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Gross Motor Building Egg Carton Algorithm Activities

March 8, 2021 By Deirdre

This coding and gross motor activity set could be explore in the days leading up to Easter or during a farming unit or any time you like. There is a set of colored action eggs and a set of plain white eggs in the set. It will fun to see how they chose to perform each of the actions. A number of them can be demostrated in a variety of ways.

After creating one set of gross motor activities, it will be fun to build another. It will fun to see how many different algorithms you can build.

What is an algorithm?

An algorithm is a series of steps needed to complete a task. Computers follow algorithms step by step complete the actions and tasks we ask them to do. We can follow an algorithm too.

Downloading the Egg Carton Set

Building Egg Carton Algorithms set has been saved as a PDF. After downloading it, you will need to open it with a PDF reader. Many people like and use Acrobat Reader.

Getting the Gross Motor Egg Carton Algorithm Activities Ready

- - First, you will need to select the carton you wish your children to use.
  - Second, you will need to select the eggs you want your children to use.
  - Third, you will print out the carton and eggs you have selected.
  - Finally, you will need to laminate the carton and the individual eggs. This will allow you to use them over and over again.

Exploring the Algorithm Activities

Your children will need to cover each of the eggs in the bottom row with an action egg.
Then they will write the number of the times they will do each action on the egg right behind it in washable marker
Next, they will demonstrate their algorithm by doing the actions from left to right the number of times they said they would.
Once they have completed their algorithm, they can erase the numbers with a wet paper towel and remove the action eggs.
They are then ready to build a new algorithm.

If you like this coding activity, here are more you will love:

Three Pigs Blockly Block Worksheet

Magical Creatures STEM Coding Algorithm Drawing Activity

Drawing a Cat with a Looping Algorithm

How to Draw a Leprechaun with an Algorithm

8 Awesome Easter Crafts for Kids

March 30, 2015 By Deirdre

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.

Fine Motor Easter Craft

March 19, 2015 By Deirdre

This fine motor Easter activity uses an old cereal box cut into an egg shape and various line shapes for children to use to create and decorate an egg. The front and back panels of the box were the perfect size for the eggs we would need to create the templates. If you would like to replicate this Easter activity for your children at home or school, there are only a few things you will need to do.

How To Create The Easter Activity Templates

We started by cutting an egg shape out of white paper.
Then the front and back sections of the cereal box were cut out of the box. After the front and back sections were off the box, the flaps were cut off of their tops and bottoms.
The white paper egg shape was then traced onto the front and back sections of the cereal box. It was important to have the egg templates both be the same size.
One of the sections was left whole. The other section was cut out like a puzzle. The puzzle pieces had wavy, pointed and squared lines. When all the pieces were cut out, they could be slide back together like a puzzle. I wanted to make sure that children could place the puzzle pieces inside the egg and trace them it they wanted too.

Doing the Easter Activity

The first part of the activity is to trace the egg template onto a piece of white paper with a crayon.
Then the puzzle piece templates can be traced onto the outline of the egg. Children could use the puzzle piece that fits in that section of the egg or another piece if they like. They really isn’t a right or wrong way to add lines to the egg. Children could actually add horizontal lines rather than vertical lines. The idea is to add lines to decorate the eggs.

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If your children are having trouble gripping round crayons, you may want to try having them use Crayola Anti-Roll Triangular Crayons. They are easier for some children to color with. A pencil grip on a crayon might help too.

The egg we created doesn’t have the area between its lines colored in, but the egg would look great colored in.

The wax from previous tracings tends to smear onto the paper off of the puzzle pieces when you use the brown cardboard side of the box face down. The waxy side of the box with words and pictures doesn’t seem to smear as much or very little.

I have just shared a few ways that you could this activity. I bet you can come with a number of unique twists you can add to it to make them your own. If you do, please leave me a comment below or leave me a comment on my Facebook page.

