If it were up to me, my children would only have one Easter basket, but so many people like to bring them to our Easter brunch that we ended up with ten this year. Ten! It’s great that the boys are so loved, but: What to do with all those baskets?
I’m pretty sure a garage sale is in order, but until then, we’re having lots of fun with Montessori-inspired activities. Sorting objects is an important skill which teaches discrimination, counting and an eye for detail. Here are some activities we’ve done using the props the Easter Bunny left behind.
Sandpaper Number Egg Sort
I placed the sandpaper numbers 0-9 next to the baskets and Max filled them with the correct number of eggs. (This is really an enlarged version of the Montessori Spindle Box, but the variation brought fresh energy.)
Egg Size Sort
Max divided the eggs into small, medium and large. Then he counted them and we placed the correct number on each basket.
Egg Color Sort
This one is easy for the little ones. Every basket gets one color of egg. It reinforces color sorting, but also the variations in shades and patterns prompted a lot of discussion with Max. Does this look more orange or brown? This egg is yellow with blue ducks, where does it go? Problem solving and discriminating thoughts are important milestones.
Egg Shape Sort
This activity introduced geometric solids to our understanding of shapes. Max sorted spheres and ellipses.
After all this, Max wanted more sorts. Does anyone else have some great ideas?
What lovely ideas 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing <3
This is so much fun! I will definitely be doing this with my daughter!
These are easy and so cute!
I love those counting ones! We always end up with sooo many eggs between all the aunts and uncles and grandparents! This is a great way to put them to good use.
Such cute and educational ideas! My boys will love this!
These are fun activities for Easter. Definitely bookmarking this for later!
What a fantastic idea! I really want to do something with all of the leftover easter eggs we are going to get this year, I might have to try this out!
I love this! We will have no many plastic Easter eggs around this house soon, and these are some really fun and educational ideas to utilize them. xo
Such cute ideas. I love fun learning techniques. We use a lot of fun ways to learn in our homeschool. Plus I know I have plenty of Easter eggs laying around.
Color sorting is super fun and something I have been working on with my toddler lately – thanks for the ideas!
LOVE these ideas!! We are working on our numbers now!
This is such a cute idea for helping with Math. I will definitely be putting our plastic eggs to use. How fun 🙂
This is an adorable idea. Love it!
Fun! My son becomes obsessed with these eggs at Easter time, so I’m happy to learn other ways to use them. Thanks for sharing!
I love these ideas! And your boys are adorable!
I love these ideas! I feel like there are Easter eggs all over my house for at least two months-may as we’ll get some education lit of them