Using a wallpaper sample book, cut out ten to twenty different matching sets of eggs.

Use these eggs in various ways:

Eggs in a Row

Use four to six pair of eggs. Put one of each pair in a row on the table or floor. One child takes the remaining eggs and puts them in the same sequence under your row of eggs.

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Back-to Back Match Up

Two children sit back to back.  One child has three to six eggs and the other child has the 

matching set of eggs.  One child describes one of the eggs. The other child tries to find the 

same egg in his/her set.  For example: "Hold up the yellow egg with the green lines on it."

When the child finds the match and holds it up, everyone claps.  Let two other children take 

their places and play the game again. Continue until everyone has had a turn.

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Silent Pair-Up

Have all the children close their eyes. Quickly give an egg to each child.  Ask the children to open their eyes and walk around to find the child with the matching egg. When two children have a matching pair, they walk over and put their eggs in the Easter basket.

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Lost and Found

Give each child one egg from each of the pairs of eggs. Holding the empty Easter basket say:   "Being a Bunny isn't so funny when you've lost your eggs!"  Then say "I lost a (an) _______egg"  and describe one of the eggs being held by a child.  The child with the egg says,  "I found it."  and comes to put it in the basket.  Now that child becomes the Bunny and says,  "I lost a (an) _______egg."   Continue until everyone has a turn.

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Egg Poem

Eggs come in many sizes.

Eggs hold some big surprises,

Speckled, brown, white, or blue.

Eggs hold babies that are new.

Chicks from eggs are fluffy yellow,

Chicks from eggs are funny fellows!

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Green-Eggs-And-Ham Breakfast

Have a "Green-Eggs-And-Ham Breakfast" and invite parents if you wish.  Prepare

this unusual breakfast after reading the book by Dr. Seuss. Have the children

design their own invitations for this event.

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Egg Shell Mosaics

On a large piece of paper, have the children draw a basket. Glue crushed egg shells to fill in basket.  Children may either use shells from colored eggs, or may color the shells using markers after they are glued.

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Karo Syrup Eggs 

Cut out Easter eggs out of heavy paper. Pour Karo syrup on it and drops of food coloring. Let the kids use their fingers to mix the colors into the syrup and lay them flat to dry- it takes a long time for them to dry, but they are really pretty when they are done.

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Egg Shell Chalk 

Supplies needed:  4-5 eggshells, 1 teas. Flour, 1 teas. very hot tap water, food coloring (optional)

Wash & dry eggshells. Put into bowl & grind into a powder. Discard any large pieces. Place flour & hot water in another bowl & add 1  tblsp. eggshell powder & mix until a paste forms. Add food coloring if  desired. Shape and press mixture firmly into the shape of a chalk stick, and roll up tightly in a strip of paper towel. Allow to dry approximately 3 days until hard. Remove paper towel & you've got chalk! Eggshell chalk is for sidewalks only.

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Styrofoam Eggs

Supplies needed:  Styrofoam eggs, paint, push pins, misc. craft items.

Take big Styrofoam eggs and painted them. Then use little jewelry beads from the craft store to decorate. The flower shaped gems are very nice. Use the push pins to insert.  When inserted through the plastic, they look like little flowers. Cover the egg.

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Egg's Potato

Play hot potato with a plastic Easter egg. 

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Egg Counting

Supplies needed:   10-12 regular size plastics eggs, plastic egg carton, small trinkets that will fit into the eggs.

Number the outside of each egg with one number 1-10 or 12 with permanent marker.  Have the small trinkets displayed in a basket that is small enough to fit with the project.  Show the children how to read the number on the egg, open it and place the correct amount of trinkets inside the egg.  Let them finish with the rest of the numbers.

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Sound Eggs (cylinders)

Supplies needed:  6 or 12 small plastic eggs two of each color, salt, rice, pinto beans, lima beans, sand, etc., tape.

Fill two matching color eggs with the same material (salt, etc.)  Tape closed.  Use these in the same manner you would use the sound cylinders.  Lay the eggs flat out on the work surface in a random row.  Shake one egg and let the children listen.  Now try and find the match.  Continue with the other eggs.

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Plastic Eggs

Collect a variety of plastic eggs, such as brightly colored, speckled and metallic. Ask one child in a pair to make a pattern.  Encourage his partner to copy or extend the pattern.

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Egg Painting

Stock your art center with plastic eggs, paint and paper.  Invite the students to experiment by dipping an egg into paint then rolling it around on a piece of paper that has been placed in a box lid.  To create circle designs, repeatedly press an egg half into paint; then onto a sheet of paper. Dip one end of an egg into paint, the press it onto paper to create dots.

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Colored Eggs

Supplies needed:  colored eggs, tissue paper or crepe paper.

Wet the egg and place pieces of colored tissue paper on it.  Set it aside to dry.  When the egg dries the tissue paper falls off and the colors stay behind.

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Songs/Fingerplays

Write songs and fingerplays on little pieces of paper and inserted them into tiny plastic Easter eggs. At circle time let a different child have a chance to choose an egg and do what it said. Then put a little treat in each egg when we were finished.

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Egg Roll

Tape the floor with masking tape, and have the children push the eggs with their noses across the floor, or try to have them use spoons or anything else you can think of to move them along.

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A Dozen Eggs
Number twelve eggs or Ping Pong balls 1 through 12 with a permanent marker.  Have the child place the eggs in numerical order in an egg carton. To make the activity easier for younger children, write the appropriate numeral in the bottom of each section of the egg carton. Talk about the word "dozen." What other items are sold by the dozen?

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