Tissue Paper Easter Egg

With a little under three weeks until Easter, I'll be devoting some of the posts in the next few weeks to Easter projects. I have always loved decorating Easter eggs, especially in new and interesting ways. This project is fun to do with toddlers on up - grade schoolers will even add their own twist and make pretty eggs this way

Materials:

eggs

tissue paper cut into small piece

glue

paint brushes or q-tips

jar lids

Boil the eggs first. Pour a little glue into the jar lids, and add a few drops of water to thin the glue. Kids should paint their eggs with glue using the brush or q-tip, and then place tissue paper on the egg. Preschoolers and older kids should smooth the tissue paper on the egg; toddlers will most likely just leave it sticking on in clumps - that's fine too! Show your little ones how to put more glue and tissue paper on the white spots. These eggs are really colorful and pretty when done!

Alternately, kids can dip the tissue paper into the glue and smooth onto the eggs. Also, older children can cut shapes and designs out of the tissue paper to glue on. Older children could also blow the eggs out first for more lasting designs.