Easter Science Holiday Camp activities: Egg Design (2025 Update)
Educational and Fun Activities
Written by Gregg Payne
29 April 2024
đź•“ 10 min
Crack into Creativity with the Easter Egg Design Challenge!
This Easter, the Science of Sound Holiday Camps are putting a fun twist on tradition with the Egg Design Challenge—an imaginative and educational activity where children aged 5–12 explore engineering, art, and scientific thinking while creating and protecting their own unique eggs.
Kids will combine colourful decoration, creative construction, and material testing to transform their plain eggs into resilient masterpieces. From sparkly designs to anti-crack structures, each creation becomes a fun experiment in design, balance, and protective engineering.
At Science of Sound, we believe learning should be hands-on and joyful, especially during the holidays. This activity offers the perfect balance between STEM discovery and creative freedom, making it a highlight of our Easter holiday camp experience.
Let’s crack open the science, creativity, and problem-solving behind this egg-citing Easter challenge!
1. What is the Egg Design Challenge?
The Egg Design Challenge is an Easter-inspired activity where children combine creativity, critical thinking, and engineering to design, decorate, and protect their eggs from breaking. But this isn’t just an art project—it’s also a hands-on introduction to problem-solving, materials testing, and design thinking.
✅ Egg Decoration – Kids use paints, markers, stickers, and glitter to create bold, beautiful egg designs that reflect their personal flair.
✅ Protective Design – Children learn how to cushion their eggs using materials like foam, cotton, or even balloons, experimenting with what works best to absorb impact.
✅ Creative Engineering – Whether they build egg parachutes, padded boxes, or shock-absorbing nests, kids explore how to keep their eggs safe during impact tests.
📍 The Twist: It’s not just about style—these eggs must survive a drop test! Children learn how design choices affect structural integrity, and they’ll get the chance to test and improve their designs.
The Egg Design Challenge is all about combining aesthetics with function, giving children a platform to explore both science and imagination in one playful package.
2. Science Meets Art: Designing with Purpose
In the Egg Design Challenge, children discover that art isn’t just about how things look—it’s also about how things function. Through hands-on creation, they explore the fascinating connection between scientific principles and artistic choices, applying real-world STEM thinking to every design decision.
✅ Material Science – Kids test different materials—like cotton, foam, cardboard, and balloons—to determine which absorbs shock or cushions impact best.
✅ Structural Integrity – Children learn how to build protective barriers or enclosures, similar to how engineers reinforce buildings to withstand force or pressure.
✅ Patterns and Symmetry – While decorating their eggs, children are introduced to symmetry, balance, and pattern design, developing both artistic awareness and spatial reasoning.
đź“Ť Real-World Insight: Kids gain an understanding of how design affects performance, laying the groundwork for future problem-solving in engineering, design, and architecture.
This section blends art, physics, and engineering, encouraging children to think critically about why they choose certain materials or shapes, not just what looks nice. It’s science with flair—and eggs with function!
3. Testing the Designs: The Egg Drop Challenge
Now comes the moment of truth—the Egg Drop Challenge! Once their decorated eggs are complete and protected, kids will put their designs to the test by dropping them from a set height. Will the egg survive, or will it crack? Either way, it’s a lesson in real-world science and resilience.
✅ Build the Protective Structure – Using their chosen materials, children wrap, pad, and cushion their eggs to prepare them for impact.
✅ Perform the Drop Test – With bated breath, we drop each egg from a safe height and watch how well the design holds up under pressure.
✅ Inspect and Improve – If the egg breaks, no problem! Kids will reflect on their designs, make tweaks, and try again—learning through failure and iteration.
đź“Ť Scientific Concepts Explored:
- Impact force
- Energy absorption and redirection
- Design adaptation and testing cycles
This challenge turns every participant into an inventor and engineer, learning how to problem-solve, adapt, and test their ideas in a playful, hands-on environment.
4. Exploring Creativity with Egg Decoration
While the engineering elements are important, the Egg Design Challenge also leaves plenty of room for imagination and creative freedom. Children will use a wide variety of materials to turn their eggs into vibrant, expressive masterpieces—because science and art go hand in hand!
✅ Use of Colour and Pattern – Kids will experiment with bold colour choices, repeating patterns, and themed decorations, from spring florals to superhero eggs.
✅ Adding Texture and Flair – Materials like glitter, stickers, felt, googly eyes, or foam cut-outs bring each egg to life with a unique personality and tactile richness.
✅ Telling a Story – Whether it’s a bunny superhero, a disco egg, or a space explorer, children are encouraged to tell a story through their egg’s design and character.
📍 Creative Confidence Boost: Beyond aesthetics, this session helps build self-expression, visual storytelling, and artistic identity—all essential to holistic learning.
The blend of function and flair helps children understand that science isn’t just technical—it can be fun, expressive, and beautiful too!
5. Educational Benefits of the Egg Design Challenge
The Egg Design Challenge is not only fun—it’s educational gold. It offers a hands-on introduction to key STEM and design skills, all while giving children the freedom to be creative, curious, and experimental.
✅ Problem-Solving Skills – Children must think critically about how to protect their egg, testing and refining their designs in real-time.
✅ Engineering Concepts – By working with materials and structures, kids explore impact resistance, force absorption, and functional design.
✅ Artistic Expression – Through decorating and storytelling, children gain confidence in their creative abilities and visual communication.
✅ Growth Mindset – Whether the egg survives or cracks, the activity promotes resilience, iteration, and learning through failure.
📍 Holistic Learning: It’s a playful mix of physics, design thinking, material science, and imagination—perfect for developing well-rounded, confident learners.
The Egg Design Challenge proves that some of the best learning happens when kids are laughing, exploring, and problem-solving all at once.
For more on how STEM activities benefit children, check out our post 10 Ways STEM Activities Can Help Your Child’s Academic and Personal Development.
Final Thoughts: A Cracking Good STEM Adventure!
The Egg Design Challenge is one of our most exciting and well-rounded Easter activities at the Science of Sound Holiday Camps. It brings together science, creativity, and hands-on learning in a way that feels more like play than schoolwork—yet the learning outcomes are incredibly impactful.
From designing colourful eggs to protecting them from dramatic drops, children build engineering confidence, artistic expression, and critical thinking all in one joyful session. Whether their egg survives intact or not, every child walks away with new insights, new skills, and a huge sense of pride.
Want to keep the momentum going? Explore our full lineup of STEM workshops, after-school clubs, and holiday camps—all designed to help kids learn through action and creativity.
Let’s make this Easter one to remember—with eggs that are engineered, decorated, and dropped with purpose!
