Egg Shell Flower Art Tutorial

You may or may not have already dyed your Easter eggs but whatever you do, don’t throw away those beautiful and colorful egg shells! You can make some super easy and cute artwork with your little one’s and teach them about mosaic art in the process. It’s easy, hands-on fun for little ones 3 and up.

Supplies:

Egg Shells

Thick Paper

Elmer’s Glue

Sharpie

Watercolors (optional)

First you’re going to take your dyed eggs and turn these,

…into these.

Just keep a bowl nearby for kiddos to discard those used shells and try to keep some of those shells as big as possible, like half-the-shell size. Next, use some heavy cardstock or even construction paper–whatever you have on hand–and draw some pretty flower stems, like this.

Now let your kiddo make a giant glue blob at the top of the stem. This is one time they really can’t have too much glue. The circle needs to be big and thick with glue.

Now find a good half egg shell and place it directly over the glue.

Then let them smash it down as hard as they can breaking the egg shell into little pieces.

They may have to go back and press down some bigger pieces so it gets stuck in the glue.

Then do it again!

And again!

Smash, smash, smash!

Yay! Cute egg shell flowers.

We also drew some other simple pictures and just started gluing smaller egg shell pieces to our art work. You could really be as detailed and mosaic-y as you want.

Shazam!

Next we added a little watercolor to the backgrounds….

And Voila!

Works of art.

I have to say I think this piece by PSP is my favorite.

Enjoy!