Plastic Egg Process Painting

A fun way to make use of all the extra plastic eggs hanging around at Easter time!

Plastic egg process painting.

What you need:
- plastic Easter eggs (with holes in the bottom)

- paint (we used IKEA squirt bottle paints but anything will do!)
- A3 white paper or card (try to use good quality stuff that can withstand lots of stamping!)
- a large storage box to contain the mess (we use the IKEA SAMLA under-bed storage box)

The set up.

How it works:

Both my 1 year old and 4 year old are obsessed with these brightly coloured IKEA paints. I love introducing them to novel ways they can paint. This one was fun for all of us!

Simply squirt some paint into each egg and then watch as it starts to seep through the holes. If your eggs are breaking apart easily just add a little tape to help keep them securely together.

Filling the eggs with paint.

There are several ways you can use the eggs to paint- I let my kids explore by themselves to begin with. Big bro discovered that he could use the eggs like stampers, with two paint dots appearing each time.

Stamping paint with the eggs.

Of course baby sister copied this technique too.

Baby sis testing out the stamping technique.

Then we moved onto exploring some splatter art by simply shaking the eggs rapidly. This got a little messy but was good fun!

Shaking the eggs over the paper for a splatter effect.

Other ways to use the eggs to paint could be to roll them or drag across the paint splatters. You could also mix in a little water with your paints so that the paint poured through the holes more easily. That could make some cool drip art! Big bro also enjoyed trying to make rainbow splatters by stamping and dripping the colours on top of each other.

Mixing colours.

This was a great way to mix up our painting session and of course anything plastic egg related always seems to be popular with my two littles! I plan to use our process art to cut out little Easter cards for my son to give to his nearest and dearest.