Every year after Easter I have what seems like a million plastic egg halves (yes, halves because my kids take them apart and then leave them strewn all over the house) floating around. I always wonder what to do with them; it seems like a waste to throw them away, but by now the kids are tired of playing egg hunt. I don't even remember where I got this idea from, but today I gathered up as many matching halves as I could find and made shakers out of them for Ivan.
They were super easy too. I found a bunch of different things to go inside that would sound different from other thing when shaken. I used rice, oatmeal, corn kernels, sugar, pennies, pebbles, tin foil, bird seed, and navy beans...just things I had around the house, but the possibilities of what you could use are pretty much endless. I filled each egg, then super glued it shut and wrote on the outside what was inside each one. Just in case the kids and I ever get into a discussion on sound I would be able to say things like, see the pennies are louder than the sugar, and so on. Needless to say Ivan L-O-V-E-D them. I think he carried the basket of eggs around with him the rest of the day, and always had a least one egg in hand to shake.
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I've made matches and the boys have to listen to the sounds in the eggs and then match them up. They love it! It's a little over brayden's head, but he's slowly starting to get it. Taylor LOVES it!
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