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

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!

Egg Carton Paintings

We are up again for TinkerLab's Challenge.  This time the challenge was to create something with egg cartons.  We were inspired by this, this, and this to paint on egg cartons! C really enjoyed painting on egg cartons and it is a great alternative to painting on plain paper.  I love how these paintings turned out.

Materials Needed:

tempera paint or acrylic paint

paint brushes

egg carton(s) that are paper/cardboard kind

The materials are so simple and everyone should have the ability to create these wonderful paintings.  I did cut 2 egg cartons apart so that my daughter could just paint on the inside of the egg sections.  You could paint to on the top of the egg carton and inside too.  In advance I glued the 2 inside sections to a piece of cardboard so that they would be more stable.

Then we just began painting.  I used a styrofoam egg carton to use as a paint tray while painting the cardboard egg cartons.

I was astonished at how much C enjoyed painting the egg cartons.  We painted the cartons solid first and then added black polka dots.

Beautiful!

C loved this so much she asked to paint on egg cartons again.  It was a good thing that I had quite  collection saved of egg cartons.  On this painting my daughter explored mixing colors and using white to create "tints" or lighter versions of each color. Tints are created by adding white to a color.

Here are both paintings which are proudly being displayed in my daughter's bedroom right now.

Be sure to check out all the other FABULOUS egg carton ideas at 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!

10 Different Egg Activities and Experiments from Tinkerlab and The Chocolate Muffin Tree

Last week Tinkerlab and I hosted a week of Egg Experiments and Activities called Egg Week.  For your convenience I have put all 10 of our ideas in one post.  All the activities use "Real" Eggs so be prepared to do some egg shopping soon. We had a lot of enjoyment with these activities and until now I never realized there were so many things you could do with eggs!  "CLICK" the caption below the photo to bring you to the post.

1. Bleeding Tissue Easter Eggs

2. Walking On Raw Eggs

3. Transparent and Bouncy Egg Experiment

4. Make Your Own Egg Tempera Paint

5. Hot Eggs Decorated With Crayons

6. Three Easy Tricks For Blown Out Eggs

7. An Experiment With Egg and Soda

8. Egg Geodes

9. Naturally Decorated Marbled Eggs

10. Vegetable-Dyed Easter Eggs

What ideas will you try?

Please share any activities you do with eggs.

An Experiment With An Egg and Soda

This has been a fun filled Egg Week with TinkerLab.  Hope you've enjoyed all our experiments and activities with eggs.  Be sure to check out all 10 of our ideas from the week if you haven't. We both have ONE MORE IDEA to share! This time we did an Experiment with eggs and different beverages.

For this experiment you'll need:

a white egg

a dark colored soda

a glass

an old toothbrush

***if desired you can choose other beverages to try 

This experiment is so easy peasy.  All you need to do is put a white egg in each glass that you have and pour the beverage  in to cover the egg. 

In our glasses we chose to use apple juice and a dark colored cola.  I asked C what she thought would happen to the eggs.  She thought maybe they would change colors.  We mostly drink apple juice in our household so C wasn't even sure if she wanted anything to do with the cola.

After a couple hours the cola made the white egg light brown.....that fast!

The apple juice made the white egg a light brown too.

A day later the eggs were quite dark so I explained to C how the eggs got stained.  I asked her, "What would happen to your teeth after drinking apple juice if you never brushed your teeth?" My daughter concluded that her teeth would get brown like the eggs.  So I had C take an old toothbrush to see if she could get the eggs clean.

The apple juice came off in brown little chunks.  The dark colored soda had to be really scrubbed. Both were not easy to clean.

Here is the cola submerged egg half cleaned. It makes you really think how important it is to brush your teeth after seeing this.  How would the eggs look after more time? Probably worse.

This experiment is a good lesson in dental health.  I know I will be referring back to this experiment from time to time to remind C about the importance of brushing your teeth.

On You Tube there is an experiment with a dark colored soda in which they left the egg for one year...365 days. Take a look at the video here and you may think twice about drinking colas or at least it will encourage you to brush your teeth.  The shell of an egg contains calcium, sodium, and phosphorus....and after 365 days the shell disintegrated.

What other beverages/liquids would you try this experiment with?(please share your results)

***Be sure to hop on over to TinkerLab to find out what cool experiment Rachelle has in store for you today.

Let us know how you enjoyed Egg Week and our 10 Easter Egg Activities. Will you try any of these ideas?

Bleeding Tissue Easter Eggs

Walking on Raw Eggs

The Transparent and Bouncy Egg Experiment

Make Your Own Egg Tempera Paint

Naturally Decorated Marbled Eggs

Three Easy Tricks for Blown-Out Eggs

Egg Geodes

Hot Easter Eggs Decorated With Crayons

When you get a chance please share with us the FUN (or not so much fun) that you've had with any of these Egg Activities.