Sun Catcher Easter Egg
Hello sun; we’ve missed you!
Question: How shall we honor the sun and ring in spring (and Easter)?
Answer: A stunning, kid-crafted sun catcher, of course!
Here’s what you need:
- Wax paper
- Tissue paper
- Liquid starch
We started by cutting our tissue paper into small squares. Then, after sketching out an egg shape, my preschooler used a paintbrush to apply a thin layer of liquid starch. Next, she pressed tissue paper squares onto the egg, followed up by another brushing of starch. She finished up with a final layer of each.
After the sun catcher dried, it easily peeled away from wax paper. We trimmed out the egg shape and, at this point, the sun catcher was good to go as is — but we decided to take it a step further by making a frame.
For the frame, I placed our sun catcher in the middle of a piece of construction paper and traced it. Setting the sun catcher aside, I drew another egg shape within the traced shape—about a quarter-inch away from the traced egg. I then cut out and discarded the smaller egg, applied a thin layer of glue around the perimeter of the newly created egg-shaped window, and pressed the sun catcher onto the window.
Of course, we didn’t stop there. I had some scrap paper from our previous egg project, the marble painted egg. This scrap paper already had an egg-shaped window, so I glued it onto our sun catcher to give the frame a bit more pizazz.
It’s a beautiful thing to see the sunlight shine through our Easter Egg Sun Catcher!
