Children love crafts, especially when they are easy and you can quickly see a result. We therefore marbled white plastic eggs and decorated them with glitter. Here are the instructions for you:
Painting plastic eggs
Shopping list:
- White plastic eggs – alternatively also Styrofoam eggs (however, the result will not look quite as beautifully shiny)
- Marbling paint in various colors, e.g. easy-marble by Marabu (www.marabu-kreativ.de)
- Glitter glue
- Wooden skewers
- old bowl (one that is no longer used for food!)
- tall glasses or containers (for drying the eggs)
- small stick for mixing
Instructions
To prepare, fill an old bowl with water – high enough so that the eggs can be nicely submerged. Warning: the marbling paint leaves ugly colored edges that are almost impossible to remove. Therefore, really do not use any container that is to be used for food later. Put the plastic eggs on wooden skewers and have tall glasses ready for drying them.
The children can then drip two different marbling paints onto the water – just a few drops are enough. Then pull a small stick through it a little to mix the colors. The eggs placed on the sticks are then slowly dipped into the colored water and nicely turned in it. After that, the eggs must be pulled out of the water quickly so that the paint sticks to the eggs. Smaller children may still need help with this. After drying, the eggs can then be decorated with glitter glue, e.g. Glitter-Glue by Uhu (www.uhu.de/produkte/kreativ-produkte/detail)
Conclusion
My children had a huge amount of fun doing the craft. Even my two-year-old quickly produced presentable results, which made him very proud. And my eldest does not want to give the eggs away anymore, but wants to keep them for herself. The results can be seen in the photo.
The great thing about marbling paints is that they can be used for almost all materials. We have already marbled Christmas baubles made of Styrofoam and wooden tealight holders. The results have always been impressive, and crafting is really a lot of fun.
Image by Janine, meinhaushalt.at
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