Easter Egg Reading Game

This Easter egg reading game is a fun way to practice reading skills. We used it to practice reading and spelling animal words. Place pictures inside the eggs and you could practice any words you like. I get commissions for purchases made through the affiliate links in this post.

Easter Egg Reading Game

We like using Bananagrams letter tiles in our alphabet and reading games. These are perfect for adding to the plastic eggs. You could also use Scrabble tiles, magnet letters, puzzle letters, or any other small letters. You can even cut out paper squares with letter written on them.

Aiden practiced reading a few animal words in our Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt with Picture Clues. I used these words (bunny, fish, and duck) again in our reading game to reinforce the words. I also used more familiar animal words (cat, dog, and pig). After creating the game for Aiden and his friend, I remembered JDaniel4’s Mom practiced sight words by unscrambling egg letters. Aiden’s first grader friend enjoyed playing that game.

Aiden (age 5) is still a beginning reader so I set up his game with some help.

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Letters (We used Bananagrams. Use what you have or make paper squares.)
• Plastic eggs
• Animals (We used various animals from our Safari Ltd TOOBs – Safari Ltd Farm TOOB, Safari Ltd Farm Babies TOOB, and Safari Ltd Coral Reef TOOB. You could also use pictures of animals if you don’t have small toys.)
• A word list – write all of your animal names on a piece of paper for reference.

The Set Up

Place each animal in a plastic egg along with letters to spell its name. Create a word list of all of the animal names.

How to Play

Open an egg and find the animal inside. Spell the name of the animal using the letters found inside the egg. If you need help, find the name of the animal on the word list.

Aiden’s friend liked playing this game but thought the words were too easy. Aiden also liked playing the game, and it was perfect for his reading ability. He opened up the cat egg first.

He didn’t need the word list to spell cat. (We have done lots of practice with -at words. It all started with our Broom Race to Learn -at Words.)

He also didn’t need help with pig. We had fun learning -ig words in our Raining Hearts Word Game.

Once he got to fish, he sounded out the word and found the letter f to start the word. Then, he looked at the word list for a word that started with f. Aiden copied what he saw on paper with the letter tiles.

He did the same with dog, duck, and bunny.

More Early Reading Games with Easter Eggs

Each of these activities uses plastic Easter eggs to practice reading or spelling skills in unique ways.

• {Dolch Sight Words} Unscrambling Egg Letters from JDaniel4’s Mom
• Egg Scavenger Hunt to Make Words from hands on : as we grow
• Beginning Sounds Easter Egg Game from Growing Book by Book
• Easter Spelling Words with Plastic Eggs from A Mom with a Lesson Plan

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This post was originally published on March 30, 2015.