Easter Egg Stacking Activity for Preschoolers & Toddlers

This Easter Egg Stacking Activity for preschoolers and toddlers is going to be a hit with your kids!

It uses traditional plastic Easter eggs and that is it! No mess, just the fun of tumbling towers of eggs. It can be as simple as stacking the eggs as high as you can, or you can adapt the activity to make it harder for older kids.

Keep reading to see all of the fun ways to do the egg stacking activity.

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How to Start the Easter Egg Stacking Activity for Toddlers

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First, you can simply show your little one how to start stacking the eggs by placing them one on top of the other.

They will move from stacking two eggs to three, four, etc. This is great fine motor work for little hand muscles by the way.

Once they can master these shorter towers you can move them on to the next level of egg stacking.

Just a note, you can use eggs that are hinged together. You’ll simply stack two towers up at a time. This is easier for preschool children than toddlers.

How to Start the Easter Egg Stacking Activity for Preschool

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Once your child has mastered stacking the eggs, you can begin focusing on other areas such as color recognition. patterns, and math skills.

Stacking Eggs Using Colors

Have your child begin stacking the Easter eggs up in towers by color. For example, all the blue eggs go in one tower, the green in another, and so on.

If your child easily does this, you could encourage them to work on the shades of the colors. For example, you could start stacking with darker blue and move up to lighter blue eggs.

Also, you could have them stack going in order of the rainbow! ROYGBIV (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) is the acronym for helping children remember the order of the rainbow.

Counting with Easter Eggs

To include counting in the egg stacking activity you could challenge your child to do several things.

First is to simply have your child count the eggs as they place them on the stacks. Or they could count them once they have built an almost toppling tower.

Also, you could ask your child to stack 100 eggs in 10 towers. Or ask them to stack 40 eggs in even towers.

Finally, you could ask them to see which color of eggs they can stack in the highest tower. Will the blue eggs make a taller tower than the pink?

Patterns with Easter Eggs

You can also work on patterns while doing the Easter Egg Stacking Activity. You can encourage older children to create their patterns. Younger children will benefit from you providing a pattern to follow.

A few beginning patterns for young children are:

• ABAB
• AABB
• AAABAAAB
• ABBBABB
• ABCABCABC
• AABBCCAABBCC

Stacking Easter Eggs by Sizes

Most eggs have a smaller, circular half and a longer, thinner half. Your child could sort the eggs based on differences in size making stacks for each.

Or if you have a large assortment of eggs you have from over the year, they could stack the eggs from largest on the bottom to smallest on top.

Do you need eggs but won’t leave the house anytime soon? Here is an option:

150 Count Traditional Color Plastic Eggs

Even More Easter Activities for Kids

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Hopefully, your child has as much fun as my boys do stacking their Easter Eggs!

If they have a new love for eggs, check out this free, Printable Easter Matching Game. It also uses eggs and is a perfect addition to go along with your Easter Egg Stacking Activity.