Tot School: Easter and Sharing

We're keeping a few activities from last week and adding others.  Our focus is sharing, with a little Easter (eggs, mainly) thrown in.

Sharing ice cubes: each egg spot gets a cube.  I'm not planning on using the tongs pictured.  I may use a large spoon or just have A use her hands.  We'll start out with no patterns and go from there.

Spooning eggs: spoon eggs from one bowl into another.
A was not excited about using a spoon, so we turned this into an activity where she took eggs from one bowl and ran them across the room to the other one.  We did this over and over and over.

Egg Shape Match--a favorite from last week.  Check out last week's post
to see where you can print yours for free!

A version of the Sharing Caterpillar, taken from Instant Bible Lessons for Toddlers.
-Glue circles onto paper
-Color circles with markers
-Decorate with circle stickers
-Glue pictures of things we can share
-Write memory verse on top (They shared everything they had.  Acts 4:32)
(This craft is done over the entire week, not in one sitting.)

Uppercase/Lowercase alphabet egg match

This was printed for free online, but have no idea where I got it.  If anyone knows, drop me a line so I can give credit!

Number Egg Match from last week

What are you doing this week?

Made by Mama: Peg People!

A has been under the weather, so I think we'll stick with the same tot school we had from last week.  I'll update if we add a few new boxes.

I finally made these cute little people in cups as an Easter gift for A!  I saw them on Etsy and have had the materials since Christmas.  

The only problem...ONLY the yellow person fits.  Ugh.

 I thought maybe they could be hats, but it would be hard to play with them this way on the carpet since the people wouldn't be very stable.

This is how we ended up using them.  I think I'll have to try again another time, but this works for now!

1/2 dozen things to do with plastic eggs

Here are a few ideas of what to do with those colorful, plastic eggs!

Sort big and small

Match by color

Matching eggs in a carton by number

(an easier version would be just to put eggs into the carton--no numbers)

Egg hunt

Spooning eggs from one container into another

What's your favorite use for plastic eggs?

Check out all the cool ideas Stephanie has over at Playing House!

Tot School: Easter!

Here's what we've got planned for tot school this week!

Egg Hunt
A loved our Shamrock letter hunt so I anticipate her liking this activity too.  I'll just hide the eggs around the house and she'll hunt for them.

Bingo dotters on a large construction paper egg

Number Egg Match

(last week's matching by color was too easy.  This should add a challenge for A)

Which one is different? (FREE from Our Little Monkeys)

Easter puzzles (FREE from Lawteedah)

Egg shape match (FREE from A Child's Place)

Coloring pages on the easel with Crayola Beginnings Triangular paintbrushes.

(coloring pages printed from my bible crafts and here) 

We also have our play dough from last week as well as our Bible story/song a day from our
100 Bible Stories and Songs Bible.

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