Easter Egg Race
Color an even number of eggs, half the number one color,
the other
half, another. Place all the eggs of one color on the floor
in a line
at intervals of one foot. At the end of the line put a
basket. Form a
similar line, a little distance from the other, of the
remaining eggs.
For convenience, we will say one line is of green eggs,
the other of
pink.
Choose two players as leaders, who select their sides.
One side
chooses the green row, and the other, the pink. Two, one
player from
each side, play at a time.
When all is ready the two leaders stand by their respective
rows, each
is given a large spoon, and when told to "go," each
one spoons up the
eggs, one at a time, and carries them to the basket at
the end of the
line. The one who succeeds in spooning up all his eggs
first wins for
his side.
Thus each player in turn works for his side until all
have had a
chance and the side whose players were the most successful
is the
winning side.
Rolling Eggs
Mark on the table, or on the floor,
if preferred, with chalk, four
parallel lines, eight or ten feet long, and four or five
inches apart.
Thus there are three narrow spaces. At the end of each
space make a
circle, numbering the middle one 10, and the other two,
5. The middle
space is marked 3, and the other two, 1.
The object of the game is to have each child roll five
eggs, one at a
time, down the middle space to the circles at the ends.
If the egg
goes into the middle circle, it counts 10, but if it stops
in the
middle space, it counts only 3, and so on, counting the
number of the
place where it stops.
Tally is kept for each child, the one scoring the most
points wins the
game.
These game activities comes from Games for Everybody
