Kids can Practice Rhyming Skills with a Fun Egg Hunt

 My girls have been bothering me for nearly a year to dye eggs. Finally we did. There was nothing special about the actual kit, but a simple white crayon made a rhyming game out of it! 

Did you know that rhyming has cognitive benefits? It helps develop memory and literacy as well as promoting language development. In short, rhyming is a necessary skill, so why not make practicing it fun!

Supplies for a Rhyming Egg Hunt

• Hard boiled eggs
• Egg color (any liquid kit should be fine)
• White crayon

How to Make Your Rhyming Eggs

To start with, you boil your eggs. Common sense I know, but I'm pretty excited by this super easy way I learned to hard "boil" lots of eggs at once, in the OVEN! Just place eggs in a mini muffin tin and bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes. After baking place in an ice bath for 10 minutes, and they are ready to eat. Of course, you don't have to cool them as much to dye them, and you don't want to eat them if you are dying them.

After cooling them I used a white crayon to write a word on each egg.  I chose 4 word families and did 4 words in each family. 

The girls were sooooooo excited to dye eggs, and then they learned there would be a surprise.  They were in such a hurry to find the surprise that they barely stuck them in the dye before pulling them out again!

The first two words were dog and mug. No rhymes yet, but they went into the muffin tin to dry.

The girls happily continued dying eggs and finding words. I even convinced them to leave the eggs in a bit longer, so they would be a prettier color.

We lined up the rhyming eggs in the muffin tin as we found them. By the end they had each read all the words and identified which ones rhymed. 

I quickly realized I should have made more eggs.  We had dyed them all and read them a few times, but the girls still wanted to dye eggs.  No problem, they just re-dyed the eggs we already had; might as well add color mixing to the fun!

The colors really did end up quite pretty; even on the few that got dropped!

Once they were happy with all the colored eggs, we hid them outside for more practice. Of course, the girls loved running around to see who could find the most rhymes.

This was such a fun activity that could easily be altered to fit what your child is working on right now.....letters, numbers, sight words, and pretty much anything else you can think of! So if you are dying eggs you might consider adding some learning in too.