Basket Of Eggs -Submitted by Patrisha
12 plastic eggs basket empty egg carton
-fill a basket with the eggs. Place the basket and egg carton together so your toddler can practice taking the eggs out of the basket and putting them in the egg carton. Toddlers will spend quite a bit of time moving the eggs back and forth. Talk about the colors of the eggs.
-for the older child. Place color dots in the bottom of each hole. The child matches the egg with the colored dot.
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Easter Match Up -Submitted by Patrisha
There are many ways to set this up depending on the skill level or the particular skill you wish to work on. Try these different set ups:
Cut out egg shapes (or ducks, bunnies) from different colors of paper. Give each child one egg. Ask the children to find one person with the same color egg.
Cut out egg shapes from different colors of paper. Cut the egg in half using a puzzle type cut, like zig zag or interlocking pieces. Give each child one half of a egg, and ask them to find the person with the other half. Or, give the children two pieces and have the children make a circle, with one child that has one match on one side and the other match on the other side. You may end up with 2 or more circles depending on how the egg pieces are distributed.
Cut Easter shapes (eggs, ducks or bunnies) from one color of paper. Label one set of shapes with numbers, i.e. if you have 20 children, label the shapes with the numbers one to ten. The other half, draw one dot on one, two on another, and so on until ten. Give each child one shape and have them find the child with their match.
Cut the shapes from one color of paper. Place matching stickers on two shapes. Give each child one shape and have them find the child with their match.
Cut the egg shapes from one color of paper. Cut the egg in half using a puzzle type cut, like zig zag or interlocking pieces. Place matching stickers on each half of a egg. Give each child one egg half and have them find the child with their match.
Place matching Easter stickers on separate index cards. Give each child a card and ask them to find the child with their match. Try all the above, but in a file folder format. Glue one part of the egg to the file folder and laminate it's match.
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Swinging Basket Toss -Submitted by Patrisha
Use a piece of rope to hang a basket from the branch of a tree. Fill plastic Easter eggs with beans, rice or popcorn kernels for weight and tape shut. Have the children line up behind the basket. Have them practice throwing eggs into the basket. For older children, try swinging the basket.
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Plastic Egg Fun- Submitted by Sherry
Try one or more of the following ideas for using plastic Easter eggs.
Take turns with your child tossing the eggs into a large basket or box.
Hide a small object inside an egg. Give clues and invite your child to guess what the object is. Then let her hide an object for you to guess.
Fill a few eggs with non-sugary items, such as erasers, stickers, or pompoms. Tuck the eggs into your child's basket for discovery on Easter morning.
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Easter Egg Counters- Submitted by Sherry
Cut out five strips of heavy paper and number them from 1 to 5. Give your child 15 Easter egg stickers. Help her to name the numeral on each of the paper strips and attach a matching number of egg stickers. Let her use the completed strips for counting practice.
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Paper Egg Hunt- Submitted by Sherry
Cut pairs of egg shapes out of several different colors of construction paper. Place one egg from each pair in an Easter basket and hide the remaining eggs around the room. Invite your child to search for the eggs. Whenever he finds one, have him bring it back to the basket and find its matching colored mate. Continue the game until all the eggs have been found.
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Egg Drop -Submitted by Patrisha
Large oatmeal container with lid, several large, plastic
Easter eggs, halves glue together.
Ahead of time, cut a hole in the bottom of a large oatmeal container to
accommodate the size of a large, plastic Easter egg. Place the lid on the
opposite end of the container. Encourage the children to drop the eggs
through the hole in the container. As the eggs drop, talk about the sound
the eggs make, and the color of the eggs. After container is filled, open
the lid and repeat the game.
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What's In The Basket? -Submitted by Patrisha
Easter basket filled with a variety of objects which are
child safe.
Ahead of time, fill an Easter basket with a variety of child-safe objects. Some suggestions are a large, plastic Easter egg, stuffed toy bunny, pictures of spring flowers, etc. Ask you toddler, What's in the Easter basket? As you explore the basket together, encourage the child to name each of the objects with you.
