Preschool Easter Egg Games

When it comes to Easter activities for the classroom, you absolutely cannot go wrong with anything using plastic easter eggs. Preschoolers LOVE these things, so any money spent on them is always well worth it! Little ones will happily hunt for Easter eggs over and over again, and opening an Easter egg to find a surprise – even an educational one – is a preschooler’s ultimate fantasy. There are so many different games that these can be used for, here are some ideas to get you started.

Hide the eggs in different spaces (classroom playground, different rooms in your school, etc.) and ask children to find specific colored eggs. Each child can hunt for their own color, or they can all work together to only find one color at a time.

Put manipulatives inside the eggs (shape blocks, colored bears, letter tiles, etc.) and ask children to open their egg and identify or label whatever is inside of it.

Use the eggs for relay races. Balance an egg on a spoon and ask children to walk a distance holding it, roll them around the room with your noses, toss them into buckets or baskets, etc.

Take all of the eggs apart and give the children a short amount of time to find the matches and put them together – see if they can beat the clock. Once they’ve been able to do this by matching colors, write numbers on one half and draw the same number of dots on the other half and see if they can match these. You can also put a sticker on the seam of the egg and cut it in half to see if the children can match the whole picture.

There are so many creative ways to use these, and preschoolers love to repeat favorite activities. You may be hunting for Easter eggs until Christmas!