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Easter Egg balance scale activity

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Plastic Easter eggs are everywhere at Easter time. Why not put them to use for some Easter learning?

In this Easter egg balance scale activity, I used weighted Easter eggs to have my kids practice weighing objects.

Note: For more Easter learning ideas, see my Easter Activities for Kids page.

Easter egg balance scale activity. This is such fun way to build math skills with kids! || Gift of Curiosity

I set up this activity with the following materials:

  • Our Learning Resources Baby Bear Balance Set
  • Several plastic Easter eggs, each filled with coins to create different weights and taped shut to prevent spilling
  • Counting bears (that came with our Learning Resources Baby Bear Balance Set)
Easter egg balance scale activity. This is such fun way to build math skills with kids! || Gift of Curiosity
 

My kids selected one egg and placed it into one of the buckets on the Balance Set. They then filled the other bucket with plastic bears to equal the weight of the egg.

Easter egg balance scale activity. This is such fun way to build math skills with kids! || Gift of Curiosity

Once they had balanced both sides of the scale, we lined up the bears next to the egg to count how many had been needed.

Easter egg balance scale activity. This is such fun way to build math skills with kids! || Gift of Curiosity

We did this for several more eggs. This allowed the kids to visually see that the heavier eggs also needed more bears to balance them than the lighter eggs.

Easter egg balance scale activity. This is such fun way to build math skills with kids! || Gift of Curiosity

This was also a great opportunity to practice math skills. For example, my kids counted the bears and they compared the number of bears needed for one egg with the number needed for a different egg. We talked about concepts like “how many more than” and “how many less than.”

Easter egg balance scale activity. This is such fun way to build math skills with kids! || Gift of Curiosity

Just some simple but effective Easter egg math practice using the balance scale. 🙂

 

More Easter resources

More Easter posts from Gift of Curiosity:

  • Easter Printables Pack
  • Easter sensory bin
  • Easter egg sound matching game
  • Easter Bingo
  • Easter do-a-dot printables
  • Easter coloring pages
  • Easter I Spy game

For more Easter activities and printables your kids will love, see my Easter Activities for Kids page and my Easter Pinterest board.

Filed Under: Spring, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, Easter, Math

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