Easter Egg Pattern Match Game

Make Easter extra special with a fun and educational Easter Egg pattern matching activity perfect for three-year-olds! Older kids can color and decorate the eggs, then the younger kiddos can match patterns, shapes, or colors for hours of engaging play. This hands-on activity boosts creativity, fine motor skills, and early learning, all while celebrating the joy of sharing and helping others at Easter!

Sometimes, especially during a school break, you need an activity that will occupy older kids as well as the younger ones. These kid-made pattern eggs are simple but full of love.

Easter Egg Pattern Match Game–For Kids, By Kids:

Pattern matching is a really important skill for the pre-school set because it leads a little later on to letter and letter group recognition. But for right now, it’s just a really fun game for the littles and great way to encourage older kids to help make learning fun.

This is like the Alphabet Egg Hunt–Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Match set but because it’s for pre-readers it is obviously without the letters.

Get Ready

Print out the eggs on bright white card stock so they are nice and sturdy. I like using the cardstock also because it holds up to markers better and allow the colors to *pop*. We found out that having the pattern go across the crack line before we cut them apart worked much better than doing each half separately.

If you use stickers you can cut through those too. If your kids don’t want to cut through stickers (and some kids are like that) then just make sure there are enough matching stickers for each half.

You might want to include several eggs that have the same colors, basic shapes and same layout so that the littles have to look a little more closely to make a match. You could throw some letters on a few just to get them started on letter recognition, although at this point it’s still mostly shape recognition so pick letters with distinctive shapes like S A and B. Using their name on the eggs is also fun.

Then if you want them to really last go ahead and laminate them after the kids decorate them. (I may have mentioned a time or two how much I love laminating and this is the machine I use).

I love how this activity encourages big kids to create for and teach little kiddos. Planning ahead and creating the top and bottom pattern to match is also a good brain stretcher for them!

Include the Whole Family

The rest is pretty simple. Let the kids mix up the egg halves and then see who can match the most the fastest or just enjoy the process.

So there you are, just a quick little something you can print out and make ahead of time or bring to your Easter gathering, and have cousins, siblings, aunts, uncles, and friends create for the little ones of the crew!

I hope you have a happy and blessed Easter season!

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