Decorating eggs with a toddler

Whilst there’s a degree of creativity in our household, you need two steady hands to decorate eggs. I’m already one down from a previous wrist break and I’m attempting craft. With a toddler.

The craft book suggested first off we break each egg in half and join them back together with glue. Clearly asking the impossible we boiled the eggs instead.

Once they’d cooled down, the first job was to glue tissue paper to them. POD ‘helped’ while stabbing the pens we were going to draw on the eggs with into the table. She was then given her own egg to draw on and a stencil. Both were held together in an egg box.

POD’s allergic to eggs so drawing on one caused much excitement. Until the egg shell smashed. Unsurprisingly the stencil was a waste of time, for POD and for me. It was an impossible task trying to hold it onto an egg and colour in the gaps at the same time. We did try. Shortly afterwards however the egg was launched over POD’s shoulder closely followed by a “bellyolly” book and some tissue paper.

After much huffing and puffing POD made a discovery. If you blow on tissue paper it goes everywhere. I’m sure she waited until I had the entire packet loose on the table before she gave it go. Squares of tissue paper littered the table and floated to the kitchen floor reminiscent of a weird butterfly collection. Attempting to catch them mid flight, I realised my hands were covered in glue.

The craft book suggested we stick tissue paper to half of each egg, wait for it to dry and repeat the process. Not an option with a toddler. I decided if I was really careful I could cover each egg sufficiently. Although my fingers did get stuck to the eggs on several occasions, it was achievable. We stopped our craft experiment when POD started drawing blue circles on the table.

Once the tissue paper had dried on the eggs, I was expecting to decorate them. But despite giving them a good covering, they really needed a coat of paint. POD would also paint. Within thirty minutes each egg was looking more respectable and POD had created ten paintings. She’d also added some brown swirls to the table (a “babbit) and made paint gloves for her hands.

I was genuinely looking forward to decorating the eggs but it wasn’t to be. Little flowers looked like splodges of bird poop and we already knew the stencil was a big fail. Arm yanking really didn’t help our creativity levels either. We decided to have some fun with the eggs instead as you’ll see from the photos.

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