Bleeding tissue paper and a water squirt bottle make for the best process art combination!
What you need:
- watercolor paper (or white card would also work)
- bleeding tissue paper
- water squirt bottle
- pencil
- scissors
- it can get messy so a mat or a tray is a good idea (we used our trusty Messmatz)
- bleeding tissue paper
- water squirt bottle
- pencil
- scissors
- it can get messy so a mat or a tray is a good idea (we used our trusty Messmatz)
How it works:
Draw and cut out a nice big Easter egg on an A4 piece of watercolor paper. Then tear up lots of nice bright colors of bleeding tissue paper and arrange in bowls or a tray. I have also tried something similar with non-bleeding tissue paper and it will work but the colors will be much more faded. As I was doing this with my 2 year old I made the pieces pretty large.
Start by asking your toddler to squirt some water onto their white egg. Be careful that they don't create a flood, just a nice sprinkling over the entire egg surface. Squirting the water is a great workout for little hands and of course lots of fun too!
Next up is covering the egg with the pieces of bleeding tissue paper. As the egg is wet they will stick nicely in place.
You can take this opportunity to practice color vocabulary with your toddler. My little one loved getting to choose her own colors and was careful to use every single one available to her.
The constant picking up and placing down of the tissue paper pieces was a fabulous workout for her fine motor skills. She was so delicate!
Once the egg is covered, it's time to add some more water. Again, be careful to not add too much or else the paper gets too wet and the colors all run into each other and create that oh too common toddler shade of brown!
Then simply let the masterpiece dry for a good few hours (I actually left ours overnight just to be sure) and peeled off the tissue paper.
It left such a cool speckled, and even cracked, texture in some places. And baby sis had done a great job of making it a bright and beautiful Easter egg!
This can work well for older kids too. They can draw and cut out their own eggs, rip the paper themselves and even try to create patterns with the colors.
Start by asking your toddler to squirt some water onto their white egg. Be careful that they don't create a flood, just a nice sprinkling over the entire egg surface. Squirting the water is a great workout for little hands and of course lots of fun too!
Next up is covering the egg with the pieces of bleeding tissue paper. As the egg is wet they will stick nicely in place.
You can take this opportunity to practice color vocabulary with your toddler. My little one loved getting to choose her own colors and was careful to use every single one available to her.
The constant picking up and placing down of the tissue paper pieces was a fabulous workout for her fine motor skills. She was so delicate!
Once the egg is covered, it's time to add some more water. Again, be careful to not add too much or else the paper gets too wet and the colors all run into each other and create that oh too common toddler shade of brown!
Then simply let the masterpiece dry for a good few hours (I actually left ours overnight just to be sure) and peeled off the tissue paper.
It left such a cool speckled, and even cracked, texture in some places. And baby sis had done a great job of making it a bright and beautiful Easter egg!
This can work well for older kids too. They can draw and cut out their own eggs, rip the paper themselves and even try to create patterns with the colors.
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