After our crazy winter, it might seem hard to believe that Spring is just around the corner, but it is! We also have an early Easter this year. If you haven’t started any spring crafts yet, our Easter Egg Window Art may well be your perfect first project. Easy to do and with such beautiful results. If you are doing this project with young children, you may want to to help them with the permanent marker, but other than that, it is a fun craft for all ages. As an extra bonus, these cost next to nothing to make. Enjoy!
Materials and Supplies for Easter Egg Window Art
- card stock paper
- butcher paper
- water colors
- pencil
- black permanent marker
- vegetable oil
- template
- scissors
- rubber cement
Directions for Easter Egg Window Art
Make a copy of the egg template on card stock. The card stock makes it easy to trace around.
Decide what size eggs you wish to use. Using the template, cut out the largest egg you wish to paint. Trace around it on butcher paper. Continue cutting and tracing moving to the smallest egg you want to trace. This allows you to use one copy of the pattern to make different sized eggs.
Cut out all the eggs you traced.
Fold one egg in half the long way.
Keep the egg folded. Using a pencil, lightly draw a design for your egg on half of the egg. When you are satisfied with the design, go over the pencil lines with a permanent black marker.
Keeping the egg folded, turn it over so the design you just created is under the unmarked half. The butcher paper is quite translucent and you should easily be able to see the black marks you traced on the first half. Using the black marker, trace your design on the other half. Both sides should be a mirror image of one another.
Using the black marker, outline the outer edge of the egg.
Do the same for all the Easter eggs you wish to paint.
Using water color paints, paint the sections of your egg. You will notice that the front of the egg is more colorful than the back.
After the paint dries, rub a small amount of vegetable oil on the front and back of your circle.
Dab off any extra oil.
You will now notice the paper has become translucent and it is hard to tell the front from the back!
Pick a window that gets lots of sun! To hang on a window, cover one side of your design with rubber cement and press on the window.
Stand back and enjoy the beauty of your Easter Egg Window Art!
Rubber cement is pretty nasty stuff, in terms of smell etc. Is there anything else that you’ve found works well to hang them nicely? Thanks!
I agree rubber cement is fairly nasty. Obviously, I don’t let children work with rubber cement, but for some projects it is just the best choice. Often, when sticking something to the windows, I use double sided sticky tape. This works great with tissue paper projects. The trouble with these is that they are rubbed down with oil to get them to become translucent, but tape won’t stick to the oil. I have also used condensed milk to stick items to glass. It dries translucent but it is a bugger to get off and does ruin the project. I haven’t tried it with these, tho, because I can save them and reuse them. So, I use the rubber cement for these. Thanks for asking the question. If someone comes up with another suggestion, I would love to hear it, too! ~Kimara~
I think it would be great to laminate the decorations. Then you could hang them anywhere, with tape or string!
Maybe museum putty would work? You’d see the mark but it doesn’t smell.
could you use parchment paper or freezer paper instead of butcher paper?
White parchment would probably work, but not freezer paper. Freezer paper usually has one side that is waxed or plastic coated and it would not become transparent. You can also use regular regular paper, its not as sturdy and doesn’t become quite as translucent. Also, the water colors can wrinkle it. My suggestion is try a couple of papers and see what works. Having said that… I LOVE butcher paper. I keep a roll of it attached to the back of my desk. I use it to cover my work surface. I doodle on it constantly. And I use it for a ton of projects. It really is quite inexpensive in the long run because a roll lasts forever! ~Kimara~
Oh my god, what a cool idea! and so easy to make. thanks for the inspiration! This Easter egg looks so sweet you shared a great tutorial. Oh my god, what a cool idea! and so easy to make. thanks for the inspiration!
Wax paper probs wouldn’t work huh?
I don’t think the paint would stick to the wax paper. If you don’t have butcher paper, you can use regular drawing paper.