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Bunny May I?- Submitted by Patrisha
Played just like Mother May I? The child and parent stand at opposite sides of a room. The child asks if he/she may: take so may step forward. i.e. "Mother may I Please take 3 baby steps forward?" the answer would be either, "Yes you may", or "No you may not." The child wins when they reach you. Encourage the use of descriptive words, such as little, big, huge, tiny, and giant. You can also play this with a group of children. The winner would be the one who reaches you first.
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Vinegar and Eggs -Submitted by Patrisha
Well we probably all have seen this at one time or another. Place a hard boiled egg in a cup of vinegar, and see what happens. It bubbles. After one day, take out the egg, wipe it off with a paper towel and feel the egg. Ask your child questions about what you see and feel.
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Bunny Hop -Submitted by Patrisha
Play the song "Bunny Hop". Have the child dance around until the Bump, Bump,
Bump. Explain that is the time to Hop. Dance and Hop with your child.
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Egg Hunt Party -Submitted by Patrisha
Use one or all of the art ideas to create invitations to an Egg Hunt party. A few ideas that I have seen have been: Place coins in the eggs. Place paper in the eggs that tells you what they have "won", like a tootsie roll, or a sticker. Let the children turn in the eggs for the prizes, 1 egg, 1 prize! Let the children keep the eggs, and hand out goodie bags too.
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Egg Hop -Submitted by Patrisha
Cut out large egg shapes from colored paper. Laminate them and cut them out.
Place them on the floor and ask the children to hop from one egg to another.
These may also be used at seat markers for group time. Or make bunny or
duck foot prints for the children to follow.
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Egg Hunt -Submitted by Patrisha
Hide plastic eggs, and uhhh, have your child hunt for them. Add a twist, put coins in the eggs (for children over 3).
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Easter Egg Match-Up -Submitted by Patrisha
Collect different colored plastic eggs. Take the eggs apart and have your child find two egg halves of the same color and put them together.
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Chick Sequence Cards -Submitted by Patrisha
Make simple sequence cards for your child. Draw the different stages of a
chick hatching from an egg. Draw an egg in its' nest, an egg cracking, a
chick partly out of the egg, and a chick that is completely hatched.
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Where is your Egg? -Submitted by Patrisha
Played like "Doggie Doggie where's your bone?" Have one child sit in the middle of the circle, and hide their eyes. Give another child an egg to hide behind their back. Have all the other children put their hands behind their back. Chant the following song:
Bunny, Bunny,
The child in the middle gets three guesses.
Then the child who had the egg goes into the middle.
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What time is it Easter Bunny? -Submitted by Patrisha
This is a fun game to play outside. You can change the name to suit any theme. The children all line up against a wall or fence. And one child, (Easter Bunny) or the teacher faces away from the children, a good distance away from the children. The children yell, what time is it "Easter Bunny", Easter Bunny answers 1 o'clock, and the children all take one step toward Easter Bunny. The children yell again, what time is it "Easter Bunny", Easter Bunny answers (fill in the blank) o'clock, and the children all take same number of step toward Easter Bunny. This continues until all the children are very close to Easter Bunny then Easter Bunny will answer it's midnight, and Easter Bunny chases the children back to the fence or wall that they
started at. The first person Easter Bunny touches will be the new Easter Bunny.
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Easter Fishing Game -Submitted by Patrisha
Tie 3 feet of string to a wooden spoon. Attach a magnet to the end of the string. Cut and laminate many different colored, and Easter Shapes (eggs ducks and bunnies) from construction paper (not too big though). Attach a paper clip to each shape. Spread the shapes on the floor and let your child try to catch the shapes. Have them try to catch the red shape, or the biggest shape. For a twist, label the shapes with letters or numbers. Ask the children to catch a specific shape, or ask them which shape they caught.
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Easter Shape Sizing -Submitted by Patrisha
Cut out many different sized Easter shapes. Ask the children to line up the Easter shapes from largest to smallest.
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Easter Shape Numbers -Submitted by Patrisha
Cut out ten Easter shapes. Number them one to ten. Ask the children to line up the Easter shapes from one to ten.
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Easter Shapes Colors -Submitted by Patrisha
Ask the children to sort the Easter shapes by color.
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Easter Shapes Sort -Submitted by Patrisha
Ask the children to sort the Easter shapes by size.
