Kid Crafting: Washi Easter Eggs

I was planning on sharing this photo on Saturday before Easter, and I'd like to say that I couldn't because of that ridiculous Typepad outage, but in reality, I was totally busy with yard work and cooking for Sunday and all that jazz...so...in an effort to draw out Easter a few more days...here's a cute Easter craft that I blatantly stole from the Internet. That's right, like the majority of my kid crafts, I do not claim credit or responsibility for any of this!!

My first step was using my Silhouette Cameo to create some egg shapes.  At first I thought I was going to have to buy and egg shape from the Silhouette Store because I am a big old die cutting dummy, but after about five minutes, I was able to use the "oval" tool to create some pretty stellar egg shapes. I then gathered some other supplies - namely, washi tape and a craft knife.  A word to the wise - choose tape that you don't mind wasting, because man do kids have NO clue how to conserve product! ;)  

I adhered the negative image to a white piece of cardstock using a single strip of washi, then off my daughter went with the rest of the tape. I just gave her free reign to pick and choose what and where she wanted the tape.

Here is the egg after she finished with the tape:

And here is the final product once I used my craft knife to cut out the egg:

 I took one "in progress" cutting photo...you know...because y'all couldn't figure that out on your own... ;)

They turned out really cute! We made a few more and did some other nifty activities like stacking the washi tape... ;)  

She realized they weren't in rainbow order and had to start over again...that's my girl! ;) In this photo, you can see one of the funkier eggs sitting on the table next to her...not sure why I didn't take a good picture of that one.

The rainbow washi prompted her to make a rainbow egg. I love that she chose to create a (somewhat) symmetrical rainbow going from top to bottom!

 And yes, she is indeed wearing a tutu and a swimsuit over her shirt...because that's just how we roll...

It truly was a fun and easy project. We managed to make six eggs in the short time that her brothers were napping, and if you know them, you know that when I say "short", I really mean it!!  The only bummer is that the washi is not the stickiest of tapes, and the tape is starting to come up on a lot of them. Perhaps I should laminate them and keep them forever. Or throw them away and make more next year. We shall see... ;) Hope all of my Easter celebrating readers (all four of you, ha!) had a great Easter!