Twins And Their Easter Eggs

Happy Easter!

This is one of my favorite holidays of the year - there are pretty flowers to smell, pastel colors, and who doesn´t love a few jelly beans and chocolate now and then!

One tradition we have in this house is coloring Easter eggs. It seems that we aren´t the only ones who enjoy this activity either, every store has egg dye available and a dozen eggs is practically given away for free.

I started thinking about how I could make this an educational activity. What books could I read that had Easter eggs in them? Well, after a little searching (and the help from the library), I found two really great books that had great illustrations and let the twins see how Easter eggs can look if you take your time and work slowly. The first one is The Easter Egg by Jan Brett and the other is Bunny´s Easter Egg by Anne Mortimer. My twins loved both books and ask to read them daily.

Let the activities begin!

We read the book and talked about different things we see at this time of year, specifically bunnies, Easter eggs, baskets and flowers. We talked about what the twin´s eggs will look like when they get to color them. Which colors would they pick, would they put stripes on them or another design? We also talked about what happened in each book and the different things the bunny did on his adventure.

Then it came time to color our eggs. In our house, easy is better so finding the colored plastic cups with the little tablets in them was perfect. All I had to do was mix the stuff and we were on our way, these cups also made clean up so simple. We had 18 eggs to color and the kids had a blast. The certainly enjoyed dipping the eggs in different colors and watching what happened after you mixed different colors. Letting them dry was the hardest part for them, they wanted to keep going!

After we cleaned up the kitchen and the eggs were dry, we did a math activity. Each kid had their basket and they had to sort them so they both had the same amount. We took turns going back and forth placing an egg in his basket, then hers. This was a great way to teach taking turns as well as division!

Another idea to do with your dried colored eggs is to sort by color, how many colors, stripes, etc. If you don´t feel comfortable using the hard boiled eggs, plastic ones work great as well. If you do use plastic eggs, matching top to bottom is a great activity to do also!

Happy Easter to you and your family! We hope you have an EGGS-tra happy holiday!

Kristen is a stay at home mom with three year old twins. Prior to having her twins, she was a kindergarten teacher and knows the importance of making learning fun. She is sharing her everyday life of raising twins. For more activities with preschoolers and to connect with our community visit http://www.thedoublescoop.com