Instead of throwing the plastic Easter eggs away after your Easter egg hunt, here are seven ways to recycle plastic Easter eggs that your preschooler will love. They can have fun with their creative side before packing them away for next year. Learn letters, make alien bugs, a pretty Mother’s Day craft or even use them for a science experiment. These plastic eggs are full of possibilities.
Make these super cute Egg Bugs (above) with leftover plastic eggs, pipe cleaners and stickers! These were a huge hit with my Sunday school kids last year!
Make a bouquet that won’t wilt or need a single drop of water with tissue paper and eggs!
Throw a few into a Spring Sensory Tub.
Introduce letters to your toddler.
Get into a scientific mode with this experiment using eggs to answer the question “Sink or float?”
Match up some colors – After Easter use simple nests made from colored plates.
Have fun with numbers, letters, and shapes with this discovery game using the eggs!
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Jackie Lee says
Great ideas. I was hoping you were going to have some ideas for those eggs. This is the first year we’ve really gotten this kind of egg so I’m glad to have some ideas to use them. 🙂 I was also thinking about putting letters that spell words in them ~ and then putting the words together. Not sure exactly how that will work, but I’m sure we can figure out something!
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Wendy says
we are swimming in eggs! thanks for the cute ideas. love that flower!
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Rachel says
What great ideas! I love them! Thanks we have tons of those eggs!
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Beverly says
these are such great ideas! thanks!
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Stacy says
Jackie- Check out the sight word scramble that we did last week
http://givinguponacleanhouse.blogspot.com/2010/03/scrambled-sight-words.html
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kye says
thank you just did my school work
Margaret@growingplay.com says
We made Easter egg Plinko with leftover plastic eggs. Check it out here http://growingplay.blogspot.com/2012/03/easter-egg-plinko.html?m=1
crystal@growingajeweledrose says
I love the bugs and the flower. Great ideas! Pinned for after Easter 🙂
admin says
Thanks Crystal!