For the beginning readers, have a CVC Word Hunt with the eggs!
I hid the eggs with one letter in each with a good mix of vowels and consonants. Once Spiderman found them all, it was a hop to the finish line.
How many words can you make? Make it more challenging by giving them a time limit.
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Make sure to have at least a few letter comibinations that are familiar to your word builder. Spiderman loves to spell fox. I was careful to include that.
He had a blast, he came up with tons of words, but sometimes did not have enough letters.
In my mind, I set it up as a CVC Word Game, but nobody passed that memo to Spiderman - his goal was to make words that are real.
So he came up with egg when he saw 'e' and 'g', but he had only one g. But at least he knows egg has two g in it!
He spelled frog, another bonus.
He also came up with sight words, which again I did not expect, like no, go, to and the.
So don't be surprised if your kids take the game to a whole another level :)
Batman wanted to play Spy while his brother was off making words. So I came up with a simple code (which turned out to be too simple).
Craft the code depending on the level of your cryptographer. Give him the code cheat sheet, and the first clue/code. He will find the first egg when he "cracks" the first code. The location of the second egg is inside the first egg and so on.
Although the codes were easy, I liked that he did not even have to complete the words to guess the location. So for closet, he only went as far as "CLO---", and guessed the rest. Same for microwave. He only went as far as "MICR------". His logic, it can't be microphone, it's short by a letter, and anyway you can't hide an egg in it. So it has to be microwave!!
I did not expect that bit of deduction!
Some of his clues were written in teeny tiny handwriting, and he had to use his magnifying glass to read the clue.
If you are having a spy/detective themed birthday party, this could be incorporated into the theme.
What eggy games are you upto?
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