Easter Egg Sensory Play: Pretend Cooking

Are you looking for an easy way to entertain your toddler? Does your child like to pretend to cook? This Easter egg sensory play uses plastic eggs to create a fun sensory experience for your child. Affiliate links are used in this post.

Use plastic Easter eggs for pretend cooking sensory play.

Easter Egg Sensory Play: Pretend Cooking

My kids just love to play with plastic Easter eggs. They open them and close them and scatter them around the house. They also love to pretend to cook. I thought it would be a fun idea to combine the two. Let the kids pretend to cook with ingredients found in the eggs.

What You’ll Need:

  • Large container or baking pan
  • Plastic Easter eggs
  • Bowls, spoons, cups, etc. – we use this Green Toys Dish Set (affiliate link)
  • Dry goods from the pantry
    • rice
    • different flours (rye, whole wheat, masa, etc)
    • cornstarch
    • corn meal
    • oatmeal

Place the dry goods into different plastic eggs. Add the eggs and bowls to a large container.

Set up a sensory bin with plastic Easter eggs.

Allow your child to explore the sensory bin. Encourage her to break open the eggs into a bowl.

Set up a sensory bin with plastic Easter eggs.

I actually set this activity up for my toddler, but my kindergartner wanted to play, too. He requested a funnel and a pot.

Set up a sensory bin with plastic Easter eggs.

Aiden had just as much fun as Lily with this sensory bin.

Use plastic Easter eggs for pretend cooking sensory play.

They happily played together for quite sometime mixing ingredients, stirring, and cooking.

Use plastic Easter eggs for pretend cooking sensory play.

They did get some on the floor, so be prepared to vacuum it up.

Use plastic Easter eggs for pretend cooking sensory play.

You could easily add some measuring practice to this activity. Grab some measuring cups and measuring spoons. Then show your child the correct way to measure with them.

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