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Easter Shapes -Submitted by Patrisha
Cut out many different Easter Shapes. Ducks, bunnies and eggs. Ask the children to sort the shapes into three piles, ducks, bunnies and eggs.
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Easter Egg Sort -Submitted by Patrisha
Have the children sort the eggs by size or color.
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Basket Game -Submitted by Patrisha
Supply the children with 5 baskets and Easter eggs. Place a piece of paper with a number on it in each basket and instruct the children to place that many eggs in the basket. If the basket says "5" place five eggs in the basket.
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Chick Sequence Cards -Submitted by Patrisha
Make simple sequence cards for your child. Draw the different stages of a chick hatching from an egg. Draw an egg in its' nest, an egg cracking, a chick partly out of the egg, and a chick that is completely hatched.
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Easter Science- Submitted by Sherry
The Easter theme can be carried through to your science lessons by using eggs as the basis for scientific investigation. The internet contains a wealth of lesson plans from practising teachers, including these excellent egg-related exercises:
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Bouncing Eggs- Submitted by Sherry
This is a simple experiment; ideal for younger children. Begin by placing a raw egg in a glass of vinegar. This should take 3 or 4 days. Children should be able to keep a journal of their observations as the calcium in the shell slowly dissolves. Once the shell has dissolved, the remaining egg should then bounce!
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Eggs Pattern Activity- Submitted by Sherry
Use paper eggs to scramble up some patterning lessons.
What you need:
White eggs,
Brown eggs,
Brown and white paper,
Scissors
Show your child an egg with a brown shell and one with a white
shell and discuss how they are similar and different. You can tell
her that they are the same tastewise and nutrition-wise. (Fascinating
facts kids love: Hens with brown feathers and brown earlobes lay
brown eggs, and hens with white feathers and white earlobes lay white
ones! Each lays one egg every day or so.)
Then cut a dozen egg shapes from brown and white paper and start a
pattern with them on a tabletop, such as white, brown, white, brown
and so on, saying the colors aloud as you put the shapes down.
Encourage your child to continue the pattern. Vary it by placing
eggs, for example, in a white, white, brown, white, white, brown
order. Invite your preschooler to make up her own pattern.
For snacktime, hard-boil the real brown and white eggs and have
your child taste both.Afterward, ask her to describe the eggs in her words: Are they sweet, salty, crunchy, squishy, hard, soft?
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Egg Counting Fun- Submitted by Sherry
egg carton & plastic eggs
Write numbers on the side of each egg (1 - 12). Also write numbers on the
bottom of each egg slot in carton. Then ask your children to match the egg
to its correct slot! You can also put the corresponding number of jelly
beans in each egg for an added counting surprise!
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Easter Matching- Submitted by Sherry
Different colored plastic eggs in three sizes (small, medium and large)
I put out three sizes of eggs and show the children how if they start out with the large and work their way down, that they all fit inside of one another. They can also match the colors with each other. They love doing this. I also put baby chicks with the eggs so that they can hide the baby chicks inside of the eggs.
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Planting Egghead- Submitted by Sherry
Hollowed out egg with hole in top. Glue, felt, pipe cleaners, jewels, glue on eyes, etc. Dirt and grass seed
We put a whole in the top of the egg. Empty it out, wash and let dry. Decorate the egg by making a face on it with all of your scraps and art materials. Fill the egg half way with potting soil, plant grass seed in the egg. Water and sit on the window ledge. As the grass begins to grow, your egg head begins to have hair. Cut or trim the grass (hair) as needed.
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Math Egg Hunt- Submitted by Sherry
10 Plastic eggs. Something to write with and something that the
children can use for counting (popsicle sticks). Make sure you have enough so that all the children can count out their particular number.
The teacher will hide the eggs where young children can easily find them. When all the eggs have been found (one egg per child) then the children will go to a spot you have chosen to open their eggs. Have children take turns opening their eggs. After the egg has been opened the child says what number they have then they
count out that number with whatever you have chosen for them to use.
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Easter Science Activity- Submitted by Sherry
Raw eggs, glass container, vinegar
Teachers place a raw egg in a glass container filled with vinegar. The vinegar will slowly dissolve the shell and rubberize the egg. Have the children observe changes daily.
