Happy Easter Themed Cite Sensory Dig For Preschoolers
November 30, 2018
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Last calendar week was all well-nigh bunnies in addition to nosotros did a Bunny Color Hop game for Preschoolers! We also kicked off our 10 Days of Simple Toddler Activities Challenge and shared v days of fun ideas over on Instagram- I'm @kristinatoddlerapproved, if yous desire to come upwardly bring together us! (This post service contains Amazon Affiliate links for your convenience.)
This calendar week nosotros are reading Peep in addition to Egg: I'm Not Hatching yesteryear Laura Gehl in addition to doing chick in addition to egg themed activities! We ever honey finding elementary ways to play alongside our names, thus today nosotros are doing an Easter Egg Name Dig!
MATERIALS NEEDED:
- Your favorite sensory bin materials (we used rice crispies)
- cardboard or felt eggs
- foam alphabet stickers
- copy of Peep in addition to Egg: I'm Not Hatching yesteryear Laura Gehl
- large bin or pan to set the sensory items
- marker
- piece of paper
SET UP:
To fix this activeness nosotros started yesteryear pouring the rice crispies into the large container. We used an aluminum turkey pan.
Next nosotros added missive of the alphabet stickers onto our cardboard in addition to felt eggs. We set the letters inwards my son's advert on the eggs thus that each egg had a unlike missive of the alphabet on it.
Next, nosotros wrote my son's advert on a slice of colored paper.
To transcend away started doing the advert dig, I buried the eggs inwards the rice crispies. Then my boy dug some inwards the rice crispies to honor each of the eggs in addition to set them inwards advert enterprise on his slice of paper.
I had ii sets of eggs thus nosotros did this activeness several times alongside the unlike sets. He was thrilled every fourth dimension he establish an egg in addition to loved reminding me which letters they had on them in addition to thus spelling his name.
Simple activities similar this tin assistance kids piece of occupation on missive of the alphabet recognition, advert recognition, in addition to spelling. They also allow for some elementary fine motor skills piece of occupation every bit kids dig through the rice crispies in addition to carefully house the eggs inwards the spots where they belong. Since the eggs were unlike colors, nosotros also talked well-nigh the colors that nosotros establish spell nosotros played.
Learning doesn't bring to live on complicated. This activeness is a bully means to unwrap kids to the letters inwards their advert in addition to utter well-nigh them. I honor that kids honey activities that bring to create alongside their names because names are actually exceptional to preschoolers. Often I volition add together inwards my son's final advert to our activities every bit good because it is actually of import to him.
My son's flat at preschool has been working on names for awhile. They create the name, clap it, cheer it, etc. Sometimes when nosotros create elementary advert activities similar this nosotros create that too.
Once you're done doing this elementary Easter egg advert activity, grab Peep in addition to Egg: I'm Not Hatching yesteryear Laura Gehl in addition to read it together... in addition to thus scroll downwards to endeavor out some of the other awesome chick in addition to egg activities from our Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids co-hosts.
CHICK & EGG ACTIVITIES FROM OUR CO-HOSTS!
Easter Egg Alphabet Activity - Books in addition to Giggles
Easter Themed Name Sensory Dig for Preschoolers- Toddler Approved (here)
Counting Chicks Busy Bag - Views From a Step Stool
Easter Egg Game -Muffin Tin in addition to Egg Number Math from JDaniel4's Mom
Easter Eggs Number Puzzles - Sea of Knowledge
Egg Math Puzzles- Teach Beside Me
DIY Shaker Eggs
STEM Easter Egg Project alongside Crayons - The Educators' Spin On It
DIY Pom Pom in addition to felt chick - Rainy Day Mum
Move Like an Egg Story Time Movement Activity from My Storytime Corner