Easter eggs numbers addition and number recognition

We are in the Easter mood around here and so we are trying incorporate the excitement into our learning. 

In this math activity we used plastic Easter eggs, Jelly Beans, eraser board and erasable markers.

I filled up the plastic eggs with random amount of jelly beans and placed them into our math workbox. 

The boys had to open two eggs at a time, write the amount of the first one, write the plus sign and then write the second number... trying to keep the numbers on the red line. Then they had to add the amounts and write the result. 

Are you asking if they got to eat their props? Of course they did, but not till all their problems were finished ;-)

I love activities that get to be put together in just a short time with things you can find around the house. 

...and look what we did for the little preschoolers:

Number Recognition

Fill up the Easter eggs with Jelly beans so that each of them has the same amount of the jelly beans as it is written on each nota card.

Have the kids line up the card in the right numeric order first. Then have them open one egg at a time and have them place the jelly beans on the correct note card with the same number as the amount of jelly beans they opened.

This is how it should look when finished.

Have fun! 

Coloring Easter eggs the natural way

Last year, I tried to look for some natural ways of egg coloring. I decided to share this with you, so you can color your eggs this year and actually eat them as well!

Here is our work station (check lower for details on what I used):

Blueberries would give me the purple colored egg.

Onion peels always end up in rustic colored eggs. 

I was hoping for orange color while using sweet pepper spice in this pot.

Could grass help me achieve a green colored egg?

I decided to try leaf prints on the green colored eggs...

During the process...

I left it boiling for about 15 minutes.

And here is the result:

By far my favorite were the blueberries and onion peels. What didn't work at all? The grass... The eggs colored very lightly. And the leaves ended up sliding off the eggs so next time I have to secure them better.

Do you have a natural way of egg coloring? Please feel free to share and attach your link to your comment!

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Easter egg pattern

I picked these Easter eggs in the dollar store knowing that we can put them to some good use! I thought the preschoolers are ready to learn some serious pattern making. We gave them each two different egg colors. 

To help them figure out the point of pattern making, put few eggs in a row in the desired pattern. Say the colors out loud and let them tell you, which color comes next.

Let them possibly put some more in by themselves...