Easter Egg Fun

Even though we are all stuck at home and sometimes may not know what day it is, don't forget Easter is coming up. If you're trying to do grocery delivery or store pick up, like I often try to do. You better get your Easter eggs on your next order or it maybe too late. Those wait times can be crazy sometimes. But let's be honest, no one really knows what day it is anymore and the kids definitely don't know, so even after Easter you can have some Easter fun. No one will be around that rat you out. The kids don't care if Easter or not, they'll play with the Easter eggs anyways. Don't hold back their creativity.

When my little guy was little we had Easter egg hunts around our house for a good week or two after Easter. He loved finding them and then hiding them for me. We would hide things in them and tried to find the prize.

There is so much you can do with those plastic Easter eggs.

Put pictures of their target words in there. Anyone working on their /p/ sound there is a flashcard printable available in the printable section. You could also use any of the animals from either of the animal printables. Fold them up and stick them in, it works on fine motor skills to unfold them. They work on their target words or animal sounds while going on an Easter egg hunt.

You can also play with the Easter eggs in sensory bins. They can work on asking for help to open or close the eggs or saying "open". They can fill them up and dump them. Make maracas. Match the two pieces together. They can be some problem solving right there.

If you have pom poms or colored items or even colored paper that would match the colors of your eggs you can match colors. Put the pom poms in the same colored egg or the egg on the same colored paper. Or even the pom poms on the paper. You can name the colors and count everything. Sort by color and then count each color.

I know one goal that some of my kiddos have is to understand the concept of one and all. You can ask for one egg or all the blue eggs. If they don't understand what one is, demonstrate it. "Oh I only want one" and put one egg in your hand. "See just one. I'll give you one egg." Then let them have a try. If they try to give you one and then another one, say "Oh I just want one." and show them this is one egg.

Kids learn so much through their play so keep playing, keep active and keep learning.