Fun with Plastic Eggs

There are loads of ideas for how you can use plastic Easter eggs before you cram them full of candy, stickers, and bouncy balls on Easter Day. Here are a few ways we've used them this week:

Capital & lower case letter matching. Charlotte loves the Leap Frog movies Phonics Farm and Amazing Alphabet Adventure (on Netflix). She can identify all capital letters, but not all lower case, and this is good practice. If I make the matches again, I'll only use two colors of eggs - one color will go on top, one on bottom. 

Memory.

Hide small objects under egg halves (we used 12 (six pairs). This is pretty tricky for Charlotte, as she doesn't quite understand how beneficial it is to look under new eggs each turn - she keeps going back to the same ones. She does very well as a team, though, getting most matches immediately if someone else picks up the first egg. Again, it could be easier if I only used two colors of eggs. 

Circles Painting

Charlotte loves the show Peg + Cat on PBS & Cat loves circles "cuz they're round!" Charlotte was excited to use the eggs as stamps to create some circle art. I think it's lovely & Cat would be proud! 

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Natalie likes looking at all the eggs, too! She likes to pick them up, wave them around, and of course - taste them!! :-)