In about 2 days the shell will disappear. In about 3 days, take the egg out and have the children hold it. How does it feel?
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Easter Grass- Submitted by Sherry
Enjoy the wonders of spring by growing your own Easter Grass. You can grow
it in your Easter basket!
Cellophane or piece of plastic,
Grass seed, rye seed or wheat seed,
Vermiculite,
Basket to grow it in,
Clean spray bottle,
Water,
a Sunny window
Cut your cellophane or plastic large enough to line the basket plus
stick out over the top edge by about 1. If you use colored cellophane,
it adds a nice decoration to the edges of the basket. Make sure you use
one piece to prevent leaking. Fill with vermiculite. Vermiculite is much lighter than soil, and is available at gardening departments. It also stays moist easily.
Cover the top with the seed, sprinkle a 1/4 layer of vermiculite over
the seed, and water it with the spray bottle. Mist the seed every day.
In about 10 days you will have a good covering of grass, so start your
grass 10-12 days before Easter.
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Play Who stole the Egg?- Submitted by Sherry
Class: Who stole the egg from the Easter Basket?
Teacher: (Ann) stole the egg from the Easter Basket?
Ann: Who me?
Class: Yes you!
Ann: Couldn't be!
Class: Then who?
Ann: (Tommy) stole the egg from the Easter Basket?
Tommy: Who me?
Class: Yes you!
Tommy: Couldn't be!
Class: Then who? [Repeat]
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Roll the Egg- Submitted by Sherry
If you have more than one child it can be a race, or for one child you can time them. Place masking tape on the floor for the start and finish lines.
Place one plastic egg on the starting line for each child. Explain that
the object of the game is to roll the egg to the finish line with YOUR
NOSE. If they get too good, add a few obstacles, such as a chair to go
around, or tape a line for them to try to follow, be creative.
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What is in the Egg? - Submitted by Sherry
Place different objects inside plastic eggs. Have the children shake the
egss and try to guess what is inside. Open up the eggs:)
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Mystery Egg- Submitted by Sherry
Send a large plastic easter egg home with a child. Send a letter with the
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Egg Toss- Submitted by Sherry
Supply the children with plastic eggs and a easter basket. Place a piece
of masking tape on the floor for a throw line. the distance from the
basket to the line should vary with abilities. Have the children throw the
eggs into the basket.
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Bunny Bowling- Submitted by Sherry
Obtain 10 half gallon milk cartons, or 2 liter bottles. Fill the bottles
about 1/8 full with water and seal the lid. Then, decorate the bottles
like bunnies, adding construction paper ears, and use permanent markers
for the eyes and nose. Set the bottles up like they were bowling pins and
have the children roll a ball to try to knock them over. If they don't
knock over easily remove some of the water.
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Lacing Cards- Submitted by Sherry
Cut colored posterboard into a easter shape (egg, bunny, duck) and punch
holes around the edges. Them let your child lace yarn or a shoestring into
the cards.
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Stamping Patterns- Submitted by Sherry
Use Easter Theme rubber stamps to create a simple patterm on the top half
of a piece of paper. Ask your child to help you recreate the patterm on
the bottom half of the paper. Tip: Start with one stamp, and have your
child pick which stamp you used. Start slowly and work your way up to more
complicated patterns.
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Easter Egg Balance- Submitted by Sherry
Supply the children with plastic eggs and a balance to play with.
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Sand Egg Hunt- Submitted by Sherry
Hide plastic eggs in the sand table for the children to find.
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Bunny Hop Race- Submitted by Sherry
Have the children race by hopping like bunnies or waddleing like ducks.
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Cognitive Activities- Submitted by Sherry
Give the children a plastic egg, small baby chick toy and easter grass. Have the children put the grass and chick inside and close the egg. Seems simple, but the kids love it!
Place about 20 jelly beans in a jar and have kids estimate how many are in the jar. Have them count to see how close they were.
Provide several egg cutouts with various patterns drawn on them. Make sure you make two of each. Have the children match the pairs.
Provide an egg carton and a dozen plastic eggs. Have the children count the eggs as they place them in the slots.
Place a pile of carrots on the table and have the children guess how many are in the pile. Encourage the children to count to see if they were correct.
