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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects > Easter Crafts >How to Make Easter Egg Animal Faces
Now that Easter is upon us, it is time to have fun decorating eggs. You don't have to limit yourself to just dying, tinting, or painting Easter eggs. You can be creative and make your eggs into even more than your normal Easter egg. Here is a craft that includes cutting out shapes and gluing them onto your eggs...to turn them into animal faces. You don't have to make the animals that we included here...these are just examples. The example animals below are an elephant, bunny rabbit, and a baby chick. Have fun making your Animal Faces. You Might Also Like Egg People Faces.
Eggs
Paint
Construction Paper
Broom Straw
First, prepare your Easter eggs as normal by piercing each end of an uncooked egg with a needle or pin. Blow through the hole at one end of the egg, catching the contents in a bowl. . If there is difficulty in blowing eggs, make the hole a little bit larger. Eggs are now ready for painting or dipping in egg dye.
1. ELEPHANT — Paint or tint a white blown egg to a light gray. Draw and cut out ears and a trunk of dark gray construction paper, as in Figures A and B. Bend ears at broken line and glue in place. Paint on features and glue trunk in place.
2. DUCK — Use cream colored blown egg, held lengthwise. Draw and cut out duck's bill of orange construction paper, as in Figure C. Fold bill on broken line and glue in place. Paint on eyes.
3. RABBIT — Use brown blown egg. Draw and cut out ears of pink construction paper, as in Figure D. Bend ears at broken line and glue in place. Paint on features. Glue on whisk broom straws for whiskers. Add bow tie.