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Not only are colorful plastic easter eggs good for various types of scavenger hunts, but they are also amazing for learning colors, practicing fine motor skills, creating patterns, and even learning letters and numbers through activities.
They are actually an extremely versatile activity supplies.
Try making words with this fun plastic easter egg activity.
I’m not sure about the the rest of you, but I truly have an abundance of plastic easter eggs stashed in my Easter bin.
I buy them each year on clearance after Easter so that I always have a big assortment of sizes and colors.
One of the traditional yearly activities that we do is to paint with them. Give it a go! It’s fun!
This year, we decided to try some new plastic egg activities.
Easter Egg Color Towers Activity
I recently found some colored plastic coasters at our local dollar store and thought they would be great for activities.
We used them for this activity but a quick substitute would be some colored paper.
For this activity, lay out the different colors of paper and give your child a bin with some split up plastic eggs.
Have your child match the colors and create a tower with the eggs.
My daughter quickly found out the the eggs have two different shaped halves as her towers kept falling over.
Problem solving at its best!
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Golf Tee Egg Balance Activity
To provide an extension to the previous activity we added golf tees and a box.
Have you child either push or hammer the golf tees into the box.
Next, have them balance the plastic egg halves on the tees.
Watch out! This is actually harder than it looks!
My daughter ended up doing it her own way… she covered the golf tee with the plastic egg instead of balancing it.
All good by me, she was having fun and that’s what mattered.
Cutting Play Dough Plastic Egg Match-Up Activity
For this activitiy, you will need play dough, scissors and an egg carton, and plastic eggs in matching colors to the play dough.
Randomly place half of a plastic Easter egg into each egg spot in the carton.
Next have you child use one colored play dough at a time and create a snake.
Then have your child use the scissors to cut play dough chunks and place them into the matching colored egg halves.
Being able to use scissors is an extremely important skill for a child to learn but it can also be a frustrating one.
Using play dough to practice scissor skills is great because it’s so easy to manipulate.
I must say that any activity that I plan with play dough, is a hit.
My girls love play dough activities!
When my child finished cutting and filling all the egg halves, we then create another extension activity which involved hammering.
Play Dough Hammering and Color Calling
Have your child dump out the play dough chunks and hammer them.
Have them hammer the cut color pieces back together!
As my daughter hammered them, I had her call out the play dough color.
She had fun with this… green, Green, GREEN!
Louder, louder and louder!
Pink, Pink, PINK!
Her excitement was contagious. She had me giggling!
What child doesn’t love to scream out every once in awhile?!
Plastic Egg Target Toss Activity
Grab a laundry hamper or any large container, along with some plastic Easter eggs and you’re set for this activity!
Give your child a bunch of plastic eggs (together this time) and throw the eggs into the laundry hamper.
I added bunny ears to the hamper, just for fun!
My daughter noticed that some of the eggs would break open.
So she came up with an activity challenge for herself to not break the plastic eggs.
It was definitely harder than it looked but she thought it was cool idea nonetheless.
Who would of thought that plastic easter eggs would be so good for other fun activities besides scavenger hunts?
So much fun was had with them!
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