It's that time of the year when I get a {little} sneaky and use
our plastic Easter eggs to have a {little} extra fun learning.
My son Jay loves maps. He's pretty good at reading them so
the other day we bought a compass for him at the store to try out.
All the way home he told me which direction I was driving.
It was a lot of fun!
So instead of the usual Easter egg hunt, I put together a
Direction egg hunt to help him practice learning to follow
directions and direct himself using north, south, east, and west
with his compass.
Kay isn't quite ready for the compass so her egg hunt was
about counting her steps and practicing left and right.
With Easter coming up and plastic eggs everywhere,
I thought I would share {this little} resources with you
as a fun way to practice learning to move in the right direction.
The great thing about using colored eggs is that when you hide
them you can note which color that the kids will find first,
second, etc.--just in case they get confused at some point
and need to backtrack. Re-tracing their steps is all part of
learning which way to go.
For each egg I put in a paper in that describes:
the type of movement (walking forward/backward, hop, etc.)
the direction of the movement (right/left, or north/south, etc.)
Here are some fill-in the blank papers I used:
Compass Egg Hunt Directions
