Speech and Language Easter Egg Activities

Easter is always a good time to work on developmental skills, due to all the great Easter toys. Easter eggs present many opportunities for learning. I have included a sensory craft and ways to use them to enhance skill development.

Sensory Speech and Language Easter Egg Activities:

You need:

– Plastic eggs

– Hot glue gun

– Jelly beans, rice or dried pasta

– Materials with different textures and colors: small pompoms, cotton, feather trim, tinsel, thick yarn, plastic gems, sparkly pipe cleaners, buttons, felt, fabric and leather, etc.

Directions:

– Fill plastic eggs with a few jelly beans, rice or dried pasta to make different sounds.

– Hot-glue the egg shut.

– Hot glue items with different textures and colors to the outside of the eggs. Make sure the materials used are safe for the age of the child.

Speech and Language Activities

– Use the eggs to give and take directions: Put the soft green egg next to a bumpy egg, etc. Let the children give you directions to follow. Hide the eggs and give directions or clues where each egg is hidden. Let the children hide and direct you with clues.

– Use the eggs to create a story about a make-believe animal: What kind of animal might have laid this egg? Where does the animal live? What does it eat? Where is it now?

– Create a touch-and-feel game. Take pictures of each egg and print to make a set of cards. Place the eggs in a bag so they cannot be seen. Turn over a card and find the egg on the card by touching the eggs in the bag, without looking. Describe the egg on the card before trying to find it in the bag. What does the egg look like? What do you think it will feel like?

– Make two of a kind for matching and sorting activities. Sort by color and texture.