Volcano Egg Painting for Easter!

Erupting Eggs in Creative Arts!

I was bored with the typical Easter Egg coloring methods....BORED!  

Is that a terrible admission? 

 Teaching preschoolers is my passion.  I have been at "my passion" for over 10 years and when holidays roll around and the "typical" crafts to go along with it, I am less than enthused (insert sigh...)  If you are the parent of more than one little one, I am certain you can share my sentiment.

I originally ran across this idea when looking into some letter "V" activities on several other blog sites.

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When I ran across Dinosaur Eggs I KNEW I would have a major hit on my hands!  These kiddos LOVE everything messy, everything fizzy, everything creative!

Set up was easy, clean up was a breeze, but the place did smell like Easter for a few days because when you have 10 children coloring eggs it takes a TON of vinegar!

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THAT LOOK! This little guy is a HANDS ON learner!! I allowed the children to mix all their own ingredients. I simply provided the baking soda, vinegar, and food colors with appropriate clothing and let them create, mix, and observe the show! Here he has just dipped his paintbrush into the vinegar and baking soda, then colors and it watching it erupt at the end of his paintbrush. Sensory, Creative Arts, Science...all rolled into FUN!!!

Here is how we started. One hard boiled egg with baking soda underneath. I put red, yellow, blue, green drops of food coloring in four corners of the bowl. In a separate bowl, I put the vinegar and each child received their own egg, baking soda bowl, and vinegar bowl!

Seriously this easy!

Here is the actual fizzing action taking place. Dip in vinegar, dip in baking soda/food coloring.

Fizzy fun that resulted in questions, observations, color mixing, and LOTS of colorful eggs.  Perfect for pre-k!! 

I wish you well and I hope you get to play today!

-L