C is for Craft – Easy Easter Craft for Kids

I am a class mom for my son’s kindergarten class.  One of my responsibilities as a class mom is to come up with a craft which coincides with some of the holidays.  Since my son attends a Catholic school, and since Easter is rapidly approaching, this month’s craft had to have an Easter theme.

In search of some inspiration, I fired up Google and did a search for Easter craft ideas  and came across a large number of Easter themed crafts.  This one in particular caught my eye.  I was looking for an easy Easter craft and this one seemed easy enough for kindergarteners so I decided that this was the one.  Plus, I already had most of the supplies I would need for this craft on hand except for the watercolor paint.  I didn’t really want to buy paint because I didn’t want the kids to make a huge mess, so I did some research to try to find something that I could use that would deliver the watercolor effect,  but that would be too messy to use and found these:

These Faber-Castell Gel Sticks These Gel Sticks are basically semi-solid paint sticks that roll up and down. They are kind of like glue sticks.  The consistency is the same,  but instead of glue, they’re comprised of a semi-translucent paint.  These are very easy to use and they were able to produce the desired effect.

Supplies needed:

• Cardstock paper
• Cross template
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Oil Pastels
• Gel sticks
• wet wipes

Instructions:

• Print out cross template from here
• Cut out cross template and trace onto cardstock
• near base of cross, draw a hill in pencil
• Using oil pastels, trace cross using various colors as you go along
• Using oil pastels, trace hill using different shades of green oil pastels
• Using your finger tips smudge the oil pastels off of the cross to form rays.
• Using light strokes, glide different shades of blue gel sticks onto the cardstock to create the sky
• Similarly, using light strokes, glide different shades of green gel sticks onto the cardstock to create the grassy hill..
• Finally, using the wet wipes, rub in the gel to create the watercolor effect.

There you have it!

Have done any crafting for Easter? What did you make?

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— Diane Nassy(@philZENdia) April 4, 2012