Easy Easter Craft for Toddlers: Egg Collage

This is a super fun and cute craft, we had a blast making it as a family this weekend!

What you'll need:
scissors
glue sticks
8 x 8 inch square of card stock in any colour
scraps of patterned paper in coordinating colours
ribbons, stickers, glitter glue, and other decorations of your choice (basically, whatever you have lying around the house)

Steps:
1. Prepare all of your materials.  First draw an egg shape on a sheet of card stock. Make it as large as you can fit on the card stock.  Then cut your scraps of paper into small pieces, about 1.5 square inches (but they don't need to be exact, uniform, or even square!). Cut enough to cover the entire square of card stock.  We each made one egg (four in total) so I made piles of coordinating paper - so that we would have one egg that was covered in different shades of pink paper, one in yellow/orange, one in blue and one in green.

2.  Place the side of the card stock with the egg drawn on it down against the table.  Help your child to apply glue to the back of the pieces of patterned paper and apply it to the card stock, covering the entire sheet and overlapping the paper when necessary.

3. Once the square is covered entirely, flip it over and cut out the egg shape so that you are left with an egg that is covered in a paper collage.

4.  Apply any decorations you like, but try to use strongly contrasting colours to the patterned paper.  For example, if your egg is covered in pink papers, use blue and green decorations.  Or if your egg is covered in pastel paper, use decorations in saturated colours.

And that's it, you have a beautiful homemade Easter decoration that you and your child can be proud to display in your home.  We always hang our seasonal crafting decorations in the window of our dining area.