Easter Eggs Activities and its developmental Importance for kids
Easter holds so many great activities for our children. What kid doesn’t love an Easter egg hunt? An Easter egg hunt is not just fun but a whole learning process. First, there’s finding the eggs, which works on your child’s gross motor and cognitive skills. Then decision making, planning, visual skills, and Picking the eggs up and putting them in the basket, which works on the child’s fine motor skills and coordination.
Here are some fun activities to do at Easter:
Color Scavenger Hunt
- Use plastic-colored Easter eggs to encourage gross motor skills, visual perception, and learning colors. They will also be building cognitive skills and visual scanning.
- You can assign a color to each child, and those are the eggs that they need to find.
- You can use clues or a scavenger hunt for the older children.
- The reward is they get to keep what is inside each of the eggs that they find.
- Some tips for a successful Easter egg hunt for small children are:
- Find a suitable space for the hunt, a small safe place.
- Make sure to have baskets for each child.
- Keep it simple.
- Make sure all the children know the rules.
- Keep things fair.
- Some tips for a successful Easter egg hunt for small children are:
Easter egg hunts and/or scavenger hunts encourage physical activity. You can even involve math and have your little one practice counting all of the eggs they found. You can even put different sensory objects in some of the eggs for them to explore. Easter stickers are also a great item to put in the eggs.
Eggs and Bunny Art
- This activity will be painting or coloring the eggs.
- Have your child use markers, crayons, or paint to color the eggs for Easter.
- Let them be creative and use their imagination. There is no right or wrong way.
Art promotes creativity, and that is extremely important for a child’s development. Holding the marker, crayon, or brush works on their fine motor skills. Art also helps children gain confidence and perseverance. Painting and coloring help develop visual-spatial skills. It will also help develop working memory, mental flexibility, and self-control.
Feed the Bunny
- Use a box that is closed up and cut out a mouth for the bunny.
- Give your child pom poms and have them feed the bunny through the mouth either with their hands or tweezers.
This activity will work a child’s pincer grasp when picking up the pompoms with their fingers or the tweezers. The ability to isolate the pointer finger and use a pincer grasp during fine motor play are important skills to prepare kids for a good pencil grasp.
This activity can also work on your child’s ability to cross the midline. Have them reach over to the left side to get the pompoms and then back to the right to feed the bunny. This is an important prerequisite to efficient reading, writing skills, and overall motor coordination.
Easter Activities to Involve the Entire Family
– Egg and Spoon Race – This is an old-fashioned outdoor game where you each have a spoon with an egg resting on it. You all race to a certain spot and see who can make it there first without dropping their egg.
– Read Easter books together as a family. Reading is so good for children and helps them with bonding, listening skills, cognitive and language development, expanded vocabulary, attention span, creativity, and social and emotional development.
– Easter symbolizes rebirth, so plant some flowers, plants, or trees together. Children love to help, and you can teach them about the planting process, feeding and nurturing what you plant, and how it grows.
– You can decorate a tree with Easter eggs for Spring.
– You can teach your child about the importance of giving. Have them help make, decorate, and fill an Easter basket. Then bring it to a neighbor, friend, or family member.
– Make the Easter meal together as a family. Let the children help because they love to feel like they accomplished something and helped mom and dad.
– If the weather permits, be outside! Everyone benefits from getting some sunshine and breathing in the fresh air. It is also very beneficial for children to explore the outdoors and nature.
Holidays bring families together, and family time is incredibly important for raising a healthy and secure child. Children learn from what they see, so show them what it means to be there for each other and truly with each other. It is a time when your children learn how to deal with all kinds of life situations, and they learn invaluable lessons.
So, don’t forget to stock up on some plastic Easter eggs, candy, small gifts/toys, and anything else you might need for Easter. Most of all just have fun!!
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