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If you are looking for something to do with all those plastic eggs, you can use a few of them to create these plastic egg activities. It was designed to be played by young children, but you will probably come up with fun ways to play this game with older children.

How to Put the Plastic Egg Activities Together

Counting Numbers

You will need to print out the Chick and Egg Muffin Tin Counting Numbers. They should fit into a standard twelve cup muffin tin.

Plastic Eggs with Number Dots

Then you will need to get the plastic eggs ready. You will only use the large top section from a plastic egg for the Easter egg game. You can use the bottom section of the eggs to make plastic egg parachutes.

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The dots will need to hole punched out of the felt to placed on the plastic eggs. You may need a strong hole punch like the Power Punch to cut through thick pieces of felt.

There will need to be dots placed on each of the ten eggs. The first egg top will have one dot glued onto it. You will glue ten dots onto the last egg top.

You may be thinking why not just draw the dots on the egg tops with a marker. I thought children would like being able to touch each dot as they counted them on each section. The felt dots will also add texture and a raised surface for kids to touch while counting.

How to Play the Plastic Egg Activities

There are a number of different ways that your children can play this game. It will be up to you to decide if you want to play one of the versions I came up with or one of your own.

Game Ideas:

You can have you or your children pick a number. Then you can have your children cover the chick and number circle in the muffin tin with egg section with that number of dots on it.
Children can cover the numbers in order from one to 10 with the egg sections that displays that number.
You can stack the egg sections in an unnumbered muffin section or sections. They can work through the stack or stacks by placing egg tops on the correct number.

This activity was created to go along with book Peep and Egg: I’m Not Hatching by Laura Gehl. Here are some more chick and egg activities”

There are have been a number of Easter crafts for kids shared here JDaniel4’s Mom. I have also shared some on other blogs as guest posts. Each was simple to construct and used items many of us have in our craft closets at home. They were designed for preschool or early childhood children to create. Although I am sure that older children would enjoy making them too. I thought you would enjoy getting to see my favorites all together.

Easter Crafts for Kids

LEGO Easter Egg

LEGO make great tools for illustrating all sorts of holiday themes. Children can come up with the subject of their creation on their own or they could be asked to create something in particular. An Easter egg with repeating stripes could be something they could be asked to make. (Patterning is not only a wonderful craft theme it also allows kids to work on a math concept.)

The great thing about LEGO crafts is that they are not permanent. They can be created or uncreated by its artist over and over again.

Creating a Patterned Egg and Recording Its Shapes

Last year my son and I worked on another craft with patterned eggs. He placed pre-cut shapes all over a blue Easter egg. Then he recorded how many of each shape he used. This was activity not only created a beautifully crafted egg, but the opportunity to work on shape identification.

Torn Paper Chick

It is really fun to tear the paper you are going to use in a craft. The process of tearing is also are great fine motor activity. The actual tearing done for this craft actually took some thought and concentration. We were trying to create the shapes needed to create the various parts of the chick.

Bunny Bags

My son helped me decorate bunny bags to hold special rabbit cookie bars we made to take to his teachers at school. I just love the eyebrows and freckles that he added to his bunnies. Easter crafts for kids become unique and special when kids bring their own whimsy and creativity to them. This bag project illustrates that truth beautifully.

Doily Chick

Egg shaped doilies made the cutest Easter chicks. This simple craft looks kind of elegant with its the frilly shape cutouts. It was really fun to make a chicken out of an egg.

Cereal Box Patterned Egg

Cardboard from an old cereal box was used to create line patterns that could be draw on an Easter egg along with an egg template. All the templates could be placed in a writing or art center for children to create their own special Easter egg. We used crayons for this fine motor exercise. Your children may prefer color pencils or markers.

Easter Crafts I Made For Others

Tin Foil Easter Egg

Special markers and cookies cutters were used to decorate a tin foil egg I shared on Instead of the Dishes. Kids will love decorating a cardboard egg covered in foil with an Easter theme the way we did.

Paper Plate Bunny

A paper plate, felt, and some pipe cleaners were all we needed to create a paper plate bunny for Kids Activity Blog. The felt nose, ears, eyes and mouth give the bunny a soft and fuzzy texture. The ruffled edges of the paper plate gave his chin texture too.

If your children create any of these Easter crafts for kids, please leave me a comment below or leave me a comment on my Facebook page.If you take a picture of your version of one of the crafts and share it on Instagram, please tag me. I would love to see it.