{"id":53,"date":"2009-04-08T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/08\/fun-uses-for-plastic-eggs\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T08:19:00","slug":"fun-uses-for-plastic-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/fun-uses-for-plastic-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Uses for Plastic Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:larger;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,255);\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/crafts.preschoolrock.com\/index.php\/crafts\/plastic-egg-snake-preschool-craft\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> a fun little project to use those plastic eggs after Easter.&nbsp; He even has dried beans in his tail so he rattles!&nbsp;&nbsp;I noticed that the plastic eggs we bought this year had little holes in them already (I suspect it&#8217;s so they&#8217;re not as much of a suffocation hazard for little ones) so they may not even need the drilling step.&nbsp; Pretty cute, huh?&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/crafts.preschoolrock.com\/uploads\/images\/EggSnake.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">Here&#8217;s some other uses for plastic eggs:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Fill them with slips of paper with simple chores <span style=\"font-size:larger;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,255);\">and fun activities <\/span><\/span><\/span>written on them and have the kids take turns choosing eggs and doing the jobs inside.<\/li>\n<li>Put different objects inside and have the kids rattle them and guess the contents.<\/li>\n<li>Use them as bath toys.&nbsp; See if the kids can find a way to make them sink.<\/li>\n<li>Use them as molds to make playdough eggs and decorate with bits of other colors.<\/li>\n<li>Make beautiful felted eggs like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesilverpenny.com\/FreeProjectEasterEggs.html\">these<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Have a treasure hunt.&nbsp; Put a clue in each egg leading to the next, with a fun surprise in the last one.<\/li>\n<li>Teachers and homeschool parents can fill them with writing prompts, review questions or math drills.<\/li>\n<li>Use them to count down the days till a special event like a birthday or a parent coming back from deployment.&nbsp; Number each one and put a little treat or write a fun activity for the day inside.<\/li>\n<li>Make a basket of &quot;talking eggs&quot; for mealtimes.&nbsp; Write little questions on slips of paper for inside each egg (What&#8217;s something funny that happened today?&nbsp; What job would you not like to do for a living?&nbsp; If you were a superhero, what would be your superhero name?&nbsp; What are 3 things you&#8217;re grateful for?) and have everybody take turns opening an egg at dinner and answering it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any more, please leave a comment and add them!<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fun little project to use those plastic eggs after Easter.&nbsp; He even has dried beans in his tail so he rattles!&nbsp;&nbsp;I noticed that the plastic eggs we bought this year had little holes in them already (I suspect it&#8217;s so they&#8217;re not as much of a suffocation hazard for little ones) so they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[59,69,86,103,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}