Provide paper bunnies in three sizes. Encourage the children to arrange them from smallest to largest.
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Egg Pass- Submitted by Sherry
Have the children sit in a circle. Give each child a plastic spoon. Have one child be the starter and give them a a plastic egg. Have the children pass around the egg using the spoons.
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Pin the Tail on the Bunny- Submitted by Sherry
Play Pin the Tail on the Bunny using a bunny cutout and a cotton ball with masking tape attached.
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Eggspirament- Submitted by Sherry
Place a boiled egg and a raw egg on the table. Ask the children if they can figure out which egg is cooked. Encourage them to compare the color, weight, and by shaking. Spin the egg. Does one wobble more than the other. Crack them both open and see if they were correct.
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Drop the Carrot- Submitted by Sherry Buy a real carrot and have your students seated in a circle. One student gets to hold the carrot and hop around the outside of the circle. At some point, they drop the carrot into the lap of one of the students in the circle and hop quickly away. The student who now has the carrot hops around the circle chasing the first child who is hopping to try and get back into the students seat before being caught.
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Jelly Bean Bingo- Submitted by Sherry
Make Jellybean Bingo cards for practice in color recognition. Draw one jellybean in each square (or you could draw a pile all one color) and color it. Call out the colors, and if a student has a jellybean that color on their card, then they place a jellybean on it. The first person to cover their card wins! Of course, everyone gets to eat their jellybeans at the end.
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Egg Graph- Submitted by Sherry
Graph each student’s favorite way to eat eggs … fried, scrambled, boiled, deviled, poached, egg salad
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Jellybean Graph- Submitted by Sherry
Give each student a small ziploc bag of jellybeans and a graph and have them graph the jellybeans in their bag.
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Egg Surprise- Submitted by Sherry
Fill an Easter basket with plastic eggs. Place inside of each egg a slip of paper with a review question for skills that your class has covered through out the year. *****
Easter Egg Bingo- Submitted by Sherry
Make Easter Egg bingo cards by drawing an Easter egg in each box of the bingo card. If you have access to them, Ellison has a die-cut that makes the right size ovals for eggs. Cut the eggs from pastel colors and glue them onto the cards. Program each egg with a letter. You can use all capital letters, all lowercase letters, or a mixture of both. The students can use any kind of Easter candy as markers: jellybeans, M&Ms, etc.
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The Bunny Hop- Submitted by Sherry
Discuss with your students that bunnies hop to get from one place to another. Using masking tape, mark off several one foot sections on the floor. Let each student take a turn seeing how far they can hop. Have the rest of the students record each student’s hop on a graph. Afterwards discuss the results of the graph.
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Egg Science- Submitted by Patrisha
Talk about the parts of an egg - Shell, membrane, albumen, yolk, and germ spot. Crack open some real eggs into plastic bowl and find all the parts. Try some simple egg experiments such as spinning an egg to find out if it is raw or hard-boiled. You might also try floating an egg in plain water and then in salt water (salt water makes the egg buoyant so it floats).
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Who's Hatching Today?- Submitted by Patrisha
Display a large egg shape and each day hide a picture of a different animal underneath. Give the children three clues about the animal and have them guess the animal of the day.
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Egg Guess- Submitted by Patrisha
Put several small objects in different plastic eggs. Tape them closed and set them on a tray. Encourage the children to shake the eggs and listen carefully to the sound in each one. Try to figure out what is in each one.After several days talk about the possibilities and then open them up to see the real objects.
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Easter Bunny "Skipping Game"- Submitted by Patrisha
1 Easter Basket (A lightweight, DEEP basket works best),
1 Dozen Plastic Eggs (The fillable kind, but leave them empty),
1 Bunny Ears Headband (I make a white headband, and attach 2 pink "ears" made from construction paper),
1 Record or Tape of any Easter Bunny song (such as "Here Comes Peter Cottontail")
How to play the game: All children stand in a large circle. Choose one child to be the "Easter Bunny". This child puts on the "ears", and gets the Easter basket which is filled with the plastic eggs. While the record or tape is played, the "Easter Bunny" skips around inside the circle of children, and hands out the eggs. As a child receives an egg from the Bunny, he/she joins the Bunny in skipping in the circle . The Bunny continues to pass out eggs,and is joined by the recipients, until the record is over. If the Bunny passes out all of the eggs before the song is done , the Bunny and egg holders just keep skipping to the music until it is over.
