Bubble Wrap Easter Eggs
The 2- 3 1/2 year olds really enjoyed making these Easter eggs, but the older age group would enjoy it just as much. There is a bit of preparation for the teacher before the lesson, but the end result is well worth the time and effort.
Preparation: Ahead of time, teacher or mom needs to cut out a coloured cardboard oval shaped frame and staple a piece of bubble wrap to the frame. (Egg shape templates are available in the Easter theme book)
Hint: It was a lot easier to cut a piece of bubble wrap larger than the egg frame, staple the bubble wrap to the frame in several places and then cut off the excess bubble wrap.
Painting: The children painted the bubble wrap (and some frames too!) Adding a squirt of dishwashing liquid helps the paint to adhere to the plastic and makes clean up easier.
Some children only wanted to pop the ‘bubbles’ but with some encouragement and a promise of a spare piece to pop once the egg was painted, all the children painted an egg for the display.
Group display
Some of the eggs were dispayed in baskets.When the eggs are displayed on a window with the light behind them, they look translucent.
Hanging the eggs as a mobile will also be effective.
Making the basket
Group activity: To make the basket, I set out some tyre track painting. We used small cars with brown paint and the children dipped the car tyres into the paint, rolled the cars over several large pieces of paper and created the ‘basket weave’ effect for the basket.
Once dry, I cut out several baskets and displayed the eggs in the baskets.
For the final display we added some of the Easter chicks around the basket.
Happy Easter.
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