A New Take of the Easter Egg Hunt -Fun Learning Game for the Kiddos

It is spring break this week in our school district and I wanted to come up with a fun game for the kiddos to play. I wanted a game that incorporated some learning/review from school, but also fun to keep their attention. I had different aged kiddos here so I had to make it "fit" to everyone.

This is what I did:

I took some small pieces of paper and came up with 26 different learning/review questions and/or statements. Here are some of them I used (you could come up with a billion if you had the time):

• name three fruits
• name a jungle animal
• count to 65 by 5's
• name the city you live in
• I drew a picture of a clock and then asked what time it said
• the person who writes books is called a what?
• write your phone number
• what is half of 10?
• what two colors make purple?
• if there are 5 bunnies and they each have three jelly beans, how many jelly beans are there in all?
• how many ways can you spell "to"?
• write three ways to show the number 3
• 7+____ = 12
• write a complete sentence
• what does a sentence start with?
• what is this "?"?
• show the tally marks for the number 12
• write your address

After I wrote each one down, I put it inside a plastic Easter egg. I then took a permanent marker and numbered all the eggs. I split the kids up into teams and gave each team a clip board with a piece of notebook paper numbered 1-26 (the number of eggs I had). I hid the eggs around the house. The difference in this hunt is that you have to go around with your team, find an egg, read the paper inside and write your answer on the corresponding line on the notebook paper and then finally, PUT THE EGG BACK so the other team can get to it. The team that finds all the eggs and answers them wins! At the end of the hunt, I read aloud each question and each team said what they had! This turned out to be a fun game and the kids didn't even know they were working on reading, writing, teamwork, basic skills, listening and so much more!!! You could make this as big or small as you wanted to. You don't even need teams, just do it with a few kids. And, you can adjust it to any level!

This was the pile of eggs at the end of our hunt!

Showing you what I did with clip board and notebook paper for their answers.

All of the kids loved the game!


I would love to hear if you tried this at home and if your kids had fun with it too!

St. Patty's Day Leprachaun Treasure Hunt

This was a great little activity for a little leprechaun fun. I put paper out of the shredder into a plastic shoe box. Then I dumped in some "treasures" that the leprechauns had left behind. I got a little bag of foam St. Patty's Day cutouts from the $1 bin at Target that I threw in there and I had some gold beads and some little plastic letter beads (always try to throw in some "learning" in the fun). The kids then "hunted" for the stuff the leprechauns left. I gave them clothes pins to use to pick the stuff up.

Valentine Festivities for Kiddos!

I am getting ready to plan our little Valentine party this week and thought I would share some of my ideas in case you are planning something for your little ones!

Here is a list of some of the things I am planning on doing:

Love Nest: I am going to build a Love Nest (tent) in the living room out of pillows and blankets. I will put our Valentines books in the Love Nest.

Heart Hunt: I am going to cut out hearts from construction paper and hide them around the house. I will tell the kids that Cupid has visited and has hidden hearts all around and we have to find them.

Cookie Station: I am going to bake some heart shaped sugar cookies that the kids will be able to decorate themselves.

Valentine Lunch: I am going to make it a Valentine themed lunch. Heart shaped sandwiches, red jello jigglers, white string cheese with pretzels (for Cupid's bow and arrow),strawberries or apples and red/white juice.

A mom brought the strawberries and string cheese which was perfect for our arrows!

Valentine Station: I will have the art table set up with different Valentine colored papers and feathers, beads, strings, etc. that the kids can create with.

Good ol' fashioned Valentine Mailboxes made out of different tissue boxes.

Pin The Arrow on the Heart: I will have a heart poster that the kids will "pin" the arrow on. I will make an arrow out of construction paper/heavier cardstock and have the kids play it like "Pin the Tail on the Donkey".

Coloring: I have some coloring Valentine coloring pages that will be a filler activity when we are between activities or when the kids just need a quiet activity.

 

 

 

 

We also made these hearts out of clay.

Then, the kids pushed different Valentine colored things into the hearts (beads, buttons, feathers, whatever you have on hand).

They turned out so cute!!!

 

Passing out Valentines: Of course we will pass out our Valentines!


These are some of the thing I have planned. I will be having this little party on Wednesday. I will take pictures and post them after that, but I thought I would get some of my plans posted now in case you were planning a little get together yourself!!! I would love to hear what you are doing as well!

Happy Valentine Planning!

Summer Alphabet Hunt

This summer, we set out to try and find the entire alphabet in nature! We had the funnest time doing it and we came up with some "creative" letters!!! I printed these pictures off and put them in a plastic photo book so each child had their own alphabet book! It was a great memento to remember our summer adventures!

Check out our letter finds!

Outdoor Egg Carton Hunt for Kids

I can't remember if I have blogged this before, but this is such a fun outdoor activity to do with the kids!!

Paint the inside of an egg carton with different colors and let dry over night.

Have the kids head outdoors and hunt for different things in nature that corresponds with the colors in the egg carton.

It is always so neat to see what they come up with at the end of the hunt. Even the "hard" colors can be found!