Spring

Three Easy Tricks for Blown-Out Eggs

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Could you use some tips on how to clean eggs, how to blow eggs, or Easter activities for kids? Hopefully, this will help you get started! Today I’m excited to share three little tricks for simplifying blown-out eggs. Messy fun, right? If you’re a traditionalist, you might want to stop reading here. Otherwise, read on… Trick [...]

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Make Your Own Egg Tempera Paint

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It’s Day #2 of Egg Week.  In case you’re just popping in, my talented friend Melissa over at The Chocolate Muffin Tree and I are posting unique egg-related activities or experiments each day this week. I’ve been interested in whipping up a batch of homemade egg tempera paint for a while, and being that it’s egg week and [...]

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Walking on Raw Eggs. Really.

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It’s EGG WEEK on Tinkerlab and The Chocolate Muffin Tree. Melissa and I have come together to bring you a full week of egg activities and experiments that are easy enough to do today or good for bookmarking for a rainy spring day. When I saw this post about Walking on Eggs on Steve Spangler Science, I [...]

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Land Art with Children

We were invited by Rashmie of Mommy Labs to join Forest Fiesta, an online celebration of World Environment Day (June 5) with her and about twenty other arts and education bloggers. This year’s host country was India, and Rashmie came up with the inspired idea to act as our Indian blogging host. Thanks, Rashmie! When you reach [...]

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Creative Challenge #5: Plastic Bottles

Make something with Plastic Bottles In honor of Earth Day, I’d like to raise a little awareness toward the enormous amounts of plastic bottles used around the world, coupled with some thoughts on recycling and upcycling those bottles into creative products. My family is hooked on bubbly water, and while the number of bottles we [...]

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Egg Dyeing Experiments

News break  If you like TinkerLab, please click on over here and give us your vote. We won’t win anything, but the attention sure is nice! +++++   I’m excited to share my first inter-blog collaborative project. Are you ready? Today I’m posting two Easter Egg projects in conjunction with Melissa of The Chocolate Muffin Tree. After [...]

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Rolled Wooden Eggs

This is part of a collaboration with my friend Melissa’s blog, The Chocolate Muffin Tree. Scroll to the bottom for a link to her Two for One: Rolled Eggs. Her colors are amazing! We started with some wooden eggs. Aren’t they pretty? What we used Wooden Eggs Acrylic Paint. Acrylics will stain clothes, walls, etc. Be sure to [...]

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Rolled Easter Egg Painting

When my daughter was about 2 1/2, her very favorite art activity was rolling paint-coated marbles all over sheets of paper. We made Rolling Rock Paintings with smooth rocks and Spooky Marble Spider Webs for Halloween. With Easter coming up, I was inspired to make something fun with the plastic eggs that consume dollar stores across [...]

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