Day 297: egg hunting

If your kiddos are like mine we will be hunting for easter eggs for the next few weeks. Now that they have done it once they will want to do an egg hunt everyday. SO, I try to mix it up and add in new ideas to keep the activity fun and challenging.

Today even though our easter egg hunt was indoors we still did some hunting for eggs outdoors. REAL ones!

We have been finding broken bird eggs around our yard and thought it would be neat to go look for them again today. We have also had a LOT of bird nests popping up around our yard.

Some that are falling out of trees.

And then some were built in places that don't really work very well for us and had to be removed.

This is an incredibly built nest and though I am sad for the birds that won't get to use it I am also super excited that Sam and I got to take a close up look at how it was so carefully built.

Sam had fun looking for the real bird eggs and nests today. Along with a lot of other outside fun!

If you also have kids that love egg hunts try using the game to learn about camouflage. Just like we did with the paper rabbits you can hide the eggs in places that match their color and then have great discussions about which ones were harder to find and why.

If you have access to grasses, straw, sticks and mud you could also build BIG bird nests to hold your plastic eggs. Try and find some birds nests to look at first as examples and then let your kids to to town with the materials making their own.

Hope you all had a Happy Easter and a great weekend!

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The Nitty Gritty!

Just a few more updates for those that might be interested.

The mud kitchen got its first use today and Sam was SO excited.

And I am not sure this is what my mom had in mind for her antique kitchen utensils but Sam loved playing with these things today!

I put out old pans, cookie sheets, cutting boards and other unusable kitchen items for Sam to play with. She had a blast with it today and actually did not get as muddy as I had expected her too, but since it wasn't that warm she probably did not really want to get that wet. When summer comes and we can hose off after mud play I think she will probably get much messier!

We also got the bird feeders back up and fully filled. The Target paint your own bird feeder that we made is holding up pretty well, it does need to be filled VERY often but is pretty cute when the birds are using it.

We also went for a family bike ride, got the first grass cutting of the season taken care of and started working on Sam's water wall (more on that later!). A great outside day!!

4 Comments

Sounds like a great day of outdoor fun! I'm loving your mud kitchen & look forward to hearing about the water wall. Am thinking our backyard needs a little more playful inspiration.

Posted by: Debi | 04/24/2011 at 07:49 PM