Glitter Liquid Watercolor Dyed Eggs

We love dyeing eggs!  We are joining in on Tinkerlab's Creative Challenge: Eggs.  Our idea is dyeing eggs with Glitter Liquid Watercolors.  We received a fabulous set of these beauties from Discount School Supply. This has got be one of my top favorite products from them. You can check out their website here, if you want to purchase some. Keep reading to find out how we created these Gorgeous dyed eggs!

To create Glitter Liquid Watercolor Dyed Eggs you'll need:

Hardboiled White Eggs

Glitter Liquid Watercolors from Discount School Supply

Eye or Medicine Droppers

muffin tin

Bowls

Coffee filters or paper towels

Newspaper

rack to set eggs on

First, grab some Glitter Liquid Watercolors from Discountschoolsupply.com and put some in containers or a muffin tin. A muffin is a great way to divide up the colors.

Place a couple of coffee filters inside a bowl or some paper towels to soak up the excess watercolors.  Then place the egg or eggs on top of the coffee filter and start dripping glitter watercolors over the eggs. This is truly an engaging process to watch the colors flow over the egg and mix together.

Drip as much color as you want and then place the eggs on a baking rack with paper towels underneath to dry. I love the sparkle of the eggs with the Glitter Liquid Watercolors.  Kids of all ages could easily do this process.

Have FUN!

Check out more cool egg ideas at Tinkerlab.com

Painted Easter Sugar Cookies

We've been making Easter Cookies this week. We made my Amazing Marvelous Marbled Easter Egg Cookies and now we made these Painted Easter Cookies. The process of making sugar cookies is fun with mixing the dough, rolling out, and cutting the cookies so this is always a hit with kids.  Just add in "painting the cookies" as a last step and you have a winner on your hands. We made painted sugar cookies for Christmas here too.

Materials Needed:

Rolled and cut out sugar cookies on a cookie sheet (Uncooked)

Recipe here for Sugar Cookies
Evaporated Milk (from a can)

Food Coloring

Toothpicks

ice cube tray or small containers

paint brushes that have only been used for food

To make these lovely painted cookies, first make the sugar cookies and have the uncooked cookies placed on a cookie sheet. Prepare the cookie paint by filling an ice cube tray with evaporated milk. Then, add a few drops of food coloring per each ice cube section.  Mix up the food coloring with the evaporated milk with a toothpick. Now, grab your paint brushes and you are ready to paint the cookies.

After the cookies are painted, you can cook them according to the sugar cookie recipe that you choose to follow.  They look gorgeous uncooked!

And they stay beautiful after they have been baked too.  The nice thing about this process is that once the cookies are cooled they are ready to eat.  There is no extra step to make frosting and wait for the cookies to cool!

Happy Cookie Making and Happy Easter!

Metallic Painted Easter Eggs

We made a mixture of commercially dyed and metallic painted Easter eggs and they turned out BEAUTIFUL! I bought the 24 Karat Easter Egg Coloring Kit which is not rated very well by Amazon.com, but we painted our eggs multicolored and we had better results than our single color metallic eggs. We even made paintings on paper with our left over paint which you can see at the end of the post.

C happily painting her eggs. She had so much fun!

She enjoyed the commercial dyes PAAS kit too.

We even painted with the metallic colors over the Commercially dyed eggs which gave a nice background color to some of the eggs.

Lastly, we used the leftover Metallic colors to make some wonderful paintings! Mom's painting below.

C's painting.

What Egg Kits have you and your kids enjoyed?

Rainbow Crayon Resist

Crayon Resist activities are always fun and when you add rainbows to the mix that even adds more enjoyment for kids. This is always a magical activity for kids,  and why not think about pairing it up with St. Patrick's Day or Spring Weather activities?

Materials Needed:

Crayons (white always works best!)

Watercolors in rainbow colors

Paint brushes

White paper

First,  draw with crayons with firm pressure onto white paper.  White crayons always look coolest! Then paint with rainbow watercolors over the crayon drawings. SO simple an Magical every time!

I always enjoy this activity and my daughter does too! 

We made Crayon Resist Easter Eggs last year!

Super Easy Paper Baskets

What would you put in these cute little baskets? We made these paper baskets with some construction paper, liquid starch, and pipe cleaners. They could be May Baskets, Mother's Day, Teacher gifts or for Easter.

For these baskets you'll need:

Square paper of any size (we used 6"x6" and 9"x9")

Liquid Starch

Paint Brushes

Tin Cans

Rubber bands or Elastics 

Pipe Cleaners

Lay the square paper on some newspaper and brush the liquid starch over the paper.  Turn the paper over and do the other side too. 

Now put the wet starchy paper over a can.  I used a large stewed tomato can, but you could use some thing like a coffee can too. Place a rubber band around the paper like this.  Let the starch dry.

