Two Fine Motor Egg Invitations

Whether your children participate or celebrate certain holidays exposing children to holidays offers numerous benefits. They include boosting their emotional & social development, broadening their horizons, fosters a sense of cultural awareness, and it provides opportunities for fun, bonding with family, friends, community, while  creating lasting memories. Here are two egg invitations we did this past week.

1. Invitation to Decorate Eggs with Natural Loose Parts: Inspiration for making art can sometimes strike unexpectedly & in unusual places. Who would have thought that these wooden eggs can turn into a canvas for creating beautiful decorated eggs? To set this invitation we placed a decorative beaded mat of eggs with designs as the point of inspiration, wooden eggs as the canvas, provided foraged spring flowers/leaves, & scissors. The children were invited to decorate eggs with natural loose parts.

2. Fine Motor Sensory Egg Exploration: In our tuff tray we placed expired rice & jelly beans as the base. Then placed these nesting eggs that came apart so we used them as the bowls. We provided Learning Resources handy scoopers and invited the children to grasp, scoop, pour, mix the sensory materials into the different sized egg containers.