The children love playing this simple game , and it is great for practicing the gross motor skill of skipping. The Bunny could also hop, if you prefer to practice that skill, but the egg recipients should skip to keep the game moving. Variation: This same game can be played for other holidays as well. Only the record/tape and the props have to be changed to fit the new holiday theme.
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Bunny Buzz- Submitted by Patrisha
To Play: All players sit in a circle. Players take turns counting off numbers in turn: 1,2,3,4.... when the number seven is reached, that player must say, "I love the Easter Bunny", instead of seven. When she fails to do so and says seven, she is out of the game. The game continues until only one player is left to be declared the winner.
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Bunny Flop- Submitted by Patrisha
Equipment: 10 stiff paper rabbits. To play: This game may be played individually or in small teams. Cut 10 rabbits, about 8 cm in size, from stiff paper. Leave about a 3 or 4 cm tab at the bottom so the rabbits will stand when the tabs are bent. Space the rabbits out in a long row on the floor. Each child gets on her hands and knees and sees how many rabbits she can blow over with one breath.
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Button Bunnies- Submitted by Patrisha
Make paper rabbits with numbers on their stomachs and cover with clear adhesive plastic. Pass out rabbits to children and have them put as many buttons on the stomach as shown by the numeral. Pass rabbits to the left and repeat.
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Number Guess- Submitted by Patrisha
Say "I'm thinking of a number that tells me how many ears a bunny has....a number that tells me how many paws a rabbit has....." Have children answer the questions
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Matching Baskets- Submitted by Patrisha
Set out baskets filled with straw or grass, clipping a number on the front of each basket. Children place appropriate number of plastic eggs in each basket.
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Bunny Game (like Cootie)- Submitted by Patrisha
Make bunny faces for four children out of construction paper. The bunny needs a white head, two white ears with pink inside, and two eyes made of any color. The nose is a black circle on a pink oval with black whiskers drawn on. The mouth is a black smile shape with two large white teeth. You can make a bow tie for each bunny out of yellow. Laminate all pieces. The object of the game is to make a bunny face. Using a die, for each number rolled you get a piece of the bunny's face. For example, roll a one and get a head, roll a two and get an ear, roll a three and get an eye, roll a four and get a nose, roll a five and get a mouth and roll a six and get the tie. Keep rolling until all have created a bunny.
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Cardboard Egg Hop Game- Submitted by Patrisha
Draw and cut out two large cardboard eggs. Decorate them with paint, markers, or crayons. Have each player choose a partner and give each pair of players two eggs. To play: In each pair, there is a hopper and a helper. Starting at one end of the room, the helper places an egg on the floor in front of the hopper, who hops onto it with both feet. The helper then places the other egg a little way ahead and the hopper jumps onto it. This continues until the pair gets to the end of the room. Now players change roles. The first pair back to the starting line wins. If you don't want it to be a competition, young children have fun just hopping.
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Hide-An-Egg- Submitted by Patrisha
My big thing now is to hide a plastic egg full of jellybeans (1 egg for each child) around my home. The little ones get the easiest eggs to find. When the child finds his egg, he can eat the jellybeans inside. I plan to do this nearly each day, until Easter.
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Match the Sounds- Submitted by Patrisha
Put the same object in two or more eggs. Put them all in egg cartons. Let the children match the sounds and put them near each other in the cartons.
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Basketful of Eggs- Submitted by Patrisha
Have a big basket full of large and small plastic egg halves. Set it on a table. Let the children put the eggs together and take them apart. After several days collect small objects that will fit inside the eggs. Put them in a container and set them next to the basket. Let the children mix and match the objects and eggs as they choose. Later, add several empty egg cartons to the activity. Get several large spoons. Use masking tape to make start and finish lines. Let the children put eggs
on their spoons and walk as quickly as they can from one line to another.
