1. Opening circle (10 min)
Big circle: How do you feel now, what happened to you during the last week?
2. Finding Easter eggs (15 min)
We need as many Kinder chocolate eggs as the number of participants. Before the workshop the facilitator extracts the plastic egg from the chocolate shell, removes the gadgets and sets the chocolate and the gagdets aside. The images in the Annex are printed and folded separately and each plastic egg is filled with a folded up image. The facilitator hides the eggs in the classroom/school garden. The participants have to find the eggs and then in a big circle explain how the image in their egg is connected to springtime celebrations. After the explanation, each participant receives the chocolate and gadget part of the Kinder egg.
3. Spring cleaning (15 min)
Spring cleaning is an integral part of springtime celebrations. The facilitator encourages disussions about cleaning, why it is connected to springtime, what superstitions, customs the participants know about, what is needed for a thorough cleaning (tools, detergents, etc.), what jobs the participants can or are willing to do.
4. Job vacancy for Spring Fairy (15 min)
Participants work in groups. Their task is to write an advertisement looking for a Spring Fairy. They have to make lists of the jobs a Spring Fairy should be responsible for. Participants have to think about what changes in nature at springtime and which of these changes could be attributed to a Spring Fairy.
A possible home assignment till the following week could be to try and act as a Spring Fairy by germinating seeds.
5. Closing circle (5 min)
What are you taking away from this workshop? What was the best/ most difficult?
Which school subject would you connect this workshop to?
Annex
