Guillaume was happy to see his basket filled

Thanks a lot Easter Bunny! What a great Easter at WPIPS! We haven't finished yet though, we have to go smash those pinatas (don't they look impressive?) and get searching for Easter Eggs because we are having an Easter egg hunt!


So tell us, what did you do for Easter? While we are on the topic, we my as well show what we got up to last year. Unfortunately we didn't have time this year (in between all the other awesome stuff we've been up to), but at Easter last year, we dyed eggs... It was messy, but so much fun, and we got to eat the eggs after for breakfast on Easter Sunday. (Hint: if dying your own eggs, hardboil them first, then decorate/dye because we didn't think about that and although we used food colouring, when we hardboiled them, all the dye came out :( Still so much fun and really yummy!)

Maxime and Anne-Priscilla dying eggs

Everybody at WPIPS hopes you had a really great Easter, because we sure did!

Project Bunting

With preparations for our sports carnival in full swing, we've set to work making some pretty bunting in the colours of our 3 factions - gold, pearl and lilac.
Here we have a tutorial on how to make some bunting. You don't have to use your bunting for a carnival, it would look great as decoration inside a house or wherever you choose!

Step 1 - Collect the materials!

You will need: thin carboard (we used cereal boxes), stickytape, a ruler, a pencil, gluestick, scissors, string and coloured/patterned paper (square is best).

Step 2 - Cut out the triangles

If your paper is already square, that's great, but if not cut it to a square shape and then fold it in half so that the back of the paper is facing outwards. You will then need to draw lines like the ones above. Our paper was 30cm squared and we drew lines at 0cm, 10cm, 20cm and 30cm on the top and at 5cm, 15cm and 25cm on the bottom. Once you've drawn the lines (remember to use a ruler and a pencil in case you make a mistake) cut out the triangles.

Step 3 - Glue the triangles onto cardboard

This is a pretty simple step, but remember to glue the back of the triangles to the patterned side of the cardboard so that then the backs of the triangles look nice and neat! Another handy tip is to glue the triangles nice and close together so that not so much cardboard is wasted.

Step 4 - Cut the triangles out of cardboard

Step 5 - String the triangles

Above is what our triangles looked like before they were hung. To make the hanging process easier, we taped a piece of string from one side of the room to the other (a bit like a washing line) and then stickytaped the triangles onto the string. It doesn't matter if the backs look a bit bad, the front should be that striking that no-one is going to worry about the back and if the bunting is hung on a wall, you're not going to see it anyhow. If you wanted, you could put 2 triangles back to back.

The finished product will be revealed tomorrow, so watch this space!