Open Ended Art: Easter Egg Printing

Open Ended Art: Easter Egg Printing

Plastic eggs and open-ended art...sounds like a fun opportunity for a preschooler to explore. Preschoolers love using non-art materials to explore, it allows them to think outside of the box and understand that art can be made from so many different things. This open-ended Easter egg printing activity is an excellent way to use those plastic eggs with paint for a chance to explore. 

Materials

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For this project you will need the following supplies:

• Tempera Paint of your choice
• Plastic Easter Eggs
• Trays for paint (or paper plates)
• ​ Paper

To prepare:
​Squirt a different color of paint into each of your trays. We used paper food containers because they turned out to be the easiest size for stamping.

Next, you will want to pull apart your plastic eggs, and place 1/2 in the tray for dipping. Use the egg/or a paint brush to spread the paint out in the tray to ready it for printing.

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Now the kids are ready to take over! They can stamp, twist, and drag,
to make their own unique pieces of art. To extend this activity you can be intentional about the color choices you choose for both the paint and your eggs so you can have preschoolers work on matching the egg to the paint. 

Process art activities such as this one are important in helping preschoolers become confident in their own abilities as there are no expected outcomes!

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