Ways to Use Plastic Easter Eggs in Learning Activities

April 2, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

With Easter upon us you might have an excess of plastic eggs in the classroom or at home. The good news is there are tons of different learning activities you can do with these simple plastic pieces. One year we made maracas with eggs and plastic forks, and also played with sound by filling them with random things and shaking them.

But there are lots of other options for learning activities using plastic eggs. Check out these ideas for math, reading, STEM, art and more! These egg-citing ideas might just send you to the store for more eggs.

Use eggs as stamps to make an art project (Buggy and Buddy). Or make egg-shaped bath bombs (Mom Foodie).

Do color matching with the plastic eggs and an egg container (Sunny Day Family).

Add glow sticks and noise makers to make glow in the dark shaker eggs (Happily Ever Mom).

Fill them with action prompts and have kids pick an egg (or hunt for eggs) and do the action (Playdough to Plato).

Make magnetic eggs to play with and learn about magnetism (Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls).

See how many open egg pieces you can stack into a tower (The Resourceful Mama).

Use these free printables to make an Easter egg hunt into a sight word learning activity (In My World). Or make a sigth word “scrambled egg” hunt (This Reading Mama).

Grab some tiny things that will fit in your eggs and practice one to one correspondence (Playground Parkbench, via NutureStore).

Use eggs and an egg tray to practice math facts, or write the question on one half of the egg and the answer on the other and match them up (Mrs. Wheeler First). Or play a math facts egg toss game (Fun Learning for Kids).

Match analog time to the numbers on different parts of the egg (Mom to 2 Posh Little Divas).

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Learning about Snow

Not all of us live where there is a lot of snow in the winter (or even where it is winter as I write this, but it can still be fun to learn about snow, what it is and why it falls, so let’s get into it!

First, let’s talk snowflake science with The Homeschool Scientist. They have a free prinatble snowflake science less that’s more than 60 pages long and good for multiple grade levels. The blog post linked here includes some fun snow facts, information about how snowflakes form and why they are both six-sided and (probably) all different.

Expressive Monkey has a great post about how snowflakes are formed and why they have six arms, and also shows some of the pictures taken by W. A. Bentley in the 1920s (more on him below).

You can also grab a free snow facts worksheet with space for kids to draw their own unique snowflakes from Education.com. Simple Living Creative Learning also has a paid snow study resource set that includes things like different types of snowflakes, the snow cycle, symmetry drawing with snowflakes, tips for snow safety, snow-related vocabulary and more.

Homeschool Superfreak has another great page for learning about snowflakes, which includes information about Snowflake Bentley, a great book to read (and person to learn about). It includes lesson plan ideas and links to activities.

Speaking of activities, if you happen to have snow around you can make snow ice cream or maple candy, paint on snow or with snow, or do some snow science experiments. If you get a ton of snow you could maybe even build an igloo or snow structure.

If you don’t get snow you can learn about how animals keep warm in the snow and cold temperatures with this experiment from I Can Teach My Child. Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls can help you learn why big paws (or snowshoes) make it easier to walk in the snow. Or make a snowstorm in a jar like this one from MomBrite.

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