Inside: Toddlers and preschoolers love this cardboard Easter egg craft. Using tinted glue and tissue paper circles make these cardboard eggs colorful and festive!
Colorful Cardboard Easter Egg Craft
This is also a great color mixing activity! When the green and blue paints were mixed, for example, green showed up. Grab some cardboard and a few other pieces and invite your toddlers and preschoolers to get creative. Let me show you how! Especially cardboard! If you’ve been following Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds for awhile, you might recall some of these favorites:
Pom Pom Valentine Hearts Cardboard Shamrocks Cardboard Christmas Trees Colorful Gingerbread Men Cardboard Rainbow Craft
I also like using cardboard because it’s so durable. Paper can curl up if too much paint or glue is applied, but cardboard remains flat. And that’s good, because some of my young students love to add as much as they can to their artwork and the cardboard holds up no matter what! Note: I get a lot of questions about the white round containers shown in the picture below. They are recycled wet dog food containers that I gathered many years ago. We passed around the different colors of tinted glue so that each egg had at least two colors. CLICK HERE for more color mixing activities. And that’s it! A cardboard Easter egg craft for toddlers and preschoolers. The benefit of adding paint to the glue is that it eliminates two steps (first painting, then gluing). Pressing the small pieces on to the painted cardboard is also a nice fine motor activity. I am always looking for ways to strengthen those hands! I love how colorful they turned out. If you’d like to hang these, you can add a loop with yarn or string to the top with some hot glue. Looking back, I wish I had done this so we could have hung them in our classroom tree. Here is my Privacy Policy
