Egg Shaking Listening and Matching Activity

I keep seeing different versions of this game around on the blogs so I figured I’d try making one of my own. I started with a dozen plastic eggs and made six matching pairs. I made sure that each pair wasn’t the same color so they had to depend on the sound to match them. I used pennies, round stones, googley eyes, rice, popcorn kernels and pompoms. I started by putting them all in the basket. That way they can use the egg carton to help them keep track of their matches.







Another way to do the activity is if there are enough kids, give each one an egg and see who else has the egg that makes the same sound. That might be a good circle time activity.

Finally, a third way to do this activity is to make a key like I did below. I taped each object to the piece of paper. You can start with the six eggs that correspond to the object. See if the child can match the object with the sound. You can add the other six eggs to make it a little harder or do 12 objects instead of six. You can do any number of eggs you want. I chose twelve because I had an egg carton to put them in.

Easter Match

Here are pictures for an Easter memory game. You can cut the pictures out, put them on card stock and laminate them to make them last.

 

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Weather Match and More

I’ve seen a few ideas for a weather theme on the blogs lately and thought I’d add a couple of my own. The matching game has pictures of different kinds of weather. There is the sun, a day with a blue sky, wind blowing the trees, a snowflake and a cloud with raindrops. The matching pictures either are something you’d wear in that type of weather or something you can do. In the wind, you can fly a kite, if you are out in the bright sun, you’d need to put on sunglasses etc.

 

Weather Recordings:
Here are some recordings to go along with a weather or seasons theme. they are good to have on in the background or for a listening area.

Lazy Summer Day - The Warm Sounds Of Summer
Light Spring Rain
Thunder Storm By the Sea
Thundering Rain Storm
Wind Blizzard
Windy Wasteland: Nature Sounds Only Version

Check out these weather themed activities and this awesome weather sensory tub from Counting Coconuts.
You'll find some neat weather art and science ideas here on Mrs. Karen's blog.


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Valentines Match

Here's a Valentines memory game. You can cut the pictures out, put them on card stock and laminate them to make them last.

 

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