Easter is just around the corner! With all of the brightly colored plastic Easter eggs around, I wanted to find some great activities to use them for learning opportunities. I decided to round up some of the best ideas from my fellow bloggers. These activities use plastic eggs for everything from reading to math to science to exercise.

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Easter Egg Language Practice

1. Beginning Sounds Easter Eggs – Growing Book by Book uses plastic eggs to practice beginning sounds of words in this fun game. Open the egg, say the word and sort the paper into the correct bowl based on the beginning sound.

2. Green Eggs and Ham Color Words Game – Growing Book by Book also created this fun game using plastic eggs and the Dr. Seuss classic Green Eggs and Ham to practice color recognition.

3. Easter Egg Word Family Eggs – Natural Beach Living used plastic eggs and a permanent marker to set up this easy activity to help kids practice word families.

4. Easter Basket Phonics Hunt – Tots and Me… Growing Up Together created this game using an Easter basket and plastic eggs. Kids are given an egg carton full of plastic eggs, each marked with a letter, as well as a basket full of small items. For each item they find in the Easter basket, they match it to the egg with the correct beginning sound, and place it inside.

 

Easter Egg Sensory Fun

1 & 2. Easter Egg Slime – Little Bins for Little Hands and The Best Ideas for Kids both fill their plastic eggs with colorful batches of festive slime.

3. Kinetic Sand & Easter Eggs – You Clever Monkey uses kinetic sand and plastic eggs as an invitation to play.

4. Easter Play Dough Invitation to Create – The Ladybird’s Adventure incorporated plastic eggs into some colorful play dough play time.

5. Birdseed Egg Shakers – Buggy and Buddy filled plastic eggs with birdseed to create these adorable musical shakers.

 

Easter Boxes, Bins & Trays

1. Egg Sensory Bin – Crafts on Sea uses plastic Easter eggs and water beads to create a unique sensory experience.

2. Easter Themed Tuff Tray – This fun tray from Learning and Exploring Through Play includes a variety of Easter themed learning activities including math, language and sensory play.

3. Humpty Dumpty Sensory Bin – This sensory bin from My Storytime Corner uses shredded paper, plastic eggs and felt numbers to go along with the story Humpty Dumpty.

4. Easter Sensory Bin – The blog Here Comes the Girls created this fun sensory bin using lentils and mung beans in the shape of an egg, as well as plastic eggs and small fluffy chicks.

5. Spring Themed Sensory Box – This fun sensory bin from Learning and Exploring Through Play includes plastic eggs, colored rice and a variety of Easter themed toys and objects.

6. Hatching Chick Spring Sensory Bin – Messy Little Monster created this fun sensory bin that offers an opportunity for imaginative play, as well as counting practice. Hatch the plastic eggs to count the number of chicks hiding inside!

7. Springtime Easter Sensory Basket – Natural Beach Living created this fun sensory basket using plastic eggs and other Spring themed items around the house.

 

Easter Egg Math

1. Egg Math with a Hundreds Chart – Inspiration Laboratories uses plastic eggs and a hundreds chart to practice number recognition, counting and addition. Create a colorful mystery picture and practice a variety of math facts.

2. Easter Graphing – The Wise Owl Factory uses plastic eggs and jelly beans to help kids practice their fine motor and graphing skills.

3. Addition Easter Eggs – Homeschool Preschool uses plastic eggs and a permanent marker to help kids review math facts. One side of the egg has a math problem written on it, while the other half contains the answer to the problem, as well as a few other numbers under 10.

4. Easter Egg Number Match – JDaniel4’s Mom offers this fun game using a muffin tin, printable cards and plastic eggs marked with dots to help kids practice their counting and number recognition skills.

5. Plastic Egg Patterning – JDaniel4’s Mom uses plastic eggs to help kids practice simple patterns by stacking the colored eggs in chosen patterns.

6. Easter Egg Sequencing – School Time Snippets encourages sequencing practice with this activity using plastic eggs and a half egg carton. Kids are encouraged to match the pattern depicted on a card by placing the eggs in the right order in the carton.

 

STEM Fun at Easter

1. Easter Egg Baking Soda Science – Little Bins for Little Hands uses plastic eggs, baking soda and vinegar to create a fun (and glittery) science experiment!

2. Easter Catapult STEM Activity – Little Bins for Little Hands offers this fun STEM activity creating a catapult for plastic eggs. and teaching Newton’s Laws of Motion.

3. Color Surprise Fizzing Eggs – Schooling a Monkey uses baking soda, vinegar and food coloring to offer a surprising science experiment.

4. Easter Egg Rocket Races – Inspiration Laboratories created these fun rockets out of plastic eggs, and shows you two ways to launch them!

