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Home / Early Learning / Art and Crafts / Easter Art Activity – Easter Egg Hand Prints

Easter Art Activity – Easter Egg Hand Prints

Shared by Mary Catherine 15 Comments

Each month, I like to have my students make a piece of hand print art.  At the end of the school year, Mary Poppins and I use their hand prints as part of their “preschool portfolio“.  In the past, I’ve done shamrock hand prints, leprechaun hand prints, and bunny hand prints.  This year, I wanted to try something different, which is how this Easter art activity was born.  I feel like there should be some dramatic music inserted at this point.  ðŸ™‚

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Easter Art Activity - Easter Egg Hand Prints

A simple, but fun, Easter art activity for the kiddos

I mixed up some pastel colors — pink, light purple, light yellow, and light blue.  Some of the children were interested in how I created the pastel paints, which led to a quick color mixing lesson.  We talked about how mixing white with other colors creates pastels.  Some decided to help create the pastels, while others preferred to watch.

Once the paints were ready, I called the children over one at a time.  I painted the palm of their hands, as well as four fingers, but not their thumbs.  This gave the illusion of an egg shape.

Easter Art Activity - Easter Egg Hand Prints

After the main hand print dried, I let the boys and girls use paint brushes to decorate their “Easter eggs”.  They seemed to enjoy painting various designs on eggs.  While they were decorating their hand prints, we had a nice discussion about colors and patterns.

Easter Art Activity - Easter Egg Hand Prints

I think these hand prints turned out very well, if I do say so myself.   Later on this month, Mary Poppins and I will take pictures of the students during our Easter celebration.  I’ll also have them write about their hand print, with me there to help of course.  I’ll put the picture, the writing sample, and the hand print onto a large piece of construction paper and laminate everything.  That will give us March’s page of the students’ preschool portfolios.

Easter Art Activity - Easter Egg Hand Prints

What fun Easter art activities and projects are you doing for Easter this year?  I’d love to hear about them in the comments below!

Easter Art Activity - Easter Egg Hand Prints

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  1. Janine Huldie says

    March 17, 2013 at 9:40 am

    I ove this project and have so pinned to try with my own kids for Easter. Thanks so much for sharing and very happy to be following you over at Bloglovin, too!! 🙂

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    • MaryC says

      March 17, 2013 at 9:43 am

      Thanks for stopping by, following, and pinning, Janine! 🙂 Hope your weekend is going well!

      Reply
  2. Rosey says

    March 17, 2013 at 4:34 pm

    This is really cute. I saw a paper crumbled egg that we’ll be doing, and we’ll color eggs and do baskets . 🙂

    This year seems to be moving along really fast.
    I’m visiting today from Super Sunday Sync. 🙂

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    • MaryC says

      March 17, 2013 at 4:50 pm

      Oooh, that sounds like a fun Easter you have planned. Yes, it really does seem to be going by rather fast! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by.

      Reply
  3. DeDe@DesignedDecor says

    March 17, 2013 at 7:58 pm

    These are so cute, great way to be creative with the kids! Hopping from Naptime review!

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    • MaryC says

      March 20, 2013 at 8:56 pm

      Thank you so much for stopping by! 🙂 The kids and I certainly enjoyed making the hand prints together.

      Reply
  4. Jennifer says

    March 19, 2013 at 10:02 am

    Visiting from Mom’s Monday Mingle. Glad to discover your website. I hope you’ll share it at this week’s Friday Flash Blog on The Jenny Evolution (www.thejennyevolution.com). Would love to have you join our community.

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    • MaryC says

      March 19, 2013 at 1:26 pm

      Hi Jennifer! I will try to pop by again on Friday, and thanks for stopping by. 🙂

      Reply
  5. Tracey@We-Made-That says

    March 20, 2013 at 12:29 pm

    Those came out so cute! What a great idea, thanks for sharing on We Made That!

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    • MaryC says

      March 20, 2013 at 1:28 pm

      Thank you Tracey! I’m pretty happy with how they turned out. More importantly, so are the kiddos! 🙂 Thanks for hosting the link-up party at We Made That

      Reply
  6. Rebecca from here come the girls says

    March 23, 2013 at 4:35 pm

    Oh they look brilliant!

    Just popping by to let you know I featured this on The Sunday Showcase http://www.herecomethegirlsblog.com/2013/03/23/sunday-showcase-egg-activities.html

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    • MaryC says

      March 23, 2013 at 7:13 pm

      Thanks so much, Rebecca! I’m so excited to be featured!! 🙂

      Reply
  7. Sugar Aunts says

    March 29, 2013 at 9:06 pm

    I love this idea! Thank you for sharing with us at Share It Saturday. We will be featuring your post tomorrow 🙂

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    • MaryC says

      March 29, 2013 at 10:19 pm

      Thank you so much! I’m excited about the feature. I hope you have a great Easter weekend. 🙂

      Reply
  8. Amanda @artsy_momma says

    February 21, 2014 at 5:05 pm

    Cute idea to make eggs from handprints 🙂

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