04/25/2025
🐰✨ It may look like just a fun Easter egg hunt, but for our Head Start and Early Head Start kiddos, it’s a meaningful learning experience packed with developmental benefits!
🌟 Here’s what they’re learning through play:
👟 Gross Motor Skills
Running across the grass, squatting down, reaching high, and carrying baskets all strengthen coordination, balance, and core stability — essential for everyday movement and future academic tasks like sitting still and writing.
🤲 Fine Motor Skills
Grasping small eggs and opening them to explore what’s inside helps build hand strength and finger dexterity — important for writing, dressing, and using tools.
🧠 Cognitive Development
Children plan, strategize, and make decisions as they search. They're using memory ("Where did I see an egg?"), visual scanning, and spatial awareness — all building blocks for reading and math skills.
💬 Language Development
Excited conversations and interactions help expand vocabulary, sentence structure, and expressive language — all while practicing listening and following directions.
💞 Social & Emotional Growth
They’re learning how to take turns, celebrate with peers, regulate emotions (even when they don’t find the “golden egg”), and feel a sense of joy, confidence, and community.
🎓 Every moment of joy is a moment of growth — and that’s the power of developmentally appropriate learning at CARD Head Start. 💛
