Creative Challenge: Plastic Easter Egg Chicks and Bunnies

When I read about  the Creative Challenge from Tinkerlab I knew it was for us and something we would want to join in.  Emily and Juliette love to work on projects and I loved the idea that it was open ended and up to them to figure out what to do, which fosters their creativity and problem solving skills

This month’s challenge is EGGS, so we could do anything we want with any type of egg.

I explained to the girls that we had to come up with a project that has to do with eggs.  We conveniently decided to decorate our house for Easter which meant we had a huge bag of Plastic Easter Eggs (I’m talking like easily 75-100 eggs) just sitting waiting to be used in some fun and creative way.

Emily suggested the idea of turning a plastic yellow egg into a chick, she thought our bin of pipe cleaners would be perfect for his feet and Juliette totally agreed and added that we needed to make a bunny too.  They picked out yellow eggs for the chicks and pink eggs for the bunnies. Then I helped them gather whichever art supplies they thought they needed to create their projects.

Our supplies included plastic eggs, pipe cleaners, beads, craft foam, sharpie markers,feathers, construction paper, pom poms, wiggly eyes and our hot Glue Gun .

The girls noticed that there were holes in the top and bottom of each part of the egg which was perfect for adding the feet. 

After they added the feet they figured out worked on adding all the other details.  Daddy got in the fun to and decided to create a party egg :)      Emily’s Princess Chick!

 

Check out our cute Handprint Bunny Craft and Hatching Chick Craft for some more Bunny and Chick Fun!!

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stART ~ The Easter Chick

 

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures somewhere in your post by either adding my button or a text link, so that others can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.  Be sure to stop by and visit the different links…every week there are so many different and fun book and craft ideas!

Check out the  stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects.  All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.

This week we read The Easter Chick , by Geraldine Elschner.  This is a cute story about a little chick that wants to be born on Easter Sunday.  All the animals in the barnyard are not really sure when that is since it always falls on a different date each year.  The old owl however, helps the mother hen and her chick to know when Easter Sunday is.  The story is well written and the illustrations are beautiful.

We made some really cute Easter Chicks hatching from their eggs to go along with this book!

Emily and Juliette decorated a yellow oval piece of construction paper with yellow markers, feathers and tissue paper.  Then they added a white half shell and yellow wings.  Then they glued on two wiggly eyes and a orange beak.  Although I had everything prepared in advance they were able to put their chicks together however they liked.

I love seeing how each one comes out looking different even though they had all of the same supplies to work with :0)

Emily’s chick

(the black is where the shell is cracking some more)

Juliette’s Chick

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