Peek – A- Boo – Eggs !
How cute are these peek-a-boo eggs? If you think these are cute you are going to be falling all over yourself at the photos on Katherine Marie Photography’s site. Wow. Beautiful and she is crafty too. To see more of this adorable spring craft, pop over to her site Katherine Marie Photography. Here is how we tried (tried is the word to focus on) to recreate them.
Peek-A-Boo Eggs
- Gather your materials. You will need some cardboard, paint, glue, paper in yellow for the chick, and pastels for the dots, a paper fastener, marker, scissors, a feather, googly eyes or buttons, and some tape.
- Start by drawing an egg on the cardboard with a zig zag break in it.
- Have your child paint this. Try to stick with light colors. We used pretty dark ones and it made our egg look more dinosaur than Easter. Let dry.
- While they are painting, draw a simple chick on the yellow paper.
- Add eyes, a beak, and, of course, a feather – I taped the feather on.
- Cut out small circles for decorating the egg. I used scrap card stock.
- When the egg is dry, then cut out.
- Add your glue for the cardstock dots.
- Add the dots, and then let dry.
- Poke holes in both the top and bottom egg shells and thread the fastener through.
- Add your chick. Again, I used tape.
- Open.
- Close!
Thanks to Katherine Marie for sharing this wonderful peek-a-boo eggs craft!
Book!
“First The Egg” by Laura Vaccaro Seeger is the perfect book to introduce life cycles to young kids. It doesn’t go into great detail, but it doesn’t have to. It is perfectly effective just the way it is. Each page shows one stage, like a seed, and the following, the result of a flower. My son loved this book and I think older children would, too. It’s simple but isn’t infantile. I think the Easter bunny may be bringing this to our house for keeps in a few weeks!
Beverly says
That is so cute! I love it!
Tanya says
Holy mackeral! Katherine – your blog is amazing! Allie – I love your original take on the inspiration piece. Super cute! 🙂
Allie says
Aren’t her photos to die for? I wanted to have a whip cream fight after reading that post too !
Jennifer says
I love that! I definitely want to try that with my kiddos. Coincidentally, I just purchased some brads this past weekend!
Baba says
Stopped in to party! Those are just too cute!
katherine marie!! says
ahhhhh thanks guys!!!! Allie– I love your version! Isn’t it amazing when we all create the same “thing” and yet they turn out so unique?!
You guys gotta try a whip cream fight this spring– your kiddos will NEVER forget it!
Thanks ALLIE for posting this!! 🙂
Andrea says
SO fun! My kids are fascinated with baby animals coming out of eggs. It would be fun to do some other creatures like a snake or other reptiles too. Thank you both for sharing with us!
Allie says
Good thinking Andrea!
~Sara says
Great idea! Love it!
Christi says
That is a great craft. I will be adding that to our Easter egg plans. Thanks for sharing!
blp3 says
I love your blog it is fun and made me smile
Jamie says
I love your blog! Tons of great ideas and I will be coming back for many more ideas…my 2.5 year old daughter loves craft time and sometimes I seem to run out of ideas…not anymore! We just made the chicks yesterday! Check them out…
http://purejoycreative.blogspot.com/2009/03/easter-eggs.html