Easter has come and gone, but you still probably have oodles of plastic eggs laying around your house. Don’t throw them away. In fact, you might want to grab some on clearance! They can be great for learning games, crafts, and activities! Here are 20 (non-Easter) plastic egg activities…
Make a numbered snake by threading the tops of plastic eggs.
Use the eggs to stamp designs with paint.
Make a chunky “jewel” necklace with Easter Eggs and some packing plastic!
Here are several other ideas from other bloggers:
Red Ted Art shares how to create maracas using eggs. This tutorial using real egg shells, but you could just as easily use the plastic eggs.
Make this Number Match Activity from PlayDrMom.
This Early Spelling Game from The Good Long Road looks like lots of fun!
Creative Connections for Kids shares how to use eggs as scoops in a sensory tub.
Do some egg crack painting with Crayon Freckles!
Motherhood on a Dime shares an Easter Egg “Sound Match” activity.
Create a Color Sorting Activity with Motherhood on a Dime.
Here Comes the Girls shows how to use plastic Easter Eggs as molds for Fizzy Bath Bombs.
MemeTales shares an idea for using plastic Easter Eggs to learn antonyms!
Child Central Station shares Easter Egg Caterpillars.
This gross motor game from A Mom with a Lesson Plan uses plastic bottles and plastic Easter eggs to make a tossing game.
Match Upper and Lowercase Letters with Easter Eggs (via Scribble Doodle and Draw)!
Tinkerlab shares a fun idea for creating Rolled Easter Egg Paintings!
Frugal Fun for Boys shares another Easter Egg Shaker Match-Up Game.
Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas shares a fun Sight Word Egg Hunt idea.
Another fun learning idea…Word Family Eggs (via Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas).
Create this fun garden math game from Family Your Way (via Kristina at Toddler Approved).
What other ways do you enjoy reusing plastic Easter eggs? Leave a link in the comments!
Great list! Thanks for including me. :)
Hi there, These are so wonderful! I love the variety of ideas. Just wanted to share a couple of my inexpensive DIY learning ideas from my blog. I featured two learning activities with plastic eggs. Like us on Facebook for my latest posts too. :) Thank you! -Deborah
http://www.fortheloveoflearningblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/spring-easter-sensory-bin-learning.html
http://www.fortheloveoflearningblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/color-matching-activity-total-cost-1-to.html
What a fabulous round up of ideas! Thanks for sharing our caterpillars!
Love this list!
I am a teacher. We have been working with counting change in the classroom. I plan on using some of my eggs to put change in and have students determine the amount in the egg. Thinking it can be called eggstra change.
I used plastic “scrambled” eggs in the classroom. I put pieces of paper with students scrambled spelling words in each egg. In the past students went on an egg hunt to find the eggs and then came back to the classroom to unscramble them. This year the eggs were in egg cartons for each of my spelling groups with a Starburst inside that they got to eat once they unscrambled their word.
Thank you for sharing our antonyms post!
I love the variety of ideas :)
What a great list. I loved seeing how creative everyone is. Thanks for including us too!
I somehow forgot to comment on this last year but thanks for including mine in the round up.
I am a music teacher and I love using Easter plastic eggs for educational ideas and games around this time. I love your post! I especially like the word family game!
Maria
http://www.musicteachingandparenting.com
Awesome toy activities for kid
My son really like the Kinder Egg
Will play with him after read this post
Thanks