Practice math skills with felt Easter eggs. This simple tray activity presents a fun invitation to toddlers and preschoolers to play with felt cutouts. Kids can count, sort and match Easter eggs in this hands-on Easter themed activity.

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Easter egg activities come in all shapes and sizes, and use many different materials. 

This felt activity is a simple way to provide an Easter egg activity that supports so many early learning skills. It combines fine motor and sensory fun, while promoting math skills such as counting and sorting.

Felt is an awesome material to use in crafts . It is easy to work with and very durable for kids to handle over and over.

We've used other materials to make eggs, especially recyclables.

• We made cardboard eggs with washable paint and sparkling glitter.
  
  
• We used colorful craft tape on egg shapes cut from foam trays.

This felt activity provides more ways for kids to use materials hands-on to explore and learn.

It promotes color recognition along with the math and sensory play. Kids will sort, count and match colors and shapes, and copy patterns.

They also have the opportunity to create new designs, and engage fine motor skills to decorate the eggs.

Invite kids to create Easter eggs with this felt tray activity that is easy to set up and mess free!

Felt Easter egg activity

Prepare the activity:

Cut out two sets of egg shapes from various colors of felt.

Glue small pieces of felt to one set of felt eggs, creating colorful patterns and designs.

Place the prepared set of felt eggs on a tray lined with felt, along with a set of plain egg shapes, along with small pieces of felt in the shapes and colors matching the ones on the prepared eggs.

• If you don't have a tray handy, we have a tutorial for making a craft tray from a box lid that would work just as well for this activity.

How to play:

Choose a plain egg. Find the matching egg color on the tray. Place small felt cutouts on the plain egg to match the design on the decorated egg.

As your child plays, talk about the different colors of the eggs, and the shapes being used to make the patterns.

Independent play

Leave the tray in the play area, or arts and crafts corner, so kids can create their own designs on the felt eggs.

• This provides a great opportunity for creative learning through child-led play. 

Easter crafting provides valuable sensory and creative experiences for kids.