What to do with all these eggs?

Now that Easter is over and you have all these eggs left over, what should you do with them? Depending on your child's age, there are many things you can do with them. If you already have a sensory bin set up, you can add the eggs to your sensory bin to use to scoop items (if you are working with families that have, or you have food insecurity, you can use non-food items in your sensory bin to scoop and pour, or even water), you can hide the eggs in your sensory bin and have your child try to find certain colors of eggs, you can work on open/close, in/out. For younger children you may need to do some hard over hand assistance to help them to work on opening and closing the eggs as you say "open" "close". You can put items in the eggs, but if your child still mouths items, please be watchful so they don't put anything in their mouth. You can count how many of the eggs they find in the sensory bin. If the egg tops come off, you can try putting different colored tops to bottoms, (such as yellow with blue, red with orange, etc) and see if your child can take them off and match them with the correct colors. You can also add them to your child's pretend play and have them use them to feed animals, babies, etc.

If you have older children you can write down things to do or find on pieces of paper and put it in the eggs. Such as "go find something small" "do 10 jumping jacks" "find 5 red things" and so on, and your child would have to do the item that they picked. Older children can also use these to do an egg race, where they put the egg on a spoon and try to balance it while walking. It can be done solo or against a sibling to race and see who does it faster without dropping their egg. You can also hide the eggs in certain places and work on positional words, giving clues like "it's on top of something brown." Or for the younger ones just saying "it's on top of the couch." Or "it's under the table" and having them run to get it, crawl to get it, jump to get it, etc, so they work on identification skills, gross motor skills and receptive language skills at the same time. You can also have children with expressive language delays try to imitate the name of the colored egg after you, or the first part of the word, or any sound.

These are just a few ideas of what to do with all of those eggs. What are some things you have done?