One of the great parts of doing homeschool for preschool is that any day can be time for school.
So today when I was cleaning up all the plastic eggs and thought about all the fun learning activities with plastic eggs there are, we got to have an impromptu math lesson.
Plastic Egg Math Activity
You can use any color or size egg for this activity.
I decided to pick out eggs in two different colors, yellow and orange.
Separate the eggs.
Then use a permanent marker to write numbers on half of each egg. On the other half of the egg put the corresponding number of dots. Don’t worry, rubbing alcohol will take off the permanent marker after you are finished.
Have your preschooler match the numbers up to the correct number of dots.
This plastic egg activity is a fun way to work on one-to-one correspondence and counting skills.
Snapping the eggs together is also a fun way to work on dexterity skills.
If your child is struggling with getting the eggs back together, have them try what my youngest preschooler did. Just stack the halves on top of each other.
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Ginny Marie says
Great idea! I think I need to take some plastic eggs to preschool tomorrow!
OneMommy says
Definitely check out what we did last year, too. 🙂 Have fun!
Dawn says
Great idea! We had a ton of plastic eggs this year. There was a local egg hunt for kids enrolled in our school district grades pre-k to 2nd grade. We had eggs all over the house even tho only one of my daughters was young enough to participate lol 🙂
Our kids are a little older for this one, but this is perfect for preschool age kids!
OneMommy says
Yes, these are definitely designed more for preschool, but I have seen some manipulatives with them for older kids.