This is a great Easter activity (sorry for the late post about it), but it could be fun really anytime you are ready for a fun art project.
Materials:
Rechenka's Eggs by Patricia Polocco (optional)
eggs (as many as you want)
small knife or other sharp implement
decorating supplies (such as stickers, markers, paints, glitter glue, etc...)
string or pipe cleaner
Directions:
Read Rachenka's Eggs by Patricia Polocco to start out.
Take an egg and hold it firmly between your fingers. Use a sharp knife to puncture a tiny hole in the top of the egg. Turn the egg over and make a small hole in the bottom. Blow the contents of the egg into a bowl and you can cook these up like scrambled eggs or use them for a recipe. Repeat with as many eggs as you want.
When you've blow all the egg out of the shells take the eggs to the sink and rinse them out thoroughly. Leave them on a paper towel to dry/drain.
Have your little one carefully decorate the eggs any way he/she wants. My little girl liked painting her eggs the best. But she also had fun with stickers and makers and glitter glue. With the eggs that are decorated with markers and glitter you'll need to hang them up to dry. So poke a piece of pipe cleaner into the egg's hole and hang them up. You can also do this with string.
That's it! SOOOOO fun.
Variations: you can glue google eyes onto your egg and then decorate a face with markers. You can add strings or ribbons to make hair and call it an "egg baby."
