Spelling with Easter Eggs

My kids LOVE to hunt for Easter eggs! And, while they love the candy inside, they REALLY love the 'hunt'!

So, with Easter over I decided to repurpose those plastic eggs for a spelling game.

First, I picked short, easy words like; fish, bed, dog, ring, etc. and spelled them using letter magnets. *scrabble pieces, or pieces of paper with the letters written on them would also work.

Next, I put together a sheet with photos of each word and colored spaces for each letter depending on the egg color.  *CLICK HERE to download my spelling sheet.

Then I put each word in a different color of Easter egg. i.e. For 'fish' I used pink eggs and put an 'f' in one, an 'i' in another, an 's' in another and an 'h' in another. Then, for 'hat', I used green eggs and put each letter in a green egg. etc.

After that, I hid the eggs all over the house.

When AJ and Si woke up from their naps, they used their Halloween pumpkins to collect the Easter eggs (my kids are going to be so confused)!

Then we sat down on the floor and I asked Si to hand me all the 'pink' eggs. After she handed me all the pink eggs I passed them to AJ who opened them up and used them to spell the 'pink' word. While he was working on the word I asked Si to hand me the yellow eggs, etc.

They loved it! You could put anything in the eggs; words, parts of a bible verse, math equations, presidents to be organized... etc

Once all the eggs were open, and all the words spelled, I let the kids hide the eggs for me to find. There were some pretty good hiding spots too! I'll have to remember them for next Easter!