Our Disney friends at spoonful.com have shared one of the cutest Easter egg crafts around: the Mickey Easter egg! This is a craft intended for school-aged children because of the painting and cutting skills involved, but those with children aged 4-5 years may also want to use this as a valuable placement and learning skills exercise for children, too.
Mickey Easter Egg
Materials
- Hardboiled white egg (or wooden egg), painted black
- Ruler
- Scissors
- Cardboard tissue tube (1 1/2 inches or so in diameter)
- Black craft paint and paintbrush
- Strip of red craft paper (1 1/2 - by 5-inches)
- 2 small white buttons (about 3/8 inch in diameter)
- Glue dots
- Template for Mickey Mouse Easter Egg
- Cardstock, black and white
Directions (please refer to directions on the website)
- Cut a 2-inch section from the cardboard tissue tube, paint it black, and let it to dry. Note: Another option is to make your own tube by rolling up and stapling a strip of black card stock.
- For Mickey's shorts, wrap the red craft paper around the bottom of the tube and glue the ends together to hold them in place. Glue the white buttons to the front of the shorts.
- Place the painted egg atop the tube, with the narrower end down. Then print the template on a sheet of white card stock. Cut out the Mickey face and use glue dots to stick the upper portion to the front of the egg, but allow the chin to extend slightly over the outer tube.
- For the finishing touch, use the ear template piece to cut out a pair of Mickey ears from black card stock. Fold the ear tabs, as shown, and glue them to the top of the egg so that the ears stand upright.
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