Our Easter Shelves.

I swapped our shelves this morning! As always, I left any activities that were still being used and loved. But here’s a peek at what’s new and what we’ll be up to for the next few weeks. It’s heavily influenced by Easter but mostly I just try to incorporate activities I think they’ll enjoy!

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I do tend to sort the activities between Eva’s and Lola’s shelves but they mix them up and take turns and Eva’s naturally drawn to anything that’s not meant for her! 🙂 She tends to steer clear of anything too difficult for her (numbers and sounds) but anything art-related or fine motor-related is something she’ll gravitate toward. But for the purpose of clarity, here’s Eva’s shelf:

I kept out the felt flowers in a row by Lovevery. This is part of the Helper Kit which I plan to do a review of soon! We’ve had this kit since her birthday last November!

I added this chunky shape puzzle. Even though she’s really good at matching the puzzle pieces into the frame, it’s also a great opportunity for language! We can talk about names of shapes, the colors and more.

Spooning and Tonging are always hits, so they are available, too. The eggs are from Michael’s and the tiny chicks and tools for these works are from… Target! People always ask me about these trays and they are from the bathroom section at Target.

One of our favorite activities around the holidays (any holiday) is to decorate our small birch tree from World Market. So I added some hanging Easter eggs.

The lockbox has been out since Christmas time. Everyone loves it!

She has two options for egg matching: the first is this set which matches shapes and the second is this set which matches colors and shapes and also matches facial expressions.

The flower garden building toy stayed put and I added some playdough with Easter-themed shapes.

She’s also been interested in animals! So I put out some of our touch and feel animal cards to match with 3D objects.

And last on her shelf is the lockbox by Lovevery. Here’s my review of the box this material comes in.

And now for things that are on Lola’s shelves! First up, is this geo shape cork board work. She loves the hammering aspect. Here is a similar (larger) version.

I left out the globe and the flashlight which I talked about here, and then added an Easter-themed tic tac toe game! It’s from the Target (3) Dollar Spot.

I made a quick game out of Easter eggs and a sharpie! I added some facial expressions to each egg and paired the work with a mirror so that she could practice making different expressions in the mirror. This not only helps with muscle and motor planning but it’s also a great opportunity to talk about emotions and self-regulating those emotions.

I always like to include a puzzle so I put out our parts of a turtle puzzle. Here’s a similar version and honestly probably is better quality!

I also did a quick DIY 1-10 Easter egg counting work.

I added more spring cutting strips because they went over well and then added a DIY Easter egg sound work! Each purple egg matches to a green egg: for example, one purple egg has 2 pennies inside as does 1 green egg. I used items I found around the house… cheerios, a handful of perler beads, pom poms, and wooden tiles make up the insides of the other eggs. It’s just important to put the same amount of whatever the item is in both a purple and green egg so that they truly sound alike.

I also brought back our DIY Cosmic Nesting boxes. You may remember that material from this post.

And lastly, I put out a basket of Easter eggs and small canvas bags so they can practice hiding and finding Easter eggs. They love playing egg hunt.

And there you have it! Of course, their other toys are available too — the kitchen set, a slide, a trampoline, baby doll stuff, dress-up, the nugget… and BOOKS! So many books.