Easter grass everywhere, plastic eggs still rolling around, jelly beans hidden away because you just can’t handle the sugar rush they cause any more….whatever can be done?!?!?!
Never fear!!!!! Ms. Jerica is here!!!!!
Here are 6 activities to put all those Easter leftovers to good, educational, and fun use!
Number 1!
Egg painting!
Super easy, fun for the kiddos, and it’s child-directed art meaning they get to express themselves!
And since it creates circles, you can use it for shapes lessons!
I’ve also used it for letter E week – E is for Egg!
Number 2!
Fine motor sensory bin!
I use this one all year round because it keeps them really busy!
The eggs are a great fine motor challenge as they try to open and close them, and they are perfect for practicing math concepts like empty and full with little puffballs…
…and the Easter grass creates this great 3-D texture that they have to dig through to reach the small, pinchable foam stars that they can pick up with either their fingers or with tweezer toys!
Number 3!
Egg ramp races!
This is a great STEM activity because it uses a simple machine (ramp), demonstrates gravity, and can be used for experiments using the scientific method!
For example: we compared the speed and distance traveled of different shapes of Easter eggs…
…and discovered the carrot went slower and the shortest distance…however the bunny made so many circles that it ended up going back and lining up perfectly with the carrot!
We then tested whether filling an egg with black beans and making it heavier would make it go faster or slower!
He made his hypothesis…(notice the use of math concepts empty and full!)
…and his hypothesis was correct!
Though we did discover that the empty egg went a lot further!
Number 4!
Check out our experiment with jelly beans and see how we used the scientific method in a chemistry experiment!
Number 5!
This is an awesome use of Easter eggs! You can put them in sensory bins and use them to practice matching letters, numbers, and shapes and even learn other languages!
Number 6!
Another great STEM activity that kept this guy busy for a long time! I put little magnets inside the eggs and we learned about “magnetic force!”
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