Easter Egg Roll & Paint

Welcome to Day 4 of our A Very Toddler Easter series that we are co-hosting with Kristina from Toddler Approved. Each day this week, we are sharing a new Easter activity idea for toddlers. Check out our Easter page for all the Easter activities!

Who doesn’t love a toddler art project? They are literally the most adorable art work that you can put on your fridge and nothing makes a toddler happier than being a featured artist.

That’s why I try to do a simple “fridge worthy” art project with my toddlers each month. Something simple, easy, and fun that we can showcase.

This Easter Art Activity was perfect for my kids!

I was so inspired when I saw this activity idea on Fun at Home With Kids – I knew I had to give it a Busy Toddler spin.

We made painting with Easter eggs into a group activity and invited over some of our best kid friends, and got out every storage tub I own to do it.

It made for a lot of laughing, a lot of giggles and some very fridge-worthy art! I did this activity with my 27 month old and my 3.5 year old, and their friends.

Nothing like a simple art set up!

Materials

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Plastic eggs
Butcher paper – I’m so glad I own a roll of this stuff
Washable tempera paint
Storage containers

Do you see how many storage tubs I own? In my defense, they are so perfect for sensory bins and if I didn’t have this many, we couldn’t do fun friendship art activities like this.

At least that’s the spin I’m putting on this clear addiction…

The kids loved this project – and who wouldn’t?!

I taped down some butcher paper in the bottom of each kid’s storage tub – then added the colors of their choice.

We (aka my Mom friends and I) decided 3 colors would be perfect and would be most likely to still look nice at the end (not like rolled around brown paint – wink).

I dropped in 3 Easter Eggs for each kid and let the rock and roll painting begin.

This was such an arm workout!

I’m not kidding when I say that it was a workout to move these bins. The kids loved shaking the bins back and forth trying to get their eggs good and covered. The messier the egg the better – we wanted those canvases filled with paint!

Wait for it…the end result!

We left these to dry overnight – it was a lot of paint that needed to dry!

Once the art was good and dry, I cut out an egg shaped section that’s been fridge-perfect for Easter season. These canvases were big enough that I even cut out extras to send to the Grandparents. Talk about a one-shot art project.

Imagine all the ways you could use this art work:

Make it into toddler made place cards
Cut it into flowers
Use it as wrapping paper

This Easter Art activity was the perfect art for Easter-time. The eggs came clean with a little soapy water, the toddlers stayed reasonably clean (despite shaking around boxes of paint covered eggs) and the final product is oh-so-cute.