VIDEO: Painting Easter eggs with children

Colorize Easter eggs in two colors together with children

If you want to paint Easter eggs with children, you can, for example, color them in two colors and the Colours run into each other. This has the effect that the eggs later look like they have been tieed.

1. For the type of coloring, first put, for example, a red and a blue Easter egg color tablet into a separate bowl.
2. Dissolve the colored tablets according to the instructions on the package.
3. You should then put disposable gloves on your children. In the event that you too want to dye eggs, you should also wear disposable gloves.
4. Dip one side of the boiled egg in the red paint and the other half in the blue paint.


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5. Then you have to take the egg between your hands and roll it back and forth. The colors now run into each other and look very unusual.

Paint Easter eggs with a brush

Instead of coloring the eggs with egg dye, you can paint them with watercolor and a brush. This particularly encourages your children's creativity.

1. To be able to paint it easily, you should first attach the egg in an Easter egg painting machine. With this machine, the egg is screwed between two simple screw clamps so that it does not have to be held between the hands while painting.
2. Now your children can paint the egg as they please. You can paint in colorful Easter motifs or different patterns as inspiration.
3. Only when the paint is completely dry should you remove the egg from the machine, for example to serve it for Easter breakfast.

How to paint Sesame Street characters on the Easter eggs

• In order to make the Sesame Street figures, Bert first paints the egg completely yellow. When the paint has dried, stripes of red, yellow, green and blue appear on the lower part. These stripes are the sweater. Made of black felt Now cut a matching narrow strip that you glue onto the egg as an eyebrow. Underneath there are two small, round, wobbly eyes and now all that's missing is an orange dot for the nose, a long red line for the mouth, and the first figure is already done.

• Even Ernie, who always laughs in a friendly manner, is easy for you to paint on Easter eggs with your children. First the egg is painted orange and this time there are horizontal stripes in red, yellow and blue on the lower part of the egg. For the face, take two oval googly eyes and paint the rest of the face in the same way as before described. Finally, you can cut a few strips of different lengths from felt and glue a hairstyle to both figures.

• Your children are sure to know the characters from Sesame Street so well that they are now drawing a blue egg and using two big, bobble eyes to paint the cookie monster. So that Oskar can take part in the Easter bouquet, you have to paint a green egg with two large, brown eyebrows and two round goofy eyes.

• With this simple basic structure and only one basic color per character, all figures of Sesame Street can be reproduced very easily. And if you don't know how to do a figure yourself, your children are sure to know how to do it say what the characters look like and in no time you will have beautiful Easter eggs with your children painted.

Additional author: Alexandra Muders