What can you do with a 1 dollar bag of plastic easter eggs from the dollar store?
1. Play a matching game. Take them apart, then have your child place matching the designs or colors together.
2. Have the traditional egg hunt. However, when you hide them from your older preschoolers, hide them in more challenging locations. Give them verbal directions and hints to improve listening skills, prepositions, and attention while you play.
Also, let kids hide the eggs and then have the grown-ups hunt for them. The children can give you directions and hints when you have trouble locating the eggs to increase verbal skills.
Once the hunt is over count the eggs to be sure you have found all of them. 
3. Use them to make circle prints. Squirt paint onto a paper plate, dip the egg half into the paint, and then press it on paper.
4. While you have the paint out, have an artistic Easter egg roll. Tape paper into the bottom of a cardboard box or in a plastic box. Dip the eggs into paint, then roll the egg across the paper by tipping the box various directions.
5. Have an old fashioned egg-on-the-spoon race. Or if you don’t want to race, use a spoon to scoop up eggs to put them in a basket. Count them as you scoop them. Use a large spoon. To create the spoon below I took apart a set of salad tongs that I purchased at Dollar General. The eggs are from the Dollar Tree.
5. Use them as a scoop to play in rice or beans.
6. Toss them into a bucket.
7. Fill them with rice, beans or other material and glue them shut to make rhythm instruments with various sounds. I used a cool temperature glue gun. You have to move fast! Quickly apply the glue then put the egg together with the rice and press firmly together. I had my husband try to pull apart the egg, and he found it to be firmly set in place.
If you have any other ideas or links I would love for you to share them with fellow readers in the comments or on the CCK Facebook page.
We are finally having warmer temperatures, thunderstorms, green grass, and blossoms are on the trees. It is a beautiful sight after a long winter. I hope you are enjoying your spring! I still have limited blogging time so I hope you will stay tuned. The next post will be one of our favorite Easter recipes and activities. I just can’t let Easter Sunday pass without sharing it!
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Great set of ideas!
Thanks Deborah!
I am doing an all egg week with my daycare children and this will add too their fun. Great ideas.
Wonderful! Hope you all have a fun week, Michelle.
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Karen Nemeth shared this great idea with me last year! The children absolutely loved it!
I really like the patterning, plus they are just plain cute!! Thanks for the link. I think I’m going to put it some where on the FB page.
Check out some more ideas I just posted a few days ago – look on http://www.makeearlylearningfun.blogspot.com and click on the eggs
Great ideas! Thanks Rory.
Wish i could find these great plastic eggs in Australia. Thanks for ideas.
Thanks for dropping by Leslie. I wish you could find them too! Their pretty much an Easter staple here in our neck of the woods.
Fun list!
Thank you!
Kristi, thanks for dropping by my blog today, and I’m so glad I made the return visit!! Just found plastic eggs for the first time over here, and have been thinking about what I’d do with them!! Great blog, lots of super ideas X
You’re welcome, I obviously enjoyed my visit! Glad you found CCK to be helpful.
Great ideas – good to have lots of ways to use them playfully rather than *just* filling them with chocolate.
All awesome ideas! As I just bought about 55 of these things, I will definitely be utilizing some of these recycling methods. I like the musical instrument idea the best!
Thanks for coming by my blog today!
Thanks for visiting! Hope you all have loads of fun this weekend.
You have some Great ideas I will be doing some of them. I saw your page linked from Modernparentsmessykids. They had the pic of the egg in the rice and I thought it was something a little different than what you did until I read it. So here is a Idea have a tub of rice and fill it with small treasures the older the child the smaller the treasure and tell them they can only use the plastic egg to find the treasures. The Treasures dont have to be anything special they could be buttons beads balls or you can but little Treasures for them. If you have a bunch of kids you could put a time limit on it then whoever gets the most treasures gets a big prize.
Hi Shelley, Thanks for clicking over and adding a great idea to the collection!
Love it! Such cute ideas!
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Thanks for these ideas! Very cute. I run a home day care, so I’m always looking for holiday themed fun!
I hope your little ones have a great time. Thanks for stopping by!
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