Simple Easter Egg Counting Activity

This Easter egg counting activity is a fun and festive way for young students to practice counting and early math skills! This is a great way to use up any leftover plastic Easter eggs. This Easter egg counting activity would be a quick and easy math center to set up for your classroom. Parents could easily set this activity up for their kids for extra counting practice at home as well.

*Pair this with our Easter Math and Literacy Centers for tons of learning fun this season!

Easter Egg Counting Activity

Gather Your Materials:

To create this simple Easter egg counting activity, you will need:

• Egg carton
• 12 plastic Easter eggs
• Permanent marker
• 78 pennies (or mini erasers, anything small)
• small bowl

Step 1 –

To begin, use a permanent marker to number each plastic Easter egg with numbers 1-12.

Place the eggs in an egg carton. Add the pennies to a small bowl.

Step 2:

Next, invite students to count out the appropriate number of pennies to add to each Easter egg!

When they are done, there should be no pennies leftover in the bowl.

(*Remember, you can use mini erasers or alternative items like beads if you prefer.) 

Step 3:

Once the students have counted out all of the pennies, they can practice early addition skills by choosing 2 different eggs and counting out the total number of pennies in both.

Use a mini whiteboard to record the results. Yay for quick and easy learning activities!!

Other Easter Egg Learning Activities:

• Money — For students practicing early money counting skills, have the eggs labeled with various amounts of cents and a bowl with quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies.
• Number Identification — For students working on developing number identification, have numbers written on the egg tops and bottoms. Invite students to match them up!
• Charts & Graphs — Place 2 dice into a plastic Easter egg for the students to shake and roll the dice. Then have them create bar charts with the results.
• Letters — Write uppercase letters on the egg tops and lowercase letters on the bottoms. Invite the students to match them up!

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