Children love to put things together and learn interactively, which is what makes them learn better. Further, when they participate in innovative and simple-to-prepare activities, the skills they would have otherwise taken a long time to learn will have been acquired easily and within little to no time:
Suitable For:
This activity is designed for children between three and five years of age, as they can learn how to count and recognize numbers. Simple to prepare, engaging in this activity can help develop the various relevant skills of your children.
What You’ll Learn:
1. Counting Skills – Children can easily master counting and mathematical skills (particularly addition and subtraction) when they engage in the Easter Egg number activity.
2. Math Skills – Kids can learn to make new mathematical calculations and learn how to count, add, and subtract numbers when they take part in this activity.
3. Learning and Retention – When children take part in the Easter egg number activity, they can learn how to perform new mathematical calculations with relative ease as compared to learning by rote. This way, they will also be able to retain concepts, ideas, and numbers much better than before since they will be learning interactively.
4. One-To-One Correspondence – Upon completing this activity several times in a row, children will be able to comprehend which number corresponds to which of the objects that are related to this activity.
5. Engaging Both Sides Of The Brain – Engaging in the Easter egg number activity can make your children engage both the creative side as well as the logical side of the brain at the same time.
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Material Required:
1. Card Paper Base: Keep at least one big card paper sheet ready for preparing the base for this activity.
2. Card Paper Sheets: Keep at least one card paper sheet for preparing the Easter eggs, one for a spatula, one for a frying pan, and one for the yolks of broken Easter eggs.
3. Duster: To clear the erasable markings and writing made by the whiteboard markers on top of the sticky cello tape strips
4. Scissors: To cut the card paper sheets into Easter eggs, a spatula, a frying pan, and the yolks of broken Easter eggs, and to cut the sticky cello tape to size.
5. Whiteboard Markers: To color the Easter eggs, the bottom part of the card paper base, and write the numbers on top of the sticky tapes that have been stuck to the bottom of the card paper base and individual Easter egg yolks.
6. Sticky Cello Tape: To stick it across the base of the card paper foundation and individual egg yolks, for being able to perform the number writing part of this activity.
The Procedure for Preparing:
1. Prepare the card paper base –
Keep a card paper sheet ready for use as a card paper base for this game activity. Make sure, though, that you stick colorful paper strips at the bottom of the card paper base and draw three Easter eggs next to each other on the left-hand side bottom of the card paper base, and the yolk of an Easter egg on the right-hand side bottom of the same before you can stick the sticky cello tape strip on top of each of them.
2. Prepare the egg yolks, Easter eggs, spatula, and frying pan –
Prepare at least seventeen egg yolks with the card paper sheets, three Easter eggs, a spatula, and a frying pan by cutting out the card paper sheets in those shapes and coloring them with the various whiteboard markers.
3. Encourage your children to participate –
Ask your children to write the numbers they wish to add or subtract with the relevant mathematical symbols on top of the sticky tape strip of the three Easter eggs, use the spatula to place the number of Easter egg yolks as the end result, and the egg yolks bearing the marked end result of their mathematical calculations on the right-hand side of the Easter eggs. That way, they will learn how to perform mathematical calculations with ease and interest.
4. Erase and rewrite new numbers and calculations –
Use the duster to erase the existing mathematical calculations and numbers made with whiteboard markers. Then, write a fresh set of calculations as per your wish and perform the activity yet again.
5. Review and Repeat –
Review the activity each time your children complete it and make them repeat it until they have mastered it. The more your kids participate in the activity, the better their math skills will be.
Matching the correct results of your children’s mathematical calculations to the corresponding number of egg yolks by placing that many egg yolks on the frying pan with the spatula can help your kids learn math better.
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