Dyeing Eggs with Toddlers

How do you safely dye eggs with toddlers?

I've done this method before when there was a parent for each child

so how do you I make it safe for my three?

 The main change was to replace shaving cream with cool whip.

And I diluted the food colouring so their hands wouldn't be totally dyed.

 For the twins this was all about discovery.

 The texture and the taste

and trying to make the egg move.

 Of course putting them in the same chairs that they eat, with their bibs on may have sent a message that it was time to eat.  I couldn't think of any other way to do this without having it all over the house.  And unfortunately it was a rainy day so we couldn't do it outside.

 Here are the eggs before the cool whip was washed off.

The colour isn't as bright since the food colouring had been diluted with water.  But it doesn't matter as the process was so much fun.

More Plastic Egg Play

Today I brought out the plastic eggs again

because the twins parents had these flat cardboard boxes that are perfect as ramps.

Love watching their excitement and

 figuring out what happens when she let's go of the egg.

 Doesn't matter how high up they let go of the egg it will still roll down.

Our crawler found another way to play with the eggs.

Oh how they love to dump!

What's in the Tub Tuesday?

Plastic eggs.

Some match but most don't.

They are eggs that I have accumulated over the years.

The large plastic spoons we used before.

 Introducing Jelly Bean Stew song to the twins and reinforcing it for the Older one.

Love these big egg cartons. 

I thought we would use them for walking on but they worked great to practice transferring skills.

 She walks so much more confidently in just one month than the last time we used the spoons.

I added baskets for them to fill and carry.

More What's Inside Eggs

The next toy I brought, to continue our discovery of eggs, is an egg full of animals.

Some come from eggs some don't.

She loved looking at each of the animals.

There is something about little toys that is attractive.

Our focus was to sort them.

Saying they come from eggs and they don't was difficult for her to differentiate so I started to say which comes from an egg and which comes from their momma.

Eggs! What's Inside of Them

The Little One is showing some interest in eggs so I dug out a few toys that I used at StrongStart.

Here is an 'incubator' filled with eggs.

Each egg has a creature that comes from an egg.

Two of the books we read before opening the eggs were Hatch and

Guess What is Growing Inside this Egg.

She did great opening the eggs and figuring out each creature.

We spent time building vocabulary around eggs, hatching, and all the animal names.

After all the eggs were emptied I brought out pictures of each creature for her to match.

Easter Fun

Since this is our first grand child it is a year full of firsts, 

especially around the holidays.

It's the time that as a family you introduce your traditions, customs and beliefs to the newest members of the family.

My daughter talked about having an egg hunt and if I thought the little one would be old enough to be interested.

One way to find out was to do a bit of play around eggs before the hunt happens.

We set up a sensory table with shredded blue paper and plastic eggs.

It included eggs that looked like chicks, rubber ducks and a couple of chicks that were dressed as rabbits (but when you held them they made a 'cheep' sound).

Her dad grabbed an egg carton which was great for some incidental one-to-one corresponding.

She liked filling the carton, taking the eggs in and out.

Then she learned that she could crack the eggs open.

Some of them had little fluffy chicks inside.

She opened and closed so many eggs that she perfected her ASL sign for egg.

She loved this book and finding all the eggs hidden under the flaps.

As Easter drew closer we brought out some bunny ears and had fun hopping around.

 

Easter morning and they hid about a dozen plastic eggs in their backyard.

She loved finding them so much that they kept re-hiding them.

When Opa and I arrived a couple of days after Easter she was excited to have a pretend egg hunt in the house.

Her signing vocabulary is growing really fast.  In this video she amazed us by signing 'where' for the first time.

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