If you are looking for some more learning based Easter activities, you will want to check out the following activities.

Cool Math for Kids- Easter Egg Learning

Dolch Sight Words- Unscrambling Eggs

Carrot Number Writing Activity

How to Make Spider Web Eggs

Science Experiment for Kids- Floating or Sinking Eggs

March 22, 2014 By Deirdre

It is egg experiment time at my house. Maybe it is Easter and the desire to dye eggs that lead us down the path of experimenting with eggs. This is the first of a series of posts on science experiments for kids that focuses on eggs. Each experiment we do will have a printable instruction/ recording sheet.

This particular experiment tests out whether adding salt to a glass of water will help the egg float or if it will sink to the bottom. That is why we called this science experiment for kids Egg Experiment: Sinking or Floating Eggs.

We started the experiment by gathering together the materials list on the instruction sheet. It didn’t take long there are only four items needed to do this experiment.

Here is what we did:

We added warm water to tall clear drinking glass. ( You could use a clear jar or bowl in place of a glass.) We went with tall glass to make sure that we would be able to easily see the egg floating if it did indeed float. Having a lot of water in the glass would help us do that.

We then carefully placed the uncooked eggs in the glasses. We were careful for two reasons. The first reason was that the eggs were uncooked. The second reason was that we didn’t want to displace too much water. (Yes, this turned into a lesson on how objects like hands take up space and can push water up.)

The egg in the unsalty water floated to the bottom and sat there. The egg placed in the salty water bobbed a little and then hung in the water. It just floated happily in the cup.

We took time to talk about how the salt had changed the water and why this change made the egg float. We each tried to tap the egg and see if tapping it would cause it to descend into the water. The egg went down a little, but then it rose again.

Why not add some of the salt water to the clear water glass we decided. Some of the clear water was poured from the clear water glass and we replaced it with some of the salty water. (I had read this might work.) It didn’t make the egg in the clear glass start floating.

We were left with several questions when we finished this activity.

If we added more salt to the salty glass, would the egg float higher?
If we had more salt in the salty glass then added that water to the clear glass, would the egg have floated?
Would a cooked egg float if placed in salt water?

These questions will be answered on another day. Instead of exploring them we decided to work on the bottom of the activity sheet instead. JDaniel and I composed a sentence orally describing the activity and he wrote it down. Then he drew a picture illustrating what had happened during the experiment.

Click on the links below to get your own copies of the Egg Experiment: Sinking or Floating Eggs sheets.

Science Experiment for Kids- Floating or Sinking Eggs

We will continue our science experiments for kids focusing on eggs series next week. I hope you will stop by and check out our next activity.

Science Experiment for Kids- Frying Eggs on the Driveway

July 1, 2012 By Deirdre

The last few days here in South Carolina have been so hot outside that you could fry an egg on the driveway. We decided that rather than just talk about the heat it would be fun actually try to fry two eggs out on road at the end of our driveway. It would be a fun science experiment for kids or at least my kid.

We researched the hottest part of the day. It turned out it would be over 101 degrees at 3:30 p.m so, we waited until 3:30 to start the science xperiment.

JDaniel thought my husband and I were a little crazy. People just don’t cook eggs outside he announced to us, but once we got outside he was really excited about seeing what would happen.

A little help was needed by JDaniel to open his egg so, he let my husband helped him crack the egg and spill its contents on the road.

We set the timer inside the house for ten minutes and waited to see if there would be a change. After ten minutes, there was just a little change. We headed back into the house and set the time for another ten minutes. When we check the eggs the second time with a finger test, the yolks were a little hard on the top.

JDaniel’s egg wasn’t hard enough to withstand the pressure that was placed on the egg during his finger pressure test. The yolk split open and oozed all over its egg white.

We headed off to the YMCA to walk on their indoor track shortly after the yolk incident. When we returned an hour later, the whites and yolks were hard and rubbery.

I guess it was hot enough outside to fry an egg!