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Plastic Egg Learning Activity: Contractions

March 22, 2019 by OneMommy

My seven year-old has been working on learning contractions lately.   She learns best with hands-on activities, so I knew we needed a fun activity to teach contractions.

To reinforce what she has been learning, I came up with this simple learning activity with plastic eggs.

teaching contractions plastic egg activity

 

We have used plastic eggs for so many learning activities over the years.

My son loved making plastic egg submarines, and this simple contractions activity helped my daughter quickly learn those tricky words.

Plastic Egg Activity to Teach Contractions

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Materials Needed:

  • Plastic Eggs
  • Black Permanent Marker
  • Strips of Paper

To set up the activity, use a black permanent marker to write the two words that form a contraction on each of the plastic eggs.  (You could also use masking tape on the eggs if you don’t want to write on them, but I have found hand sanitizer cleans the marker right off afterwards.)

Then cut strips of paper and write the matching contraction for each egg.

 

learning activity with plastic eggs

 

 

How to Teach Kids Contractions

We did several activities with our plastic eggs.

First, I had her read each plastic egg and then put the corresponding contraction inside the right egg.  This helped reinforce what each contraction stands for.

The next time we played, the contractions were already tucked inside the eggs.

Again I had her read each egg.  This time she guessed what the contraction would be aloud.  Then she opened the egg to see if she was correct.

Then, she wrote the contraction down on her paper.  This reinforced not only what the correct contractions were, but also helped her work on spelling them correctly.

 

learning contractions with plastic eggs

 

Finally, I put all our eggs in a container.

When I called out a contraction, she had to choose the right egg.  When she opened it up she found the strip of paper to check and see if she had chosen the right egg.

 

game to work on contractions using plastic eggs

 

There are so many fun plastic egg activities for kids.

Using the eggs in this activity to teach contractions helped my daughter better understand what each contraction stood for.

 

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Originally published on March 25, 2015.

Filed Under: Language Arts Tagged With: Easter, making learning fun, plastic eggs, sight word game

Comments

  1. susen @Dabbling Momma says

    March 27, 2015 at 10:29 pm

    fun way to learn contractions!! I love plastic egg activities. Thanks for sharing at our FB Share Day!

    • OneMommy says

      March 31, 2015 at 11:01 pm

      It is amazing to me how many different ways you can use those eggs in learning activities!

  2. Ashley Mullen says

    March 28, 2015 at 10:23 am

    This is a great idea! I’m gonna pin it for when I start teaching these to my daughter. Thanks for sharing.

    • OneMommy says

      March 31, 2015 at 10:59 pm

      We have used them several times this week — and it really is helping them click for her!

      Thanks for pinning!

  3. Mandee says

    April 1, 2015 at 10:12 am

    Great idea! Thanks for sharing the different ways you used these. I have an almost 7 year old, and we have been doing contractions as well. We will give this a try! Thanks for sharing!

    • OneMommy says

      April 15, 2015 at 10:31 pm

      Making learning fun is always the way to go! 🙂 Enjoy!

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