Yesterday we started our unit on Easter by making some fun eggs......we of course talked about and will talk some more about why we celebrate Easter (and no not the Easter bunny), but Jesus dying on the cross for our sins. I had one child that was concerned that we were going to be nailed to the cross as well, but I assured her that would not happen.
We started off by dying corn syrup with food coloring.....this will be the "paint." I had an egg shape for each of the children to paint on. You can use a spoon or a paint brush to decorate the egg. When the children used a spoon, they realized they could drip it and also smooth it out.....towards the end they were all using the spoon to smooth out the corn syrup to cover their entire egg.
Maddox even got into doing this.....when he is home with us, he thinks he needs to do art as well. So, as you can see most of these projects can be adapted to do with toddlers....they don't really care what their picture looks like, they just like to DO it! It's a great process for them as well.
Their end product looked way different after they smeared the corn syrup all over.....I think they look very cool and very shiny. I will warn you, they take awhile to dry especially if you have big puddles of corn syrup. Also, make sure you lay on wax paper underneath the egg or you will have a sticky mess and possibly ruin the egg trying to get it up.
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