Craft Library: Shelly Eggs



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	This weeks Craft of the Week features a fun Easter craft for all kids in kindergarten and up. Shelly Eggs is also an good opportunity for younger children to develop their fine motor skills and become more facile with spatial relationships. Before starting this craft make an egg pattern or template from cardboard. The egg pattern can be large or small depending on the desired size. With a pencil draw an egg shape onto the white cardboard. This pattern will be used by all the kids for their Shelly Eggs. They will use the pattern or template to draw or trace the egg shape onto their piece of cardboard and then cut it out. You may want to make more than on egg pattern if you are doing this craft with a group of children. Cover working surfaces with plenty of old newspapers as this craft can get messy : )> What you need: Egg shells - these can be saved from home and must be washed and dry. Easter Egg dye White craft glue Cardboard Newspapers What you do: After making the egg pattern trace the pattern onto each child's piece of cardboard. Cut out the egg from the cardboard. Take the clean and dry eggshells and break into small but not tiny pieces. Following the Easter egg dye package instructions color the shell pieces. Allow the pieces to dry thoroughly. Designs are created by the child gluing ( using the white craft glue) the different color and shaped shell pieces right onto their cardboard egg. This is a great time to encourage the kids to make patterns and to realize color relationships, like complement colors etc... After covering the entire cardboard egg with the shell pieces allow to dry thoroughly by laying on a flat surface. Overnight drying gives the best chance for the project to be completely dried. Shake after drying to allow unattached egg pieces to fall off. These beautiful eggs can be hung as decorations or used as the front of a beautiful Easter card. Wooden Spoons Bunny Pin This week's Craft of the Week is brought to us by the popular craft expert and author Kathy Ross. She has written numerous craft books for every holiday and event. This week's craft Wooden Spoons Bunny Pin is from her book Crafts for Spring. This bunny pin would make a nice gift for tour mom or a friend. Maybe you should make more than one. Easter Bread also see Recipe Library: Baking This is a traditional baked good that is found on many Italian families Easter dinner table. You can find the anise seed oil in your grocer's herb and extract section. The candied fruit makes a beautiful looking bread along with adding a great taste. Easter Pins This craft to us by Paulette an active member of our Families First community. This simple yet beautiful Easter pin can be made by children as young as five with some help from an adult. What a terrific idea Pauletter, thanks again!		Crafts for Easter Crafts for St. Patricks Day Meet the Author - Kathy Ross FREE Easter Ideas Easter Books FREE St. Patrick's Ideas FREE Spring Ideas more gardening books FREE Flower Crafts FREE Garden Ideas Soapmaking For Fun & Profit Making Candles more Soapmaking books more candlemaking books more candles FREE soapmaking recipes FREE candlemaking recipes

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