PAPER-DYED
EGGS
| Help your children use these methods for
coloring hard-cooked eggs. |
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Paint eggs with water and cover with small pieces of
colored tissue paper. As the eggs dry, the tissue pieces
will fall off, leaving faint, pastel patterns. |
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Cover eggs with squares of crepe paper and secure with
rubber bands. Paint the covered eggs with water and allow
them to dry. Remove the paper to reveal unique designs.
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EGGSHELL
ART
Save, wash, and dry white and colored eggshells. Crush
the shells and place the pieces in small containers. Cut
construction paper into seasonal shapes, such as flowers,
eggs, or bunnies. Set out the shapes along with glue and
cotton swab applicators. Then invite your children to
decorate the shapes by gluing on the eggshell pieces any
way they wish. |
ALPHABET EGGS
| Cut egg
shapes out of heavy paper. Print uppercase alphabet
letters on half of the shapes and matching lowercase
letters on the other half. Place the uppercase-letter
eggs in a box and hand out the lowercase-letter eggs
to your children. As you remove each uppercase egg from
the box, display it and have the child holding the matching
lowercase egg bring it to you. Continue until all the
letters have been matched. |
| PLASTIC
EGG LEARNING GAMES |
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Count with your children
while putting eggs into the cups of an egg carton and
taking them out again. |
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Set out small, medium,
and large eggs. Invite the children to sort the eggs into
three baskets by size. |
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Fill pairs of eggs with
small objects, such as pennies, dried beans, paper clips,
and jingle bells. Seal the eggs closed. Let the children
shake the eggs to discover the pairs with matching sounds. |
HATCHING CHICK PUZZLES
Divide a piece of paper into four equal squares, and fill the
squares with these pictures: a hen sitting on a nest, an egg
in the nest, the egg beginning to crack, a chick hatching from
the egg. Make duplicated copies of the paper for your group.
Let the children color their papers, if desired, and help them
cut their papers into the four squares. Then invite them to
arrange their squares in the order in which a chick hatches
from an egg.
COLORED
EGGS
Tune: "Jingle Bells"
Colored eggs, colored eggs,
See them all around.
Red eggs, blue eggs, yellow eggs,
See them on the ground.
Colored eggs, colored eggs,
Green and purple, too.
Let's go hunt for colored eggs,
Eggs for me and you.
Place red, blue, yellow, green, and purple egg shapes
around the room. Invite your children to search for
the eggs and place them in six baskets that you have
marked with matching colored ribbons. |
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THE LITTLE EGG
Once there was a little egg, that sat upon a wall.
Soon he started to wobble, then he started to fall.
He cried out for help, as down, down, he fell.
I grabbed him in my hand, so he didn’t crack his shell.
But later, when he thought his troubles were at an end,
My mother cracked him in a bowl, I watched him drop right in.
This story has a sad end, for the little egg any way.
But as for my family, he brightened up our day!
Jean Warren
(Encourage your children to discuss what mother might have been cooking.)
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I WISH I WERE A TEENY TINY EGG
Tune: "If You're Happy and You Know It"
Oh, I wish I were a teeny tiny egg.
Oh, I wish I were a teeny tiny egg.
I would roll and roll around,
Rolling all around the ground.
Oh, I wish I were a teeny tiny egg.
Let your children roll around like little eggs as you sing.
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EGG
SNACKS
Try one of these suggestions at snacktime.
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Make egg salad to serve in lettuce cups or in sandwiches. |
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Let your children help make deviled eggs. |
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Offer scrambled eggs with toast triangles. |
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