language you can work on during your Easter egg hunt

If you are doing an easter egg hunt with your child this weekend, here are 4 different ideas of how you can boost their language at the same time!

Discuss their size

As you collect each egg you can talk about the size of it. E.g. ‘Wow you found a ‘BIG’ egg’. Once you have collected the eggs you can try sorting them into 2 piles of ‘big’ eggs and ‘little’ eggs.

If your child already understands and uses big/little why not introduce other size words e.g. huge, tiny. Or talk about which one is ‘larger’.

Work on prepositions (e.g. in, on, under)

Discuss where the eggs are highlighting prepositions (e.g. “under the table”, “in the basket’.
If your child already knows in/on/under then you can also introduce more difficulties prepositions e.g. “behind the tree”, “in front of the sofa’, ‘next to the pink egg’.

Introduce feelings

Why not draw different emotion faces on the eggs and talk about the outward features of different emotions (e.g. smiling mouth, closed eyes, frowning eyebrows etc.).
You can take this further by asking your little one to act out the different emotions or giving you can example of when they have felt like this.

Work on colours

As your child collects an egg you can model the colour e.g. ‘blue egg’. ‘yellow egg’. Once you have collected all the eggs you could try sorting them into their different colours (giving you the opportunity to model the colour names again).