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Pin the Tail on the Bunny- Submitted by Patrisha
Just like the donkey birthday game, we played the bunny version, and blind folded the kids , (good for 4's and 5's) spun them around, and using a cotton ball with tape on it, they tried to put the bunnies tail on. We didn't do any type of reward to the one getting the closest, just had fun watching the kids try to put it on!
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Another version of an Easter Egg Hunt- Submitted by Patrisha
Since the children are searching always for eggs and candy, and by Sunday are usually up to their noses in it, I came up with an idea a couple of years ago to have a color crayon hunt. We decorate plain lunch sack bags for our baskets, and then I go out and sprinkle the ground with new color crayons, (there are generic brands out there that you can purchase at a good price and get quite a lot of crayons) . The children have fun going out and searching for the crayons. Then I make up coloring books. Each child then gets to take home an Easter coloring book and new crayons to color from me. I usually do this late Friday afternoon.
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Un-Traditional Easter Hunt- Submitted by Patrisha
For the young hunters, tie Marshmallow Peeps® together with string and weave a trail throughout the house and grounds leading to the treasure.
The romantic would love to follow a trail of flower petals.
For the safari kids, leave a trail of stuffed animals they can collect and put in their baskets to cuddle with later.
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Science Activities- Submitted by Lisa in VA
Place a raw egg in a glass container filled with vinegar. The vinegar will slowly dissolve the shell and rubberize the egg. Have the children observe changes daily. In about 2 days the shell will disappear. In about 3 days, take the egg out and have the children hold it. How does it feel?
Dye easter eggs using store bought dye or make your own, using teabags, cranberries, etc.
Place a boiled egg and a raw egg on the table. Ask the children if they can figure out which egg is cooked. Encourage them to compare the color, weight, and by shaking. Spin the egg. Does one wobble more than the other. Crack them both open and see if they were correct.
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Bunnies- Submitted by Sherry
Learn about the rabbit family. Have pictures of different types of bunnies (lop eared, angora, hares, etc) Discuss the care a pet rabbit would need. If possible, visit a pet store that has real rabbits for adoption.
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Sorting Jellybeans- Submitted by Lisa in VA
Each child will need an empty egg carton and a handful of jellybeans. (I know that it is unsafe to use old egg cartons, so my thought is to you plastic ice trays for activities that call for egg cartoons.) Have the children place the jellybeans into individual egg cups according to color. The children can count how many beans of each color are in the cups.
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Graphing Jellybeans- Submitted by Lisa in VA
Have the children tell you their favorite jellybeans. Ask them favorite flavor and/or color. Make a graph on bulletin board paper for all to see. Also have graph paper for students to make a bar graph of the results. I would also try making a line graph and plot the dots to show them 3 different kinds of graphs.
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Making Patterns- Submitted by Lisa in VA
Have students glue jellybeans or paper jellybeans onto craft sticks following a pattern.
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Musical Jellybeans- Submitted by Lisa in VA
This is just like musical chairs. Put large jellybean shapes on the floor; one for each child. Take one a way until only one is left.
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Jelly, Jelly, Bean- Submitted by Lisa in VA
Play Duck, Duck, Goose only use words Jelly, Jelly, Bean.
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Jellybean Toss- Submitted by Lisa in VA
Put out cups or lids. They may need to be weighted down. Divide students up into two teams. Have students take turns tossing a jellybean into the cup. Give each color a number value. Add together the jellybeans that make it into the cup. Some of the colors could have a negative value where the number had to be subtracted. Play once where greatest number wins. Play again where least number wins. If you did not want to use jellybeans, lima beans could be spray painted and used. Then saved for another year.
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Spoon and Egg Relay- Submitted by Christi
Gather a spoon and a plastic or hard-boiled egg for each child. Set up a
course throughout the house or outdoors. Once a child is part way through
the course, allow another child to start. Personally, I don´t make a race
of this game because the children just enjoy getting through the maze. A
variation of this game is to push the eggs with their noses or feet.
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Click on the Easter Bunny Below to go back
Your egg you can't find
Somebody has it,
check behind,
This month we are going to be playing a game called Mystery Egg every
day. I am sending the egg home with your child. Please help your child
find something to place inside the egg and return it tommorrow with three
clues written on a piece of paper. The children will try to guess what it
is and the first person to guess correctly will take home the egg.
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