What to do with all of those extra plastic Easter Eggs

Well, it's the day before Easter, we have three egg hunts left, but between my two munchkins we've already added about 30 plastic eggs to the family arsenal this year!  Add that to the forty we have from last year, and I think it is time to start coming up with some alternate uses for eggs!

One plan is to take 26 eggs (one for each letter of the alphabet) to work on uppercase/lowercase letter matching. One the top of the egg, I will use a sharpie to write the uppercase letter (i.e., "A") and then write the corresponding lowercase letter ("a") on the bottom half of the egg. We will then mix up all of the tops and bottoms, and play a matching game, where Caroline has to find the uppercase and lowercase letters to create each egg! For children who do not already know all of the letters of the alphabet or would be overwhelmed by 26 eggs (or 52 egg halves), start with the letters in their name. Most often, children will recognize the letters in their name first, and can use those associations to begin to make other alphabet knowledge connections.