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Fun Easter Activities to Do From Home

Fun Easter Activities to Do From Home

A few fun Easter activities to do during the nationwide lockdown.

April 9, 2020

We're all about to experience our first-ever Easter Weekend in a nationwide lockdown. While we can't do much, we can provide you with some fun activities to do while you're stuck at home. The below activities are designed for tamariki but adults you are welcome to join in too!

Activities You Can Do From Home:

Colouring-In Activity‍

This is based on our children's book The Six-Foot Rats, Written and Illustrated by Rebecca Gibbs.

You can download and print a copy of this here.

Activity Sheet‍

You can download and print this fun activity sheet here.

Make Your Own Rat Ears!‍

You can download and print a copy of these here. You'll also need glue and scissors to make your set of rat ears.

Why Expose Otago University?

Learn more about why we are exposing animal experiments that have taken place at the University of Otago.

Otago Exposed References

Access the references for the animal experiments we exposed during our special 12 Days of Christmas Otago exposé.

Day 1 - Otago Exposed

Baby rats were force fed alcohol in a cruel experiment at Otago Uni.

Day 2 - Otago Exposed

Rats brains were damaged and pierced with electrodes.

Day 3 - Otago Exposed

Living bees were sliced open and electrocuted.

Day 4 - Otago Exposed

Rats were subject to loud noises and electrocuted.

Day 5 - Otago Exposed

Guinea pigs were forced to swim in the notorious Morris water maze test.

Day 6 - Otago Exposed

Mother rats were given injections to try and hinder the brain development of their babies, who were then experimented on.

Day 7 - Otago Exposed

Young mice were forced to experience chronic stress for two weeks.

Day 8 -Otago Exposed

Rabbits had holes drilled into their jaws.

Day 9 - Otago Exposed

Guinea pigs had their heads drilled into and were given hypothermia.

Day 10 - Otago Exposed

Rats had their legs surgically damaged and were forced to walk on a rotating drum.

Day 11 - Otago Exposed

Sheep had around 30% of their blood drained from their bodies.

Day 12 - Update

What we have achieved together and our next steps!

With your help we can end animal experimentation in Aotearoa.

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