Tired of plastic Easter eggs?
Don’t put them away just yet!
Easter eggs are an amazing tool, because they can open, come apart or stay linked, come in various colors, shapes and sizes, be used as scoops or shakers and more!
Here’s a sensory bin that develops STEM skills by letting them experience the power (and fun) of magnets!
I started out with some green Easter grass and a bag of this pastel colored crinkle paper from the dollar tree.
Next I added some cute little sparkle eggs from dollar tree…
…and Easter eggs filled with the little magnets…
…that will now “magically” rise to meet the magnet wand!
You can get these great magnet wands and little magnets online – here’s a link to one on Amazon
Add some fine motor tools for more opportunity for development…
…and away we go!
He was excited because he loves to open Easter eggs…
…but he was SO excited to find there were little science surprises inside!
They, of course, had to immediately be dumped lol
but oh the fascination when I showed him the special way we could pick them up!
Magnets are such a cool way to include STEM in your sensory table!
You can introduce words/phrases like force, magnetic force, attraction etc.
and explain that magnets have a “magnetic force” that is SO strong…
…that they will stick together!
And this “attraction” is so strong that it can move the little magnets across the table
and pull them out from where they are hiding in the grass…
and from their hiding places inside the eggs!
This sensory bin was a major win – hours of entertainment😁
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