This week even though it’s past Easter, we are finding ways to repurpose our plastic eggs for play. I know some people like to wind up to Easter with such activities but I didn’t want to buy or waste items just for activities so we used them for our egg hunt first.
Yesterday, we gave painting with plastic eggs a try. It was interesting to see what kind of prints we could make. While I have ideas and talked about what you could make with the circles on my own paper, such as a flower, X decided to make a dragon fly.
Although, I don’t always model or offer ideas I find that with X it can be helpful to offer a range of possibilities because instead of in a classroom where there are other children, at home where it’s just him it helps if I occasionally take the position of older peer and can offer ideas or scaffolds to spark his thinking and ideas.
Have you tried painting prints or any other activities at home with plastic eggs? We’ve also used these for sensory play- so I am hoping to have a post up about that soon. What other ideas have you tried?
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