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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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Sun Activities for Kids

With summer coming soon in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s a fun time to incorporate activities and crafts with a sunny theme. Take some time to learn about the sun (this post from National Geographic Kids is a good one) and then do some sun activities.

Sun prints are a classic summer activity, and there are lots of ways to do them, from placing objects on construction paper (like in this craft from MomBrite) or by using sun print paper (aka cyanotype paper).

Practice threading, counting, color sorting and other skills with this easy sun threading activity from Taming Little Monsters.

Lessons 4 Little Ones has a great blog post full of ideas for science experiments using the sun, such as melting crayons, looking at shadows, making a sun dial and trying a solar oven. Printables to go with the lessons are available for purchase or you can just talk through the students’ hypotheses about what will happen and draw or otherwise record the results.

This updraft tower from Almost Unschoolers is a cool way to illustrate that the heat of the sun causes an updraft, which makes the pinwheel spin. This is a good one to do inside near a sunny window so you don’t have wind spinning the pinwheel instead.

You’ll want to get out in the sun to try this experiment form Life with Moore Babies to see what kinds of things the sun can melt. Using different kinds of sweets you can see how the sun melts things by itself and how you can concentrate the power of the sun with a magnifying glass.

Playing with shadows is fun for kids of all ages, and you can track a shadow through the day with this experiment from Science Sparks. If you’re working with multiple kids they can each choose an object to shadow (ha!) and at the end of the day you can see how different their shadows looked. 

And of course you’ll want to make a sun themed suncatcher craft, right? This one from Fox Farm Home uses all the pretty flowers you collect on your nature walk and puts them in a sun-shaped frame.

 

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