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April 15, 2014 | 11 Comments

Paint Easter Eggs in A Bag! {Color Mixing Too!}

mess free easter eggsI want to say that when you paint Easter eggs in a bag, it’s mess-free. For many kids, it would be anyway! My little girl reached right in and grabbed the painted eggs herself. Who am I to say no to that? However, if the fear of creating a mess is something that stops you from getting artsy with your kids? Or, if they are not interested in getting their hands covered in paint, this Easter color mixing activity can be done without any mess. The Easter eggs are artificial and coated with paper. Paint and dye these eggs, just like real eggs, and keep year after year.

Paint Easter Eggs

Gather your materials. You will need some paper or woodcraft eggs, liquid paint, gallon ziplock style bags, and something to rest the wet eggs on to dry. You may also want a piece of painter’s tape to hold the bag in place while pouring paint into it. shake painted easter eggs

First, start by rolling the edges of a bag down and taping the bottom to the table to keep it all stable.

Pour the paint in. Super excited, my daughter used every color the first time!  shake painted easter eggs in ziplock bag

Pop the eggs in. ziplock painted easter eggsIt’s more fun if you pop two in at a time, especially if you shake it, because they clang together. If you are doing this with real eggs only do one at a time or you will have shell everywhere. I imagined she’d shake the bag but she liked squishing it more. shake painted eggs

She reached in to grab the eggs but you can carefully dump the egg onto the carton for drying without ever touching it, which is what I did with the next four eggs. Little hands don’t need to get covered in the paint unless everyone is cool with it!paint easter eggs in a bag

After the initial every color exploration we decided to make some colors rather than sticking with the normal colors. So, of course, the first combination was the classic yellow and blue! color mixing and squish painting in a bag easter eggsNext up was all the “girl colors”. It doesn’t seem to matter how often I say colors don’t have genders. My daughter thinks in the stage of classifying things by gender. I know that this is a stage and helps kids make sense of things but I would be lying if I didn’t say I am looking forward to the next phase. Please tell me I am not the only one?! easy painted easter eggs in a bagYou can use the same bag or grab a new one. To reuse the bag, wash them out with water. Fill them up and pour the water out. Turn the bag inside out and give a quick wipe.  Let dry. decorate easter eggs in a bag

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Filed Under: Age Preschool, Age: Toddlers, Easter, Easter Eggs, Preschool Crafts, Shake Painting, Ziploc Painting | 11 Comments

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11 Comments

  1. Anik says

    April 15, 2014 at 3:01 am

    Looks like a great fun! My Mr Frog loves mixing colors (and messy play too!) so such idea for painting the eggs would be perfect for him! Thanks!

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  2. Georgina @ Craftulate says

    April 15, 2014 at 7:52 am

    We love mess free ideas! Pinning!

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  3. kristina says

    April 15, 2014 at 11:45 pm

    Brilliant! We’ve done mess free painting with paper eggs but never even considered doing the real thing. SO GENIUS! Totally trying this.

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  4. Elaine says

    March 24, 2015 at 8:37 am

    I’m curious about the paint easter eggs in a bag. Can you eat them? Do they peel easily? Does the color transfer to hands when peeling?

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    • Allison McDonald says

      March 24, 2015 at 6:52 pm

      As stated in the post these are artificial, but you could paint real ones. I’d make some finger paint and pop it in a bag. Here is link to how to make edible finger paint –>https://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2014/02/easy-finger-paint-recipe.html

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  5. Donna says

    March 17, 2018 at 8:47 am

    Want this for littlest of my grands.

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