Dora the Explorer TV Show – Egg Hunt
Children's Television Show Easter Episode Review for Parents
Parents searching for appropriate, family-friendly Easter cartoon television shows to share with toddlers and preschoolers will find the Egg Hunt episode of Dora the Explorer to be suitable, if as simple and formulaic as all Dora cartoon episodes are.
Dora the Explorer – Season 2 Egg Hunt Episode Plot
In this Easter cartoon, children help Dora and Boots look for cascarones, or traditional Mexican hollow eggs filled with prizes. While they find the eggs, Swiper dresses up like the Easter bunny and an Easter egg to try to swipe the prize eggs. Eventually, Dora and Boots find the best cascarone – a big yellow egg.
Where to Watch Dora the Explorer Episodes
The Egg Hunt Dora holiday episode is available at Amazon as part of the Dora the Explorer: Season 2: Video on Demand service ($1.99 per episode).
Parents can also buy, rent, or check out from the library the 2004 DVD Dora the Explorer: The Egg Hunt or the 2009 re-released version.
DVD Special Features
The one Easter-themed bonus feature included is the Dora's Egg Adventure Game. Children can help Dora and Boots search in a frozen picture for cascarones and other hidden items including different animals (Spanish names and English clues are given), lollipops, and even Swiper.
Several bonus Dora cartoon episodes are included – a second spring-themed show about Mother's Day, as well as episodes about a music parade and a musical flute.
Two Linny the Guinea Pig adventures are also included.
Dora the Explorer Easter Books
Toddlers and preschoolers can relive the adventure of Egg Hunt with the book Dora's Easter Basket by Sarah Willson [Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon, 2003]. Just as in the episode, readers must find 12 eggs and watch out for Swiper.
Young children will also enjoy Dora's Rainbow Egg Hunt by Kirsten Larsen [Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon, 2006]. By reading this board book and finding different Easter eggs under each flap, children will learn their colors in Spanish.
For older children (ages 4 to 8), there is Eggs for Everyone! by Laura Driscoll [Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon, 2005]. This Ready-to-Read book is a rebus, with pictures standing in for some words to help children "read" the story. Readers must guess the intended recipient of each egg that Dora and Boots decorate.
Dora Easter Activities for Kids
- The prizes in the cascarones in Dora's egg hunt are small classic toys, such as whistles, balls, crayons, yo-yos, and toy cars. Kids can use clay, folded paper, pipe-cleaners, and other small craft supplies to make creative fun prizes to hide inside plastic or large papier-mâché Easter eggs to make their own hand-made cascarones.
- Kids can also make their own cascarones. Parents should break off just the top of an egg, pour out the inside, and wash and dry the shell. Children can dye or paint the shells, fill them with confetti, and then close up the hole by glueing a piece of colored tissue paper over it.
- When Dora finally finds the big yellow egg, she must pick it out from three other objects that resemble it – a yellow kitty, a yellow butterfly, and a yellow beetle. Give children a piece of yellow oval-shaped paper and have them decorate it like an Easter egg on one side and then use markers, glue, and other pieces of paper to transform the reverse side into an animal that might look like an Easter egg.
- Once children have made enough prize eggs, hold an Easter egg hunt with the Easter eggs. Award each participant a printable Dora's Egg Hunt Certificate from the many Dora printables available at the Nick Jr. Web site.
- Kids who like Dora coloring pages will enjoy a Dora & Boots Egg coloring page and (again from the Dora printables area on the Nick Jr. Web site) a Dora Easter card.
Because the bulk of the Dora DVD on which this Dora holiday episode appears is taken up with non-Easter-themed episodes, many families may prefer merely to rent or check the DVD out. This Dora Egg Hunt Easter cartoon is worth tracking down to share with young children, however, if only to introduce them to the interesting tradition of cascarones.
Parents interested in other Nick Jr. children's television show Easter episode reviews can check out a review of Easter with Max & Ruby and a review of Max's Chocolate Chicken (another Max & Ruby cartoon episode).
Families may also like to read reviews of other animated Easter television specials for children.
Dora the Explorer: Egg Hunt DVD Cover
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