Then when the basket is dry, you can punch holes on the sides and twist pipe cleaners together to form the handle. Pretty simple!

Then place whatever you want in your basket.  Maybe natural items, trinkets, or coffee filter flowers like we did below.  To find out how we made the coffee filter flowers click here.

Our Coffee FIlter Flowers:

What kind of baskets have you made?

How to Draw a Bunny by C

I Love Bunnies.  It was my favorite animal to draw as a child. Whenever I had to draw something that was my choice it was a bunny about nine times out of ten.  My daughter "C" has been drawing bunnies since the Easter season is upon us or maybe she is following in my foot steps? She wanted to teach me how to draw a bunny and I told her I could post it on The Chocolate Muffin Tree for all the world to see.  Here is the bunny that she showed me how to draw.

Take it away C:

C: For this drawing, all you need is paper, a pen, and pink marker.  First you draw an oval like this.

C: Then, you draw a circle for the head and add the ears.

C:  Now draw the eyes, nose, mouth, and whiskers.  Then color the nose and ears pink.

C:  Last,  add some lines for fur and a tail.  Make a line around the bunny to create a cave.  Draw eggs and carrots under the bunny.  Now you are done.

Me: Here is my bunny drawing after the instructions from my daughter.  What do you think?  I enjoyed having my daughter teach me to draw a bunny.  She was extremely proud!

Do you let your children teach you how to make things?

Hope you have a wonderful holiday with your family! Take care.

Happy Easter!

Crayon Shaving Decorated Easter Eggs

I think this is our last egg decorating idea for the year.  We created Bleeding Tissue Decorated Easter Eggs and Hot Easter Eggs Decorated With Crayon too.  These Crayon Shaving Decorated Easter Eggs didn't turn out exactly how I expected,  but they still had pretty results and it was an enjoyable process.

Materials Needed:

old grater

broken crayons

hard boiled eggs that are still warm

paper towels

First, we used an old grater to grate some old crayons. This process of grating crayons was a big hit as it was for grating soap for Bath Crayons.

Then after hard boiling the eggs we let them cool a bit. We placed the eggs on a paper towel/napkin and sprinkled them with the crayon shavings

We let the crayon shavings melt which was kind of cool to observe.

Then we wrapped the egg in the paper towel to kind of get the crayon shavings to spread around the egg.  You can experiment with whatever method you like.

After wrapping and kind of rolling around the egg,  we unwrapped the eggs to find these swirly and colorful results.  The crayon was pretty thick on the eggs so I wasn't sure about eating these eggs.  It was a fun process though. What do you think?

What is your favorite way to decorate Easter Eggs?

***Need more inspiration fro some Egg Activities?  Be sure to check out: 60 Egg Activities for Kids from Tinkerlab.

Crayon Resist Easter Eggs

We did this so simple egg decoration.  The process of crayon resist is always fun and adds a little magic into any art project involving watercolor paint.

For this project you'll need:

white paper

an egg shape pattern

white crayons/or other colors

watercolor paints/paint brushes

water

First, either have an egg shape already cut out or have a child trace an egg pattern onto white paper.

Then begin decorating/ designing your egg with white crayon by pressing hard.  The white crayon can only be seen if you look at the paper to the side, but it has the coolest effect.   You can use any color of crayon, but the white is the most magical.  As an art teacher,  I have had great results with Neon crayons too.  They really glow with dark paint.

After designing, take watercolor paint and brush over the crayon and the crayon should resist the paint. Make sure the paint is watery or the paint will cover the crayon. Never use washable crayons with this process because the crayon designs will disappear.

Here are our finished crayon resist eggs! Always beautiful!

Happy Easter!

***If you want more inspiration for egg shaped activities be sure to check out: 50+ Egg Shaped Crafts from Putti Prapancha.

Shaving Cream Marbled Easter Egg Cards

We created some Easter Egg greeting cards this past week. We used our shaving cream marbled papers left over from when we made Shaving Cream Marbled Hearts and Shaving Cream Marbled Rainbows. If you haven't seen our posts on shaving cream marbling, be sure to check out the great tutorials on it in each post here and here.

To get started, we first gathered our wonderful supply of shaving cream marbled papers.  Then we cut out a bunch of Easter Eggs that could fit on a greeting card.  Some small, medium, and large sizes.  For younger children you may want to have the eggs already cut out.

Then you can either buy pre-made blank greeting cards or just fold a piece of paper in half to create a card size of your choice.  We used Glue Sticks to adhere the marble paper eggs to our cards.  Glue sticks worked really well for this process.

We tried various different egg arrangements.  C enjoyed this process of collaging the paper eggs together.

Ta-da! Here are some of our finished cards! Ready to send out or give to friends and family for Easter!

Happy Easter!