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Egg Toss

This was the first game we played for our Easter theme which you can see here


Materials: 

  • plastic eggs
  • 4 plastic cups
  • masking tape
Rules: 
  1. tape the four cups together.  I put number stickers inside the cups for point value
  2. place tape on the floor for a starting line
  3. place the cups desired distance from the starting line
  4. Each dragon had 3 tries to get an egg into a cup.  They had to stand behind the line and toss the egg into a cup
  5. winner is the person with the most points.  We did not play for x amount of rounds or time, we played until the dragons were finished playing. 
Little Dragon and Summer Dragon were fairly good at this game.  All 3 dragons impressed me with their math skills.  Adding 3 and 4 points to their current score was very easy for them.  I thought they would use their fingers for counting but they would collect their eggs and give me their new score with out missing a beat.  

They didn't even realize they were exercising their brains!

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