Green Eggs Spinach Quiche

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES:

VOCABULARY

• spinach
• green
• color
• quiche

MATH

• Take plastic colored eggs and pattern them:
• green, blue; green, blue; green, _______
• Have your child predict the next color based upon the pattern you have created

• Plastic Eggs Sorting: Plastic Easter Eggs
• Sort the eggs by color
• Count the eggs

• Graph Colors
• Stack the eggs by color:
• Identify "more", "less" or "equal"

• Chick To Egg Color Match
• Make colored pom pom chicks
• Glue eyes, beak, wings and feet to a 2 inch pom pom
• Repeat for each color
• Children will place chick into appropriate colored plastic egg

• Eggs To Nest 1-10
• Provide paper plate nests numbered 1-10
• Number them 1 to 10
• Have Children count out the appropriate colored eggs

SCIENCE

• Mix yellow and blue (food coloring, paint, etc.) to make green

• Eggshell Planting
• Provide children with the cracked eggshell
• (For this exercise, when cracking eggs to encourage children to break the egg near the top)
• This will give them ¾ of the eggshell to decorate
• They can paint or draw or collage a face onto the egg
• Fill it with soil and sprinkle with grass seed
• Water gently
• The grass will look like hair
• You can glue a flat stand to the bottom or sit them in the egg carton

• Label egg parts: egg, shell, yolk, egg white
  
  
• Place raw eggs in a cup of water
• It will sink
• Add salt a spoonful at a time
• It will eventually float
• Salt makes things buoyant

• What comes from an egg
• Explain how we eat chicken’s eggs, but many animals come from eggs
• Cut out or draw pictures of animals that are hatched that are small enough to fit in plastic eggs
• You can include:
• Dinosaurs
• Snakes
• Turtles
• Peacocks
• Caterpillars, etc.

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Create your own rhymes:
  "Would you eat them in a chair,"
  "Would you eat them with a ______,"
  "In a school with a _______,"
  "In a room with a _______."

ART

• Eggshell Mosaic
• Save eggshells from cooking
• Rinse and remove the membrane (if needed)
• Color in food coloring
• Dry on paper towels
• Have your child break the shells
• Have your child glue the broken shells onto paper to create a mosaic

• Decoupage Eggs
• Wash the egg
• (ADULTS ONLY) Using a pin, carefully pierce the top and bottom of a raw egg
• Use a straightened paperclip to break the yolk by inserting into the hole
• (ADULTS ONLY) Over a bowl, blow the contents out of the egg
• When the egg is empty and dry, your child may dye or paint with acrylic paint
• Supply pictures or let the child cut out pictures and decoupage them onto the egg
• A variation of this is to create an egg person or animal with the blown out egg
• Use a straightened paperclip to break the yolk by inserting into the hole
• Supply paint and collage material

VISUAL MEMORY

• Place 5 colored eggs in a row
• Have the children close their eyes and remove one egg
• Have them open their eyes
• Ask "Which one is missing?"