Letter Matching Easter Eggs

I have seen this idea many, many times over the years, because it's just so clever. It uses Easter eggs buts doesn't have to be done at Easter. 

Supplies: plastic Easter eggs, sharpie

First, Monkey helped me break apart the two halves of the eggs. 

Then I used the sharpie to write an upper or lowercase letter onto matching colour eggs. 

Tip: The way I did the letters was wrong. When Monkey put the egg together, the letters were written in opposite direction. I didn't realize this until Monkey started the activity and it was too late to fix it. It's not really too big a deal but it would be a little more familiar for Monkey to see the letters in the same direction.

Then Monkey got started. As per usual, he wanted to do the alphabet in order, which for this activity was harder than usual since all the eggs were mixed up in a bin for him. 

I tried to get him to just pick up any egg and find its match, but he didn't want to. So instead, I helped him find the letters in order by telling him which colour to look for. 

We ended up doing about half the eggs on the first day and then finished the rest the next day. It took a little longer than Monkey could give his attention to all one sitting. 

This ended up being a fine motor activity as well because the eggs were small and Monkey sometimes had trouble putting the two halves together. 

Finally, Monkey got them all matched. 

This would be a great activity to take in the car on a road trip because it takes a little while to get through all the eggs. 

There are lots of other possibilities for using Easter eggs like this, you could do word families, numbers, etc. 

Mar