Easter Egg Bird Decoration Craft

• eggs
• newsprint
• egg dye
• paper towels
• birthday candles or crayons
• pipe cleaners

• fishing line
• black acrylic or tempera paint
• brushes
• blue tissue
• glue

 

1. Blow the Egg: Wash and dry the raw egg. Cover your table with newsprint and set out bowls, pushpins, and paper towels. Shake the egg to break up the yolk. Next, the kids can pierce the top and bottom with a pushpin, making the hole on the wider end a bit larger. Position the egg over the bowl and blow through the small hole, allowing the inside of the egg to seep into the bowl. Set the empty egg, with the large hole down, in an egg carton to dry. Be sure children wash her hands after handling.
   
2. Decorate the Egg: Let the kids paint half of the egg, stand it atop a bottle cap to dry (use a hair dryer to speed things up), then paint the other half. Centering the face on either hole, paint on features with contrasting colors. Begin with a blue painted egg, then paint on black eyes. Glue on blue tissue paper wings and a billowy tail. Finally, glue on a paper beak.
   
3. Take Flight: Tape a long length of fishing line to the end of an unfolded paper clip. Starting at the small hole, thread the line through the decorated egg and out the large hole. To keep your flying critter upright, tape the fishing line just above the hole in the critter's back. Hang it from the ceiling or an egg tree.