Before you pack those colorful eggs away for next year, use them for some of these plastic egg activities.

Plastic Egg Activities

There are so many fun ways to use those colorful eggs!   Every year we use our plastic eggs to work on math and reading skills.

They are great for hands-on learning.

Below you will find activities for math, reading, and STEM.

Math Activities with Plastic Eggs

Easter Egg Math Hunt — Elementary kids will have fun with this scavenger hunt idea.  

Color Matching Easter Egg Activity:   Toddlers can work on colors with this simple plastic egg game.

Preschooler Plastic Eggs Activities:  Toddlers and preschoolers will love using those plastic eggs for sorting, patterns, and even a memory game.

Number Recognition:   Here is a super easy to set up idea to work on number skills with your toddler or preschooler.

Plastic Egg Counting:  Use those eggs to work on counting and one-to-one correspondence with this simple activity.

Patterning Activity:  There are lots of ways to use those leftover plastic eggs to work on patterning skills.

Plastic Egg Addition Game:  Help children understand how to set up and solve equations with this printable game.

DIY Nesting Math Eggs:  So much more fun than flashcards!  Your child will love solving the math problem and then opening the egg to check their answers with this plastic egg math activity.

Multiplication Eggs:   Older kids can use those eggs to work on math skills, like multiplication facts.

Reading Activities with Plastic Eggs

Easter Egg Alphabet Order Game :   This is a fun way for your preschooler to have fun working on ABC order.

Sight Word Sensory Bin :  Younger siblings will enjoy this easy to set up sensory bin, and early readers will have fun using it to work on sight word skills.

Easter Egg Phonics:  Work on CVC words and more with this phonics activity.

Sight Word Egg Hunt:  Create your very own sight word hunt like this one found.

Egg Scavenger Hunt to Make Words:  Make spelling practice more fun with this idea.

Plastic Egg Contractions :   This plastic egg activity  is such a great way to help early readers understand contractions.

Simple Name Game:  Help your toddler identify the letters of their name with this simple activity.

STEM Activities with Plastic Eggs  

Plastic Egg Submarines:   Work on making predictions and learn about what makes objects sink and float by making your very own submarines with this science activity. 

Egg Tower:  How tall of a tower can your child make?

Egg Maracas: Here’s a fun STEAM activity that is perfect for little ones.

This year, after all the egg hunts are finished, send the kids on one final hunt for those colorful eggs.  Then use them in a few of these plastic egg activities.

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Several months ago my daughter decided to empty her piggy bank, all over the floor.  Somehow the pennies got put into a bucket instead of back in the pig, and they’ve been dumped a number of times since.  I decided this week it was a good time to wrap up those pennies.  And it just seemed natural to work on counting skills with the pennies, too!

I started off by showing her the penny wrappers.  I explained that we were going to put 50 pennies into each one.

Because she learned to count by 10’s in kindergarten, I decided to have her first count out the pennies into groups of 10.

She counted most of the pennies out one at a time, but I did show her how we could count them out by 2’s as well.  (That’s a skill we will work on this year in first grade!)

Once we had our groups of 10, I asked her to count to 50 by 10’s, moving our piles in a line as she counted.

I started the roll off for her.  Those things can be tricky!

And then she placed the rest of the pennies, one at a time, into the roll.  (Great practice for fine motor coordination!)

Once we had several penny rolls filled, I showed her how many rolls made 100 pennies.  Then we talked about the fact that there are 100 pennies in a dollar.

I love that she thought she was rich when she saw she had two dollars worth of pennies!

We counted out five dollars worth of pennies before she lost interest.

That’s a lot of counting!

I did try counting pennies out with the 5 year-old, but he wasn’t quite as interested.  He did count out one roll’s worth, though, with some help.

It was great practice for one to one correspondence when it comes to counting.  (Which he needs to work on!)

Keep in mind if you choose to count with pennies that they can be a choking hazard for little ones that still put small objects in their mouths!  From what I observed with my own children, it may work best for those who are in kindergarten or are older.

When counting you could try counting by ones (working on that one to one correspondence), or you could count by 2’s.  Then use your piles of 10 to count by 10’s.  You could even count by 10’s to 100 and divide the piles in half to fill the rolls!

Feel like doing extra math?  Take a couple piles and add them together!  What’s 10+10?

Keep it fun and they won’t even know you’re sneaking in some math practice!

Happy counting!

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