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Easter Egg Spin Art Garland

March 31, 2012 by Anna Ranson

We used one of our favourite methods of painting to create a beautiful spin art Easter egg garland!
I cut some simple egg shapes from coloured card and dug out our paint-stained salad spinner!

 The girls knew exactly what to do and even selected their own paints. Of course, the glitter paints were top choice!

They dropped an egg shape into the basket, secured underneath with a piece of blu-tac, and then liberally squeezed paint splurges on top.
 
Then the lid went on and they did their best to spin as fast as they could!

 And, as always with spin art, the results were varied and beautiful!

 I love this sunny one! Gorgeous.

Here they are laid out to dry in the sun.

 As usual when we get the salad spinner out, we can’t stop! So we made zillions between us!

 A few times the eggs flew off their central position and ended up stuck to the inside of the basket. Those were some of my favourites!

 Once they were all dry I sewed through the tops using a needle and thread, securing the thread behind each with a piece of tape so that they wouldn’t slip.

 They look pretty hanging in the window and the girls keep pointing them out and telling us that they made them 🙂

 These would also look fabulous stuck to the front of an Easter card.

Learning Links:

  • creativity: explore a range of media in two and three dimensions, experiment with colour mixing
Cakie: 3 years 6 months
Pop: 2 years
See also our introduction to spin art and our spin art fireworks!

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Comments

  1. Val says

    March 31, 2012 at 6:22 pm

    They are gorgeous! I saved the one that haas 8 eggs in it for my desktop picture–hope that was OK! Great spinning-guys!

  2. Allison says

    March 31, 2012 at 7:32 pm

    These are great!

  3. Hobbsy's House says

    March 31, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    What a fantastic idea, definitely one I shall be doing with my kids and mindees over Easter. Thanks!

  4. http://mylittlehappies.blogspot.com says

    March 31, 2012 at 8:36 pm

    This is fantastic! The eggs turned out so beautiful!!! We will definitely have to try this!! Hmm, I’m going to have to get a salad spinner stat! 🙂

  5. Morskaia says

    March 31, 2012 at 9:14 pm

    super!

  6. Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin Tree says

    March 31, 2012 at 10:24 pm

    These turned out great! YOu know how we love spin art!

  7. Rach says

    April 1, 2012 at 11:59 am

    Beautiful. I hope you don’t mind, I pinned it.

  8. cheapcraftymama says

    April 1, 2012 at 1:13 pm

    What a fun idea! I need to find an old salad spinner so we can play too!

  9. cheapcraftymama says

    April 1, 2012 at 1:14 pm

    egg spin art

  10. Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says

    April 2, 2012 at 11:30 pm

    I love this – we still haven’t done any spin art and I think J may finally appreciate it and T will love the sound the salad spinner makes so I’m going to try

  11. School Sparks Renee says

    April 3, 2012 at 3:32 am

    Wow! How neat to use a salad spinner that way. Great idea! Renee

  12. Debs- Learn with Play @ home says

    April 3, 2012 at 7:10 am

    I love the pictures! Still need to buy an extra salad spinner in order to give this a try. Not too keen on using our current kitchen one. I’m picturing pink and purple lettuce.. probably won’t work, lol. Debs

  13. Cas444 says

    April 3, 2012 at 11:54 am

    Made these this morning. So easy and lots of fun. My 4 yr loved seeing the results after a really fast spin! They look fantastic and I’m going to hang them as bunting tonight as a surprise for the morning. Thanks for the great idea 🙂

  14. CacheyMama says

    April 3, 2012 at 5:09 pm

    Congrats, you have been featured on the TEACH Awards!
    http://preschoolteacher81.blogspot.com/2012/04/teach-awards.html
    Lori @ Cachey Mama’s Classroom

  15. MsXpat says

    April 5, 2012 at 9:23 pm

    Absolutely lovely. This technique could be used to decorate cards,stationary etc. Nice.

  16. Anonymous says

    March 14, 2013 at 12:50 pm

    I wonder what an alternative to spinning could be!?

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