Colorful Tissue Paper Easter Egg
Get ready for Easter with this easy and cheerful Tissue Paper Easter Egg craft. Kids can decorate their egg with a cross, a flower, a bunny, or keep it simple with colorful tissue paper all over. This is a fun Easter craft for kids to make at home, in the classroom, or during Sunday School.
This craft is also a nice way to practice fine motor skills as children crumple, glue, and arrange the tissue paper. The finished eggs make bright spring decorations for bulletin boards, windows, or holiday displays.
Fun Facts
Decorative tissue paper has been used in crafts for well over 100 years. In the early 1900s, companies sold tissue paper in a wide range of colors for parties, decorations, and seasonal crafts. That makes tissue paper a classic supply for creative holiday crafts like this one.
Supplies
- Egg pattern
- Small patterns, optional
- Tissue paper in assorted colors
- Glitter or markers, optional
- Scissors
- Paper plate
- Glue
- Newspaper or other surface protector
Instructions
- Print and cut out the egg pattern.
- Cover your work area with newspaper to help protect the table.
- Cut the tissue paper into squares about 2 inches wide. They do not need to be perfectly even.
- Pour a small puddle of glue onto a paper plate.
- Crumple each piece of tissue paper into a loose ball.
- Dip one side of the tissue paper into the glue and press it onto the egg pattern.
- Continue until the egg is covered with bright colors.
- If you would like, print and cut out one of the smaller patterns.
- Decorate the small pattern with glitter or markers, then glue it onto the finished egg.
Patterns, Templates and Printables
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Teacher Friendly Educational Extension
This Easter craft works well as a classroom activity or homeschool art project.
Children can practice:
- Fine motor skills by crumpling and gluing tissue paper
- Color recognition by sorting tissue paper by shade
- Creative decision-making by choosing their own decorations
- Holiday and spring discussion through simple seasonal themes
For a class display, let each child decorate their egg in a unique style and hang them together on a bulletin board for a colorful Easter showcase.
Supplies
Egg Pattern
Small patterns (optional)
Tissue Paper in colors of your choice
Glitter or Markers
Scissors
Paper Plate
Glue
Newspaper
Instructions
Click on Printables and cut out the pattern.
Lay it on newspaper to protect your crafting surface.
Cut tissue paper into approximately 2 inch squares. They don't have to be perfect.
Put a puddle of glue on the paper plate.
Crumple the tissue paper into balls, dip in the glue and affix to the pattern.
If you like, cut out one of the small patterns and decorate with glitter or markers and affix to the finished egg.Â
Patterns, Templates and Printables
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Other Images
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Contributor
These projects are created by Terri, Betty, Jamie or one of the talented staff members at MakingFriends.com. They have been created exclusively for publication on FreeKidsCrafts.com with supplies you'll be able to find around your house.
