Easter Craft – Chickies in Egg Shells

This is a really great craft for little ones to do themselves. It is quite inexpensive (if google eyes are out of your budget, you could just use little peices of paper; dump the left over of your 3-hole punch @ work in to a small bag once in a while, and draw the eyes on with a pen or marker) and if you live in a small town like us, where there isn’t a specialty craft store, no problem, everything on the list can be bought at the grocery store/pharmacy.

What you’ll need:

• egg shells – careful when you crack them!
• orange paper or ‘foam’thanks again Nonnie Keri, we used ‘foam’
• Google eyes (or read above for another option)
• Yellow cotton swabs (if you can’t find these, dilute some yellow food colouring in water, spill some on a shallow plate, roll your regualr cotton swabs around then leave them out to dry, the less you squish them the better and we did this last year with good results)
• white glue

That’s it! Check out our photos below for assembly ideas. Emeraude loved this one as she is a huge fan of dripping white glue which really can’t be avoided in this project (if you aren’t such a fan, a good idea is to keep a cheap plastic tablecloth for laying down under your child’s chair when doing crafts. We have one we keep with our ‘play-doh’ kit to keep play-doh clean up simple and keep it out of the carpet) so an apron and tying any long hair back is advisable. Emeraude had alot of fun varying the sizes of their eyes & beaks and finding shells to match up so that the chick looked like he was breaking out of his egg or wearing a hat as Emeraude described it.

Tags: child, craft, daughter, decorations, Easter, Easter craft, egg shells, eggs, family, fine motor skills, fun, glue, homeschool, paste
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