Check Out These Super Fun Easter Egg Rockets!

I love the idea of using plastic Easter eggs for purposes other than hiding candy, and these Easter egg rockets from the STEM Laboratory are such a fun way to get a little more use out of your eggs.

She used little chick and bunny eggs from the dollar store, which have the benefit of feet to stand them upright. If you don’t have eggs like this you might want to try standing your egg up in an old egg carton just so it will shoot up and not sideways.

She says the egg tops don’t shoot too high, but remember to keep everyone’s eyes safely away from the egg while the experiment is in progress.

This looks like so much fun I’m definitely adding the ingredients to my shopping list.

[Photo via the STEM Laboratory.]

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Easter Bunny Themed Learning Activities

Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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Stephanie says
April 5, 2017 at 12:12 pm
I had no success with this. I purchased the exact same eggs from Dollar Tree. Tried with 1-2 Alka Seltzer tablets more than 5 separate times with different eggs from the pack just in case one was faulty. None popped. Thank goodness I did it at home before distributing to the entire class to try. Would have been quite embarrassing and a let down for all.

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