5. Plastic Egg Magnetic Science – Modern Mom Preschool uses plastic eggs and magnets to encourage scientific exploration. Some eggs are filled with magnetic objects and kids are encouraged to use a magnet to test each one.

6. Color Mixing with Plastic Eggs – The blog Teach Me Mommy uses clear plastic eggs and a variety of paint colors to show kids how colors mix to make other colors.

 

Color Games

1. Color Sorting Spring Sensory Bin – The blog Teaching Two and Three Year Olds created this fun sensory bin using plastic eggs, colored pom poms, and lentils.

2. Color Sorting Game – This color sorting game from Powerful Mothering uses printable cards that mix and match a variety of plastic eggs into different patterns, then challenges kids to copy the image on the card.

3. Color Sorting Egg Tray – The blog Powerful Mothering used an empty egg tray and a variety of colored plastic eggs to encourage babies and toddlers to interact with plastic eggs and sort them into color groups.

4. Pom Pom Color Sorting – Living Life and Learning used an empty egg carton and pom poms to create this easy color sorting game.

 

Easter Egg Crafts

1. Storybook Inspired Eggs – Growing Book by Book decorates plastic eggs with designs inspired by some of their favorite children’s books.

2. Mad Hatter’s Teacups – The Gingerbread House created these adorable tea cups using plastic eggs and buttons.

3. Easter Egg Weebles – The blog Pink Stripey Socks used plastic eggs to create these adorable wobbling characters.

4. Surprise Egg Chicks – Crafts on Sea created these adorable chicks out of plastic eggs, and included fun surprises inside!

5. Decorated Hatching Chick – These adorable hatching chicks from Kiddy Charts are made with plastic eggs and Washi tape.

6. Lego Easter Egg Craft – Adventure in a Box used yellow plastic eggs and a permanent marker to create these adorable Lego themed eggs.

7. Easter Egg Countdown – Healthy Happy Thrifty Family uses plastic eggs to create this fun countdown to Easter.

 

Making Art with Plastic Eggs

1. 3D Easter Egg Art – Fun-A-Day used plastic egg halves to paint circles all over a canvas, then attached plastic eggs to their artwork to make it three dimensional.

2. Painting with Plastic Eggs – Buggy and Buddy used plastic egg halves to create circle collages.

3. Easter Egg Sculptures – The site Fun-A-Day uses hot glue and plastic eggs to create fun sculptures.

4. Easter Egg Process Art – Learning and Exploring Through Play uses filled plastic eggs and a tray to create these beautiful paintings.

5. Easter Shake Process Art – Learning and Exploring Through Play wrapped a piece of paper around the inside of a container. They then added plastic eggs and paint and shook it up to create beautiful artwork.

6. Easter Egg Mindfulness Painting – Kiddie Matters used plastic egg halves and paint to encourage mindfulness through this fun art project.

 

Easter Egg Hunts

1 & 2. Glow in the Dark Easter Egg Hunt – The blogs Eats Amazing and Having Fun Saving used plastic eggs and glow sticks to take egg hunts to the next level!

3. Energy Burning Easter Egg Hunt – This fun egg hunt from Eats Amazing ups the energy level of the traditional hunt by including fun exercises inside each egg.

4. Egg Hunt for Opposites – School Time Snippets created this fun scavenger hunt matching different pairs of opposites. Kids search for halves of an egg that each have opposite words pictured on them.

5. Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt – Wunder-Mom uses differently patterned eggs in this fun scavenger hunt with printable cards.

 

Easter Egg Exercises and Activities

1. Silly Easter Egg Games – Laly Mom offers 5 fun games that use Easter eggs, including egg balancing, egg flipping and color matching. 

2. Easter Eggs-ercises – The Seasoned Mom gets kids moving with these fun plastic eggs stuffed with festive exercises.

3. Easter Yoga Poses – This game from Kids Yoga Stories uses plastic eggs and Easter themed poses to get kids moving.

4. Resurrection Eggs – The site Saving Dollars and Sense offers these homemade Resurrection Eggs to teach kids about the Easter story.

5. Listening Eggs – In Our Pond filled plastic eggs with various objects that make different noises. Kids are then invited to put the eggs into a box and identify the noises in the eggs.

6. Identifying Feelings – Kiddie Matters uses plastic eggs to create an egg hunt that offers practice with recognizing feelings. Kids pick an egg out of a sensory bin and open it up. If there is a picture of a feeling, they add it to their graph. If there is a number, they answer the corresponding feelings question on the questionnaire.

7. Easter Egg Feelings Memory – Kiddie Matters also uses Easter egg halves to cover the faces on this Feelings Memory game. This game not only works on memory skills, but also encourages practice with identifying facial expressions and emotions.

 

More Easter Egg Fun

For every more fun activities with plastic eggs, check out the roundups at Edventures with Kids & iGameMom!

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