DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Water Color Easter Shapes Craft

Contributed by Kaitlyn Guenther

This fun and simple water color craft is a great way for for preschool and kindergarten children to make creative easter shapes.

There are several options of shapes; I used an egg shape, but this craft would also work well for a other easter shapes, like a cross

This craft is great for decorating a wall or bulletin board during the Easter season.

white paper (water color paint warps paper, so the thicker the paper the better; special water color paper works the best but printer paper would be okay too),
printer (or you can freehand draw your own egg),
scissors,
water color paint
paintbrush

Print one of the easter shapes template or draw a simple easter shape free-hand. If you're working with a group of kids you can make a cardboard template or two that they can take turns tracing onto pieces of white paper.
If you are using special paper like water color paper, cut out the easter shape template and trace the shape onto the back of your special paper.
On the front of the paper, use different Water Color Painting Techniques to paint the paper. Paint a larger section of paper than the traced shape, so that when you cut out the shape, it is all covered with water color paint.
Let the paint dry completely and then cut out the traced easter shape.

Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).