Eggs Eggs Everywhere

Alicia Kim and Tiffany Langbein

For each child:

• 1 real chicken egg (hard-boiled)
• 1 hollow plastic egg
• 1 small toy animal
• Ostrich Egg drawing (optional)
• Drawing of various eggs (optional)
• Crayons (optional)
• Markers (optional)
• Scissors (optional)

For the group:

•  2 or more containers to hold objects
•  Pictures of chickens hatching from eggs
• A variety of real eggs, such as frog, duck, quail, silk moth, and snail—aquatic or garden
• 1 Snake Laying Eggs poster
• 1 Robin and Her Nest poster
• 1 Ostrich and Her Eggs poster
• Pictures of animals hatching from eggs or laying eggs
• 1 copy of Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones by Ruth Heller
• 6” white paper plates
• 1 two-sided graphing grid
• Labels (3” x 3” Post-Its or paper squares)
• 2 small trays or two 9” white paper plates
• 1 live box turtle
• 1 large toy turtle
• 2 small toy turtles
• 2 ping-pong balls or Styrofoam balls (as turtle eggs)
• 1 toy dog
• 1 tub, such as a dishpan, filled with sand
• 2 or more paper bags
• 1 Turtle Laying Eggs poster
• Colored pictures of turtles and turtle eggs;
• 2 strawberries
• 1 tomato, cut into quarters
• 1 live fish in a fish bowl
• 1 container of fish food
• 1 Fish Laying Eggs poster
• 1 bunch of pond plants
• 1 tub filled with sand and a few dry leaves
• 1 tub filled with water
• 10 or more hollow plastic eggs that open and close
• 5 or more different toy animals that hatch from eggs on land
• 5 or more different toy animals that hatch from eggs in water
• Large blocks, about 3”square
• Small blocks, about 1”square
• A collection of objects that always roll, such as balls—large, small, heavy, light
• A collection of objects that usually don’t roll, such as a small cardboard box
• A collection of objects that sometimes roll, such as an empty spool, a button, a cork, a plastic cup, a paper tube, and a pinecone
• A collection of objects that roll in a circle, such as a Styrofoam cone, plastic funnel, plastic cup, or a plastic toy pear
• Several cardboard boxes, about 12” square
• Several cookie sheets, cafeteria trays, or other flat surfaces that can be inclined
• 1 Murre and Her Egg poster
• 1 pear-shaped murre “egg” about 3 “ long, such as a Styrofoam cone, or clay egg
• 1 black marker, or a peel-and-stick dot
• 1 white sheet and blue sheet, bath towel, or rug (optional)
• Several plastic fish (optional)
• Clay to make turtles and turtle eggs (optional)
• 1 live chicken (optional)