Easter Egg Color Sorting Activity to Make Rainbows

This Easter Egg Color Sorting Activity is a perfect springtime activity for kids. It involves using fine motor skills to grasp the plastic eggs and naturally works on color recognition too.

This making rainbows activity came about when my boys were working on stacking Easter Eggs. Make sure you check out our Easter Egg Stacking Activity post. It’s another easy activity for preschoolers & toddlers.

While stacking the eggs, we quickly realized we had inadvertently made rainbows! That’s how this Easter Egg Coloring Sorting Activity quickly became an obsession in our home.

So grab all those leftover plastic eggs you can find and get ready to learn and have fun making egg rainbows!

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Easter Egg Color Sorting Activity Tips

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Creating your rainbows will work best if you start out by helping your child sort the Easter eggs into columns or rows by color.

Older, preschool-age children might not need this assistance after you guide them the first time.

Once you have your first columns, your child will fill in around them with the matching colors of the eggs.

In essence, you will be making more columns of similar color eggs next to one another.

Now, you will just continue to fill in with all of your Easter Eggs! If you have tons of leftover Easter eggs lying around, you should have a range of colors to create your rainbow.

Once all of your eggs are sorted by color, you can then move them around into a half-circle, creating your rainbow!

That’s it! The best part is that all you need are plastic Easter eggs for your child to successfully create an eggcellent rainbow.

One of the best parts of this is that the eggs can be all shades of different colors & sizes. If you need some eggs, here is a 144-piece Easter Egg Set.

If you want to add a little variety to the colors of the eggs you are sorting, try some of the egg sets below!

Crystal Clear Diamond Plastic Eggs

Colorful Camo Eggs

Glitter Plastic Eggs

Keep reading for great tips and prompts to help expand your child’s learning while they make their egg rainbow.

Expanding Your Child’s Learning During the Activity

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There are a few ways that you can adapt this activity to work on other areas beyond color recognition. While working on the rainbows, here are a few questions to ask your child:

• Can you find 3 blue eggs?
• Where is your stack of yellow eggs?
• How many pink eggs do you have in your stack?
• Can you put the orange eggs next to the yellow eggs?

These questions, and others that you come up with, will help your child expand their knowledge with numbers, counting, and patterns too.

If you want more ideas on working on patterns, our Easter Egg Stacking Activity goes into those in more detail.