Bleeding Tissue Paper Easter Egg Activity

Have you ever worked with bleeding tissue paper before?  We used it in our latest Easter egg activity and my children LOVED it!  It is such a fun art medium! Explore color theory as you craft up these beautiful and unique Easter eggs!

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ITGIF!!  Time for another fun activity to strenghten those all important fine motor skills.  We hope to share fun, hands-on fine motor activities that your kids will love doing & not even realize that you are sneaking in a way for those little hands to be ready to write!  For this week's Fine Motor Friday activity, we had some fun jazzing up our hand-drawn egg template with bleeding tissue paper.

Just a few materials necessary needed and you have a colorful art project-- perfect for Spring!

Bleeding Tissue Paper Easter Egg Activity

We pulled out our pack of Bleeding Tissue Paper that we used when we created rainbows, spangle mix from craftprojectideas.com, watercolor paper, and glue.

Supplies:

• bleeding tissue paper
• spangle mix
• watercolor paper 
• glue

I sound like a broken record, but Bleeding tissue paper is so much fun to work with!  Seriously-- try it if you haven't already!  And if you have, enjoy using it to create this Easter egg activity.

My kiddos thoroughly enjoyed squirting the tissue paper with water and watching the colors bleed onto the watercolor paper; so cool!

How To Make This Easter Egg Activity:

To prep the activity, a little bit of prep work is required.  First, I cut the bleeding tissue paper into strips thinking the kiddos could tear it into pieces, but they preferred just laying the strip onto the paper.

Then I drew out an egg template on watercolor paper.

Once the activity is ready to go, place the watercolor paper on a tray (or an empty pizza box works great, too!  That's what we used), lay out the tissue paper strips, and have a squirt bottle handy.

Then, let the kiddos create!

Tissue Paper Easter Egg Activity

To keep the tissue paper strips from moving around, I had the kiddos squirt water on the paper as they created... which, worked on strengthening those fine motor muscles.

Lightly squirt water on the paper and lay the strip of tissue paper over it.  Continue adding pieces of tissue paper- overlapping them or layering them.

Once the kids were satisfied with their wet tissue paper creations, we let them dry for a couple of hours.

Once the tissue paper dried, it easily peeled off.  If it is completely dry, the tissue paper will just fall right off.

Once you have taken off this dried tissue paper strips, grab a pair of scissors and cut out an egg shape out of the paper.  To jazz up this easter egg activity even more, I gave the kiddos glue and spangle decorations to decorate the egg.

Manipulating the spangle mix was also fun fine motor practice-- the shiny, small, shaped decorations are very appealing to little hands!

It was a great activity that my 2 and 6 year old could easily do-- they loved it!

I enjoyed snapping photos and following my little guy around the room while the others crafted. 

 My 3 year old was very random about decorating her egg, while my son was very focused on making his own design and patterns.  

This was a fun and easy way to unleash their individual creativity.

I just love the way they turned out!  

The bleeding tissue paper made some pretty neat tie-dye designs and we now have some colorful Easter Egg art!  

More Fine Motor Ideas:

• Spinning Straw Spellers from Still Playing School

• Easter Egg Tracing & Scissor Skills Activities from Little Bins for Little Hands

• Peeps Puppets Easter Games from Lalymom 

• Easter Multi-Activity from Racheous - Lovable Learning

Hope you'll stick around and check out our Easter crafts and learning activities!