Last year I posted a bunch of ideas or making your Easter Eggs. My kids never just dye theirs on Satuday before Easter like I used to. They always spend a couple weeks painting them or other wise creating them. We use blown out eggs so that we can save and enjoy them for a while.
They use many of the techniques that I did with my classes last year, but we try new things as well.
Here's one we did that I thought was pretty:
Tissue and Watercolor Mache
H wanted to do the tissue paper eggs that we did last year, but I am out of colored tissue. I did have white, though, so I had a brainstorm...
I have a product called liquid watercolors that are essentially dyes. I get it from Discount School Supply, but you could use food color diluted with a little bit of water as well. I put a little white glue in different segments of our paint palette, added a little bit of liquid watercolor and stirred it up. Just like with papier mache, it should be mostly liquid, not terribly gluey. We dipped the edge of a bit of torn tissue into the colored glue-water, let it wick up the tissue and laid it on the egg. We kept going with different colors until the egg was all (or mostly) covered with tissue and let it dry. The colors blended and the wrinkles in the tissue made neat patterns. It's a little less predictable of an outcome than with the tissue paper technique of last year, but I like it...
Materials
eggs
white (or light colored) tissue paper
liquid watercolor or food coloring
white glue
palette or small bowls
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