Play dough Easter Eggs- Sorting Big, Medium and Little Eggs

During the week we decided to have an Easter Egg sale! Little Boo mentioned doing her play dough cake stall so I suggested because it was Easter that we make an Easter egg stall instead.  She was really keen so we set to work making the Play dough Easter Eggs to sell to her customers. Little Boo had a great time decorating the eggs with buttons and some sparkly gems. 

We then set up the stall and Little Boo sorted out the eggs into Big, Medium and Little sizes.  We made labels for the prices which Little Boo was keen to cut out and trace over the writing. 

Then the customers came to buy their eggs! 

Game to help shape and colour recognition

Just thought I would share with you a simple few games that we did the other day. Little Boo had her foam shapes out we laid them on the table and I started to ask her questions such as " find me a blue shape?", "find me a triangle?" the questions then got harder such as " find me a blue triangle?" "find me a yellow square?". This went really well and I was impressed at how well she was doing.

Placing the shapes in size order

Spotting different shapes

We then progressed to putting the shapes in order largest to smallest. This is such a versatile game as you could start to ask for the odd ones out as well or creating patterns all these games for a 99p pack of shapes.

Cubes of treasure

I have been thinking of creative ways to use ice cubes as Little Boo really enjoyed playing with the colour ones. Then I considered freezing things inside the ice cubes for Little Boo to find and match up with images.    This is how it went....

I made the ice cubes the same way as last time so that the treasure could not be seen

All the items that were in the treasure cubes

Little Boo adding them to water.

The searching then began

and items were matched to the cards

Once they were all found she enjoyed playing with the water as well.

 This was great fun to play and incorporates colour recognition, sorting into colours and encourages conversation over what has been found or left to be found.