Paper Strip Easter Egg

We made these super simple but very cute Easter Eggs (idea from Pinterest)!

 We used glue, one piece of paper and one piece of card stock.  I cut an egg shape out of the card stock and drew an egg shape onto the paper.  Then I cut up some strips of Easter themed scrapbook paper.

Hailey gluing her strips of paper onto her paper.

Hunter putting his on.

Hunter’s paper all full of the strips of paper.

I added the card stock over top of the paper… this is Hunter’s completed egg.

Hailey’s completed egg.

Saint Patrick’s Day Fun

Here is a quick look back at our week and all of the fun St. Patrick’s Day activities we did, with links to the original posts.

 We made Collage Shamrocks.

Our Puffy Paint Shamrocks turned out so cute!

 Hailey had a lot of making this End of the Rainbow craft.

Hunter had fun making this Pot of Gold (and also eating the paint!).

 We made green Discovery Bottles filled with different St. Patrick’s Day items and green materials.

Hunter loves his Shamrock Suncatcher that he made.

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Puffy Paint Shamrock

Puffy Paint is so much fun!  Messy- yes, but worth the fun!

You need glue, green paint and shaving cream.  We also had a paper plate to mix everything on and a shamrock shape.  I used a cereal box to cut out the shamrock so that it would be a little sturdier.

Mix the shaving cream, glue and paint.  I have also used food coloring to color the puffy paint, but it stains the skin and takes a while to come off, so I prefer to use paint.

Mix it all together.

Let the fun begin 🙂

Yay!  Hunter loved it!!

Hailey worked very carefully on her shamrock.

Hunter painted his tummy while I was taking a picture of Hailey’s work.

Hailey’s completed shamrock.  When it dries the paint stays puffy and it so neat!

Hunter’s completed shamrock… He played with his paint so much that it lost its puffiness, which is fine because he had fun.  But if you want it to stay puffy don’t play with it too much.

See the rest of our St. Patrick’s Day activities that we have done.

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Collage Shamrock

Since Saint Patrick’s Day is only a few days away and because Hunter is learning the color green, I thought it would be fun to make a shamrock using all different green collage materials.

 First I gathered our supplies- glue, shamrock shaped paper and all the green things I could find.

Next they used the do-a-dot markers to decorate the shamrock.

 Add on some green collage materials.  Hunter loved this!  I put the glue on his shamrock and then he put the pieces on.  He kept picking them up and moving them around.  This kept his attention for quite a while.

 Hailey worked for a long time on hers too, she had to position everything just right.

Hailey’s completed shamrock.

Hunter’s completed shamrock.