23 Ways to Use Plastic Easter Eggs

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Do you wonder all the ways you can use or reuse plastic Easter Eggs? Here are 23 awesome ideas!
1. Recycled Plastic Egg Bugs
2. Educational Easter Egg Activities
3. Number Snake Threading
5. Easter Egg Word Families
6. Easter Egg Compound Words
7. Easter Egg Caterpillars
8. Five Fun Ways to Play and Learn with Plastic Eggs
9. Rolled Easter Egg Painting
10. Fourteen Ways to Use Plastic Eggs with Kids
11. Learning Activities that use Plastic Eggs
12. Painting with Plastic Easter Eggs
13. Aluminum Foil Fairy Circle
14. Spring Easter Yarn Egg Craft Bumble Bee Tutorial
15. Fun and Yummy Gelatin Eggs
16. Halloween Spiders from Easter Eggs
17. Easter Egg Hot Air Balloons
18. Plastic Egg Mini Planting Pots
19. Easter Egg Cupcake Box
20. Easter Egg Recycle Rock Star Craft
21. Make Your Own Plastic Egg Teacups
22. Recycled Egg Snake
23. Plastic Monster Eggs
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Do you end up with empty plastic eggs everywhere after Easter? Wondering what on earth to do with them? Well, come Easter, you’ll be thanking me for these ideas for repurposing them! Included in this round up of ideas are:

Great learning activities such as Educational Easter Egg Activities; 5 Fun Ways to Play and Learn with Plastic Eggs; Easter Egg Word Families; Easter Egg Opposites; 14 Ways to Use Plastic Eggs with Kids; and 7 Learning Activities that use Plastic Eggs.I think boys will go crazy for the Recycled Plastic Egg Bugs, Number Snake Threading, Easter Egg Caterpillars, Halloween Spiders from Easter Eggs, Recycled Egg Snake, and Plastic Monster Eggs.
Fun and creative projects such as Rolled Easter Egg Painting, Painting with Plastic Easter Eggs, Aluminum Foil Fairy Circle, DIY Maracas and Kids’ Spring Easter Yarn Egg Craft Bumble Bee Tutorial are fun and creative projects to do.
Really clever projects including Easter Egg Hot Air Balloons, Plastic Egg Mini Planting Pots, Easter Egg Cupcake Box, Easter Egg Recycle Rock Star Craft, and Make Your Own Plastic Egg Teacups.

With all of these fun ideas, you might have to go out and buy more eggs:

1. Recycled Plastic Egg Bugs

From Free Kids Crafts

These Plastic Egg Bugs are so much fun! All you need are pipe cleaners, a sharpie, a glue gun and some googly eyes and you’re good to go. Oh, and don’t forget your plastic eggs!

2. Educational Easter Egg Activities

From The Happy Teacher

These Educational Easter Egg Activities are great for after school learning, and they’re all super easy to do. With 4 language activities, 3 math exercises, and extensions for all of them, you’ll put those Easter eggs to great use!

3. Number Snake Threading

From I Can Teach My Child

This number snake is great for fine motor skills and for teaching your kids about number sequencing. Plus it’s adorable and really easy to make, so definitely worth a try!

4. DIY Maracas

From Spaceships and Laser Beams

These DIY Maracas are perfect for Cinco de Mayo. Easy to make and fun to play with, they’ll keep your kids happy long after Easter’s forgotten.

5. Easter Egg Word Families

From Having Fun at Home

I love this idea for Easter Egg Word Families — put the beginning letters of a family of words on one side, and the end of the words on the other, and you’ve got a fantastic language activity!

6. Easter Egg Compound Words

From Lesson Plan Diva

Write a bunch of words and their opposites on the eggs, then get your kids to match them up. A fun educational activity that costs absolutely nothing.

7. Easter Egg Caterpillars

From Child Central Station

These Caterpillars are all about color and pattern, plus, this great educational activity leaves your kids with a fun toy to play with.

8. Five Fun Ways to Play and Learn with Plastic Eggs

From Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas

Here are some great language and math activities. You don’t need anything other than plastic Easter eggs and a sharpie for any of them, so they’re great if you have limited supplies.

9. Rolled Easter Egg Painting

From Tinkerlab

This is a super fun and easy way for your kids to get into the Easter spirit — just cover an Easter egg in paint, and roll away.

10. Fourteen Ways to Use Plastic Eggs with Kids

From Scribble Doodle and Draw

This is a super fun and easy way for your kids to get into the Easter spirit — just cover an Easter egg in paint, and roll away!

11. Learning Activities that use Plastic Eggs

From No Time for Flash Cards

These fun activities are great for learning and playing, especially for younger kids.

12. Painting with Plastic Easter Eggs

From Buggy and Buddy

This super creative and original art project will leave you with something gorgeous to stick on your fridge, and all you need is Easter eggs, paper and paint.

13. Aluminum Foil Fairy Circle

From Filth Wizardry

This is one of my all-time favorites — tiny foil forest mushrooms! Make them all in different colors to create a gorgeous fairy circle.

14. Spring Easter Yarn Egg Craft Bumble Bee Tutorial

From The Inadvertent Farmer

These are 14 fun educational ways to use plastic eggs, including language activities, addition and counting activities, and even some fine motor skill development games.

15. Fun and Yummy Gelatin Eggs

From NeatORama

Simple and delicious, your kids will love helping out with these Gelatin Eggs.

16. Halloween Spiders from Easter Eggs

From Chica and Jo

With all these great activities you might not have any plastic eggs left by Halloween, but these spiders are so cute you might just have to buy more!

17. Easter Egg Hot Air Balloons

From Snowdrop and Company

This is a slightly more complex craft, but just look at the results… These whimsical hot air balloons make the perfect decorations.

18. Plastic Egg Mini Planting Pots

From Coffee Cups and Crayons

I can’t believe I hadn’t thought of this myself! Using the plastic eggs as tiny planting pots is a great way to teach kids all about how plants grow, and it’s a great way to recycle too.

19. Easter Egg Cupcake Box

From Creativity in Progress

Aren’t these cupcakes adorable? This is such an original idea, and the cupcakes will be fun to play with long after Easter.

20. Easter Egg Recycle Rock Star Craft

From Club Chica Circle

Bring out your inner rock star with this fun microphone and stand, and let your kids go wild.

21. Make Your Own Plastic Egg Teacups

From Creativity in Progress

Another one of my favorites, I just love these teacups. They’re so easy to make, and each cup will reflect your kid’s individual style.

22. Recycled Egg Snake

From We Made That

Another one of my favorites, I just love these teacups. They’re so easy to make, and each cup will reflect your kid’s individual style.

23. Plastic Monster Eggs

From Spaceships and Laser Beams

Simple to make but so much fun, these Monster Eggs are perfect for everything from Easter to Halloween.

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