It’s almost Easter, and if like me, you just realized you have a 4 day weekend coming up with not many plans, I have a collection of Easter STEAM Activities that will keep your kids entertained and busy all weekend!
Over the years we have shared 8 Easter-themed STEAM Activities on the blog. Some of the activities involve plastic easter eggs, some involve chicken eggs, and one uses Peeps! I am sure you will find at least one activity for your family to try over the long Easter weekend. 🙂
Plastic Egg Easter STEAM Activities
By the week before Easter my house has already been overtaken by plastic easter eggs! They’re in every room, every corner and every toy bin. And I’m sure we’ll only accumulate more by the end of the Easter weekend. Good thing I’ve shared four fun activities to use these eggs! They are so fun for kids of all ages, and many of them the kids will come back to and use again and again.
1. Create your own Weeeble Woobles
This activity is so much fun. You may or may not have ever seen Weeble Wooble toys: “Weebles wooble but they don’t fall down.” They are easy to make at home you just need plastic eggs and play-dough. Face decorations, such as googly eyes, pipe cleaners, stickers, and/or markers are optional (but recommend because it’s cute!).
I originally created this activity 5 years ago with my older two kids when they were little, and I just did it again last weekend with my youngest and older daughters. They still thought it was so much fun! I made a cute video sharing the experiment on Instagram, you can check it out below:
For the full step-by-step details on how to make your own Weeble Wooble, check out the blog post: Create your own Weeble Wooble using Plastic Easter Eggs.
2. Easter Egg Catapult
This is an activity that will keep your kids busy for the entire long weekend. They build the catapult once, then can continue to use it to launch plastic eggs over and over and over again!
You can come up with many challenges, such as who can launch the egg the farthest and/or the shortest distance, does egg size make a difference (try smaller and larger plastic eggs if you have them), does full vs empty plastic egg make a difference (fill an egg with anything from the paper easter grass to candy, to toys), and if you want to get messy try catapulting hard boiled or (should I even suggest this?) raw chicken eggs.
For the full step-by-step details on how to make your own Egg Catapult, check out the blog post: Easter Egg Catapult.
3. Make Towers and Patterns with Plastic Eggs
This is a simple, fun and educational way to use the plastic eggs. It’s perfect for preschool aged kids who are beginning to learn about patterns and counting and practicing fine motor skills. It’s also an awesome challenge for older kids to see who can build the tallest tower.
For the full step-by-step details on how to make your own towers and patterns with plastic eggs, check out the blog post: Create Towers and Patterns using Plastic Easter Eggs.
4. Home Learning with Plastic Eggs
This activity uses plastic eggs to make learning simple concepts such as letters, numbers, sight words, and addition new and interesting. I created letter and number eggs for my 3 year old to practice letter and number identification, and I created the sight word and addition eggs for my 5 year old to practice what he was learning in kindergarten. The eggs made something we would normally do using a book or flashcards seem more exciting and fun!
For the full step-by-step details on how to practice letters, numbers, sight words, and basic math with plastic eggs, check out the blog post: 4 Ways to do Home Learning with Plastic Easter Eggs.
Chicken Egg STEAM Activiities
The following three activities use chicken eggs. At the time of writing this blog post in 2025 eggs are priced at an all time high, so it may not be as practical to do them this year, but save this post to come back to when egg prices go down. You do not want to skip the bouncy eggs activity. It is my kids’ all time favorite STEAM activity!
5. Make a Bouncy Egg
This activity requires a bit of patience: you will want to start this activity ASAP – maybe on Good Friday if your kids have off school, then the egg will be ready to bounce by Easter Sunday. It’s worth the wait though. Soaking the egg in vinegar dissolves the shell and fills the inside with vinegar making the egg soft, larger than it started, and bouncy (but be careful because if you bounce too hard it will explode!). I promise, it’s worth it and so much fun!
For the full step-by-step details on how to make a bouncy egg at home, check out the blog post: Eggsperiment: Make a Bouncy Egg.
6. Egg Spinning with boiled and Raw eggs
Have you ever hard-boiled eggs then can’t remember if they’re hard-boiled or raw? Or just want to learn a fun way to tell the difference, this is a cool and super easy experiment! All you need is a raw egg and a hard-boiled egg. Who knew spinning eggs could be so fun and educational?!
For the full step-by-step details on how to tell the difference between hard-boiled and raw eggs by spinning them, check out the blog post: Spinning Eggs – is it hard boiled or raw?.
7. Learn STEAM Concepts While dying Easter Eggs
My family dyes our Easter eggs the easy way: I buy the Paas egg dying kits. Even with these kits, there are many ways to teach your kids STEAM topics such as science, art and math during the dying process.
For the full step-by-step details on how to learn STEAM while dying eggs, check out the blog post: How to Make Dying Easter Eggs a STEAM Activity for Kids.
This Final STEAM Activity doesn’t involve any eggs: it uses an American favorite Easter candy: Peeps!
8. Peeps Easter STEAM Activity
Last, but not least, is one of my most popular blog posts, and my most popular all-time Instagram reel to learn STEAM using Peeps! It is so simple to set up, and entertaining for the kids. They learn about sink or float and dissolution by placing Peeps into 4 liquids: ice water, room temp water, hot water, and vinegar. You can see the instagram post below, then scroll down for the link to the blog post:
For the full step-by-step details on how to learn STEAM concepts using Peeps, check out the blog post: Peeps Easter STEAM Activity for Kids.
I hope you find an experiment, or two, or five to try this weekend! Happy Easter and good luck with your STEAM Activities! Let me know in the comments which activities you plan to try this weekend.
You can find all these activities, plus 20 other activities for other holidays in my Holiday STEAM Activities for Kids pdf printable pack. check it out below!
Holiday STEAM Activities for Kids
The holidays are a perfect time to plan a few fun and festive STEAM activities. This is a collection of 28 holiday themed STEAM experiments and activities. This printable pack includes a table of contents, an introduction with information about Engineering Emily, an explanation of the meaning of STEAM, what to expect in each activity printable, tips for success, and an overview of the holiday activities, followed by 28 two-and three-page easy and fun holiday themed activities for kids.
