Easter is a great chance to spend some family time together, however with 2 weeks off school, you can find that your children get a little bit of cabin fever! The weather isn’t always particularly kind during April, which means that you may need to find some things to do indoors rather than outside.
With it being Easter, we thought that there was no better idea then to bring a touch of our love for all thing penguins and the quintessential Easter tradition of transforming eggs into something a little less egg like.
If you type in Penguin Easter Craft into Google then you are going to find a variety of videos and images all showcasing how you can easily transform an egg into a rather cute little penguin pal. After all, the body shape of a penguin lends itself pretty well to an egg!
The best thing about this particular craft is that you don’t need a whole lot to bring it together and you can’t really go too far wrong either.
It starts with an egg…. not a chicken!
Let’s start with the most obvious thing, you are going to need an egg. Any old random egg will do, but it is incredibly important that you boil it up, otherwise you are going to end up with egg on your face, on your table, on your floor and pretty much everywhere else if you don’t treat it carefully.
Once your egg is boiled up nicely, then you need to let it cool down, after all, penguins love it when it is nice and cold!
The best place to start is by painting the entire egg white, this will give you the ideal base for creating your penguin, plus it is much easier to paint black over white then it is the other way round. Once the white paint has dried you can add on the penguin shape with a black marker pen, this will give you a guide on where to paint. If you are worried that you won’t be able to get the shape spot on, well, then just make your penguins white bits an oval, we are sure they won’t mind.
No penguin would be complete without wings, even though they are not exactly the most useful to them, these are best made from shaped pieces of black cardboard which can then be glued onto the sides of the penguin. The same goes for the feet, although you may want to make them from orange or yellow card instead.
The finishing touches for your penguin eggy friend comes in the form of eyes and a beak. Much like the feet, the beak is best made from yellow or orange card which you can stick on flat, or perhaps even make a 3D beak if you are feeling particularly crafty.
Before long you will be finding yourself fully addicted and will be ready and willing to make a small army of eggy penguins. Whether your children have long lost interest or not!