Springtime and Easter Activity Shelves

Because of our Disneyland trip at the beginning of March, we pretty much skipped any St. Patrick's Day fun this year and went straight to Easter and the onset of spring.

This month, along with the usual toys, our kitchen activity shelves are stocked with:

• stuffed bunnies, ducks, and lambs
• generic springtime books (we really haven't collected many books in this category, so I don't have any recommendations for you)
• uppercase/lowercase matching eggs
• plastic eggs shaped like bugs, nets, and a pail - We scatter the eggs around the kitchen floor and scoop them with the nets to return them to the pail.
• sound shaker eggs - I filled two eggs each with pennies, sand, beans, and other noisy filler and hot glued them closed. The kids shake them to match the sounds.