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Three Fun Easter Egg Activities

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• Does it offer an educational experience? Yes
• What does it teach? Holiday, colors, patterns, sizes, shapes, music
• Is it age (i.e., 2 - 3 year old) appropriate? Yes

What You’ll Need:

• A set of colored, plastic easter eggs
• Paper plates
• Washable markers
• Washable paint
• Large rectangular cake pan
• Tape
• Scissors
• Small toys, rocks, rice (anything that will fit into the eggs and make a noise)

Activity 1: Rolling eggs in paint

Adult Prep Work:

1. Tape white paper to the bottom of your cake pan (make sure the sides are high enough so the eggs can roll around without falling out)
2. Squeeze out 2 or 3 paint colors

What Your Child Will Do:

1. Roll each egg in a separate color (we only used three eggs & again chose spring colors)
2. Shake the eggs in the cake dish to make colorful patterns on the paper

I thought this would be a fun activity because it is both messy & loud! But I was surprised by the pretty final product. It ended up looking like three jellyfish!

Activity 2: Making music shakers

What Your Child Will Do:

1. Find toys, rice, blocks that fit into the eggs
2. Shake them up & make some music

This turned into a fun scavenger hunt around the house in which my son had to figure out what fit inside the egg. Some items were too big and didn't fit so we learned about different sizes.

If you use rice or beans, you might want to put tape around the eggs so you don't end up with a huge mess.

Activity 3: Matching colors

Adult Prep Work:

1. Color or paint three or more plates to match each of your eggs

What Your Child Will Do:

1. Put each egg on the plate with the matching color

We are having a little trouble learning our colors so this was a fun, learning activity!