If you’re on the hunt for fun and engaging egg activities for kids, this ginormous list should keep you busy for a few weeks. And it’s just in time for Easter and Easter Egg Hunts.
Egg Activities for Kids
Because the list is so large, I’ve broken it down into these categories: Egg Decorating, Plastic Eggs, Games, Painting and Sculpture, Crafts, and Science.
I hope you’ll enjoy getting inspired from and pinning these ideas as much as I enjoyed assembling this eggy line-up. If you have more ideas to share, please add them to a comment so that others can enjoy them too.
Egg Decorating Activities for Kids
Henry’s First Egg Decorating: Vibrant Egg Dye, Crayon Resist, Marbled Eggs, Drip Dot Eggs (see photo above), Hands on as we Grow
Naturally Decorated Marbled Eggs, The Chocolate Muffin Tree
Blown out Easter Eggs, The Artful Parent
Three Easy Tricks for Blown Out Eggs, Tinkerlab
Easter Eggsperiments, Paint Cut Paste
Bleeding Tissue Easter Eggs, The Chocolate Muffin Tree
Austrian Egg Blowing, Red Ted Art
Vegetable Dyed Easter Eggs, Tinkerlab
Hot Easter Eggs Decorated with Crayons, The Chocolate Muffin Tree
Posting Letters to your Children inside Eggs (see photo above), Mommy Labs
Crayon Wax Resist Rainbow Eggs, A Little Learning for Two
Collage Eggs, The Artful Parent
Painted Eggs with Egg Crate Stands, A Mom with a Lesson Plan
I Love you Stinky Face Eggs decorated with googly eyes and pom-poms (inspired by this book), Toddler Approved
Hot Crayon Shaving Easter Eggs, Mama Smiles
26 Decorated Egg Ideas, Hands on as we Grow
Easy Spotty Eggs (egg decorating with Toddlers), Red Ted Art
Plastic Egg Activities for Kids
Fancy Shaker Eggs (see photo above), Mama Smiles
ABC Egg Hunt, Toddler Approved
Crack Open the Egg and Paint, Teach Preschool
Easter Eggs: Not Just for Hunting, Creative Connections for Kids
Plastic Egg Ice Sculptures, Creativity my Passion
12 Ways to Learn, Using Plastic Easter Eggs, JDaniel4’s Mom
Make a Plastic Egg Pig Nose, Creativity My Passion
Glow in the Dark Eggs, Twins at Play
Egg Games
Ice Eggs (See photo above), A Little Learning for Two
Easter Egg Number Hunt, A Mom with a Lesson Plan
Baby Play: Easter Egg Pick Up, Ready Set Read
Balancing Easter Eggs, A Mom with a Lesson Plan
Egg and Spoon Race, Creativity My Passion
Mexican Cascarones (Eggs filled with Confetti), Dirt and Boogers
Easter Egg Spelling Practice (see above), A Mom with a Lesson Plan
Egg Emotion Cards, Toddler Approved
Name Egg Hunt, Toddler Approved
Egg Crafts
Eggshell Candles (See photo above), Paint Cut Paste
Decoupage Eggs, Pink and Green Mama
Easter Egg Sun Catchers, The Artful Parent
Spring in an Egg, Small and Friendly
How to make (egg-shaped) soap…for beginners, Red Ted Art
Felt Eggs, Sunny Side Up, Pink and Green Mama
Easter Garland with Foam Eggs, East Coast Mommy
Easter Grass Spring Garden, The Outlaw Mom
Egg Molds for Kids, Foodie Parent
Make a Sheep from a Plastic Egg, De tour et de rien
Giant Chocolate Egg, Mummy Mummy Mum
Easter Egg Cupcakes with Yolk Centers, Cupcake Project
Egg Painting & Sculpture Activities
Egg Shell Sculpture (See photo above), Messy Kids
Make your own Egg Tempera Paint, Tinkerlab
Spray Painted Egg Bunting, Sun Hats and Wellie Boots
Tape Resist Eggs, Putti Prapancha
Rolling Eggs, Experimenting Mom
Easter Egg Made with Melted Beads, Sun Hats and Wellie Boots
Easter Shadow Box with Storytelling, Mommy Labs
Play Dough Easter Eggs, Putti Prapancha
Egg Science Activities
The Transparent and Bouncy Egg Experiment (See photo above), The Chocolate Muffin Tree
Learning About Eggs, A Little Learning for Two
How Strong is an Eggshell?, Science Sparks
An Experiment with Egg and Soda, The Chocolate Muffin Tree
Egg Geodes, Tinkerlab
Walking on Raw Eggs, Tinkerlab
The Floating Egg-periment, Experimenting Mom
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Awesome List! Pinned it! Great work on this collection. You’ve topped my post today of our “10 Egg Ideas” from last week:
http://www.thechocolatemuffintree.com/2012/03/10-different-egg-activities-and.html
What an eggstra-special post! Love the ideas and all the ways to do art, craft, sculpture and explore science!
Thank you for including our ‘posting letters in the egg’ post and the Easter Shadowbox 🙂
What an amazing post all about eggs! Who would have thought that there are that many ideas out there!
Thank you so much for including ours 🙂
Maggy
That is an awesome list !! We will have to try many of these. Thank you for including ‘Tape resist’ and ‘play dough eggs’.Â
Today I posted 50+ egg shaped (eggless) easter craft ideas http://www.puttiprapancha.com/2012/03/50-egg-shaped-easter-crafts.html
thanks for including some of our egg fun among this amazing list! what a resource this will be each spring!Â
Great post!! Thanks for including some of ours!! Pinning this now. We have lots to keep us busy this week.
Thanks for including our foam egg garland. :-) Such a great collection! Definitely adding it to my pin board. Â
This round-up is amazing!!! I really love the ice eggs – what a fun idea! Maybe I’ll give blown-out eggs a try using your tips this year.
Thanks so much for including our crayon eggs and shaker eggs 🙂
such a egg-olic roundup. Thanks for including our Rolling egg art and the floating egg-periment posts. Loves this post!
What a wonderful list of ideas! This is going to looked back at over and over again.
Thank you for compiling all of these! Some of them are definitely going on my “to do” list this year!
What a fantastic list of activities!Â
Incredibly comprehensive list! Â Thanks for including one of ours. Â I don’t even know where to start … the transparent bouncy egg has me intrigued 🙂 Â
Wow! What a list! I can’t wait to try some of these out. Thanks for including our Mexican Cascarones.
Epic! I like how you’ve organized the list – great for future reference. BTW, your “best of” list looks awesome in the margin.
What an awesome list! Looking forward to doing at least 3 of these activities.
Thank you so much for compiling this list. I’ve been exploring your site and find it to be a fantasic resource. I can’t wait to try a few of these with my 2 year old son!
Thanks for all the lovely comments! Aren’t these great ideas? Kudos to the talented bloggers who are on this list!
Fantastic! Â I will definitely be sharing on my Facebook Fan page as well! Â Thanks so much!
Charity
The Organized Classroom Blog
http://fb.com/theOrganizedClassroomBlog
This is a nice idea to tech your children arts. Hope you’ll post more ideas. However,  basic education is still important.Â
Just posted on Craft Gossip! Happy Easter:)
http://lessonplans.craftgossip.com/?p=5843
awesome ideas! TFS
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