Easter Egg Sort

Materials

multi-colored jellybeans

Instructions

* Easter is usually celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon
following the vernal equinox (first day of Spring). This can fall anywhere
between March 22nd and April 25th.
1. Depending on the age of the children, help them sort colored jellybeans
into homogeneous piles or have them sort the jellybeans by themselves.
2. Show children how to open the plastic eggs.
3. Ask them to insert yellow jellybeans into yellow eggs, green jellybeans
into green eggs, and so on.
More to do Math: Encourage the children to count the jellybeans in each egg.