Color Sorting Eggs

This activity combines the early math skill of sorting by color with the excitement of opening eggs to see what's inside. Lauren wanted to do this activity again and again!

Materials: plastic eggs, pom poms, and bowls

Preparation: Fill each egg with 3 pom poms.

The child opens each egg, empties the contents, and sorts the pom poms into the bowls.

Word Eggs

In this fun activity the kids practice spelling simple cvc words.

Materials: plastic eggs, pictures of cvc words (cat, bug, pot, etc.), magnetic letters, and a magnetic board

Preparation: Place a picture and the letters needed to spell the word in each egg. I made two sets of six eggs.

The child opens an egg and dumps out the picture and letters. Then she names the picture and repeats the word slowly, listening for the sounds. She lays the picture on the left side of the magnetic board and uses the letters to make the word.

Coffee Filter Eggs

We made these eggs when Julia had a friend over. The girls were completely engrossed in this project and made several eggs each.

You will need coffee filters cut into egg shapes, markers, and a spray bottle.

Scribble or draw a design on the coffee filter egg.

Lightly spray with water and watch the colors run together.

Each egg is unique and beautiful. These look great hanging on a window.

We're Counting the Days

At our house we have two exciting events in April: Easter and Julia's birthday! Of course Julia wants to know how many more days until each of these events so we created an egg hunt countdown and a birthday countdown.

The egg hunt countdown is a large construction paper egg labeled with black dots. Each day the girls place a sticky dot on one of the black dots and then count the remaining days until the egg hunt. We have a pencil with a rabbit eraser and a pencil with an egg eraser to use as pointers when they count. After they determine how many days remain, Julia writes the number on a sticky note and places it on the record sheet.

I created Julia's birthday countdown in Power Point using clip art. Each day she colors a cake, counts the remaining cakes, and posts the number on the record sheet.

Easter Sensory Tub

Our sensory tub is filled with paper Easter grass, plastic eggs, empty egg cartons, yellow pom poms (chicks) and Easter baskets. The girls have had a great time exploring and playing with the materials.

Lauren enjoys opening and closing the eggs and placing them in the cartons or in her basket.

Julia has incorporated the eggs into her pretend play. One day she was the hen and I was the fox who tried to steal the eggs. Later she pretended to be an egg delivery girl. From small and simple things comes big fun!

Spring Play Dough

We have been so excited to see the wild flowers growing on the side of the roads lately. Wild flowers are even popping out of our play dough! The girls have been exploring green play dough and silk wildflowers.

Eggs in a Basket

Young children need lots of opportunities to count real objects. These cute little baskets and tiny, colorful eggs provide plenty of interest to motivate children to work with this counting game.

Materials:

• mini Easter baskets (I only had eight baskets but I think ten would work better. You can find these at a craft or party store.)


• mini Easter eggs (I found these at Hobby Lobby)
  
• number cardsThe child lays down the cards in order, places a basket above each number, and counts the appropriate number of eggs into each basket. To make this activity self checking, provide the exact number of eggs the child will need
  

Variation: If your child does not recognize numbers you can provide cards with dots. The child counts the dots on each card and places the corresponding number of eggs into the basket.

Here is a variation of this game that I made for my two year old.