Here is a favorite Easter activity from the archives of Somewhat Simple- originally posted in March of 2010
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My kids have had so much fun with our other holiday advent calendars (Valentines & Christmas), so when I saw THIS idea from the girls at Eighteen25, I knew I must make my family our own!
Here is what you need:
Plastic Easter Eggs, Egg Carton, Number Stickers (or use a sharpie) and printed activities.
DIRECTIONS:
1. Cut your activities into strips and put one inside each egg. I am only doing 6 eggs because we are going to start this countdown the week before Easter. If you have a carton that fits a dozen (or more) eggs, that is fun too- you just have to think of more activities than I do!)
2. Stick your number stickers to the top of each egg.
3. Place eggs in carton.
4. Enjoy!
On Monday Night (the week before Easter) during FHE, we will discuss the real meaning of Easter and why we celebrate this day. I will introduce the Egg Countdown and we will begin the activities inside the eggs each night starting with Tuesday. I think my kids are going to love this!
*edited to add that if you click on the materials picture it will enlarge and you can see the 6 activities we will be doing*
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Love this idea! May have to try this with my Grandchildren….Thank you for sharing it!
Love this idea! May have to try this with my Grandchildren….Thank you for sharing it!
Did I miss it? Did you tell what some of your activities are?
What a great idea! My daughter would love it! What types of activities did you include?
This is totally adorable!
What a great idea!!! Totally have to do this for my kids!
Sorry guys- I guess an activity list would have been helpful!
If you click on the materials picture it will enlarge and you can see the 6 activities we will be doing.
This looks so fun. We are going to do it for sure!
What a cute idea!! Countdowns are always fun, and Easter is a fabulous holiday to build up a little more.
I am so doing this – I just wrote down all the cute ideas – I love this!!
How fun! You always have such fun ideas!
thanks so much for linking our easter countdown on your awesome blog! i think yours turned out great!! i love that the idea is so simple and takes little work!
I love the countdown idea. I'll have to save this for next year when my little one has a clue what's going on. Thanks for sharing with Made it Monday! Jules
I love this idea. My daughter is 2 1/2 and learning everything right now. What a great way to teach her while having fun! thanks so much.
Michelle
http://www.maddycakesmuse.blogspot.com
Cute idea!
Ooh! I like this one! I like that it's just 6 days too. Sometimes it's hard to come up with activities for a really long advent. Nice!