Easter Egg Learning Activities (Repost)

How many learning activities can you make with one $2 package of plastic Easter eggs? My son and I (unintentionally) made it our mission to find out!

During our weekly grocery trip, I picked up a bag of plastic Easter eggs, with the intention of using them for a letter matching activity. I wrote an upper case letter on the top half of an egg, then the lower case letter on the bottom half. I broke each egg in half, and hid them all around our living room. Maddox went on an egg hunt to find all of the pieces. Once he found them all, he worked to find the matching letters and put the eggs back together.

Originally, that was the extent of the activity. But once we got started, we took it a step further, and turned it into a phonics/vocabulary lesson.  He put all of the eggs into a container. He drew out one egg at a time, read the letter, made it's sound, and named a word that started with the letter. We then sorted the eggs into piles of vowels and consonants.

Later in the day, we used the eggs again, combined with some Play Doh for this S.T.E.M. activity. This kept him occupied for a while...he loved it!

After that, he asked if he could put Play Doh inside each egg and have another Easter egg hunt. So, that it what we did! But...before he "hunted " for them, we made a list of his guesses of how many eggs contained each color of Play Doh (we used 4 colors). Then after he found all of the eggs, we counted how many eggs contained each color (and learned about using tally marks in the process) and compared the actual list to his predictions.

I was surprised how many activities we made out of this one package of plastic eggs, and we can reuse them for these activities, or others, over and over again! $2 well spent!