Over-praising kids does more harm than good. As a parent and as a teacher, I think that is important, overpraising  kids, so common in this time, In my opinion because   we are so afraid,  to hurt our kids' self esteem,  that we overprotected and overpraise our children.  This imaginary shield does more harm than good because as this article mention we are created a false self that will crash with reality.
Is better let the children try the times necessary, encourage them, support them,  until they reach competence.
On the other hand competence is not built in one day and also is not built lower others  in our way,  or blaming others for the children's failures.
The children will reach competence when they try over and over again, that means they face and own their failures in the process  and overcome them.
Self-esteem comes from feeling loved and secure, and from developing competence, Taylor says, and although parents often shower their kids with the first two ingredients, to be competent —takes time and effort. “As much as we may want to, we can’t praise our kids into competence,” he says.
In fact, by over-praising kids, we’re doing more harm than good. “We’re lowering the bar for them,” Taylor says. “If you keep telling your child she is already doing a fantastic job, you’re saying she no longer needs to push herself. But confidence comes from doing, from trying and failing and trying again. Our job as parent and as educators is to support them, to encourage them
My experience as an educator coincide with what in the article Samantha MacLeod, who has four boys, ages one to nine, believes constant complimenting can actually erode self-esteem. Either kids start thinking they’re perfect  and they do not need to do anything else to improve or they  or they try to be perfecto or the time, also an impossible standard.
An excessive or inaccurate praise confuses them. The praise must be specific and accurate.

Plus, Taylor adds, telling your child he’s the best, the smartest or the most talented is setting him up for some very bad news down the road. sooner or later, he’ll discover he’s not all that after all, and will be devastated.

At emmasplace.ca you can find free Easter worksheets, recommended books for Easter, songs and ideas. Here some of the free material.  

Spring is here the days will start warming up  that means more time outside.  There are plenty of things to do with children while outside, explore, motivate their curiosity , learn and most important have fun.
Here are some ideas:

1. Go for a flower hunt around the neighborhood,  called the   names and colours of the flowers.
2. Play I spy Flowers.
3. Visit a farm
4. Go for a walk or a bike to see the different sign of Spring.
5. Make a collage, what colours do you see show some pictures of flowers.  You can find some ideas and recipes in my website.
6.  Use rainbow colours  to make a rainbow with chalks, paint outside.
7. Plant a seed make a record of the seed growing.
8. Visit a botanic garden
9. Play garden or a flower store
10. From caterpillar to butterfly .  Buy a caterpillar and let the children observe the process and then release the butterflies. You can buy Painted Ladies caterpillars on line (flutter buys for example)
11. Nature collage using natural materials, like sticks little 
12. make a bird feeder or a house bird
13. Watch a caterpillar turn into butterfly.  Then release with the children the butterfly outside.  You can find online some stores  like flutterbuys.ca.
14. Make a terarium: In a glass container,  Cover the bottom of your terrarium with a 1 1/2 inch of small stones or pebbles.  Add a very thin layer of activated charcoal, add a layer of potting soil. Add your plants, small gardening tools. 
15. Make playdough  (you can find some recipes of playdoug in my website)
16. Potato stamping
17. Egg Grass head: you will need eggs, you can boil them for 15 minutes, let them cool and then carefully take the egg from the shell with a spoon, let the children decorate the egg or make a face with a marker, put 3/4 of soil in the egg, then put the grass seeds and cover the grass seed with soil and put a little water, watering every day and keep in the sun.  In three days you will start to see the grass coming up.
18. Cress Head Eggs: Another is the cress seeds, you can boil the egg or carefully empty the inside, let the children make a face, then you put two cottons in each egg and the seeds and add a little water. Find a sunny place to put your plant and wait for about three to four days, water every day.