Easter Egg Suncatchers

Well, mommy has hurt her back {again} (if anyone has suggestions on how to strengthen your back, please share! 2 pregnancies have done me in!)- so we were hanging around at home today. So I was looking for entertainment and found this seemingly easy craft that I thought Georgia and I could do- Easter Egg Suncatchers. Basically all it takes is gluing tissue paper to paper and cutting it into egg-shapes. They even suggest using contact paper, which would eeliminate the mess of glue. But who keeps contact paper laying around? Glue, I have.

So Georgia tore the tissue paper, then painted the glue onto card stock and wax paper, and we put the tissue scraps down. It was looking very pretty! See...

So, I know you're waiting for the "But, then"... well, what you can't see in my pictures is Lincoln learning to 'self-sooth' in the next room. And by that I mean screaming his head off. I debated adding a picture of his cherry-red, tear-streaked little face to this, but resisted. And Georgia's attention span lasted about long enough to take these pictures and get glue in her hair. So after she'd had a nice post-craft bath and they were both safely in bed napping, I cut out the eggs and hung them. See, so pretty...


All in all, a fun, manageable craft (if your baby isn't screaming the whole time) and you could cut out any pretty shapes. The ones we did on wax paper are fun because the sun shines thru them- the "Suncatcher" part! Happy crafting to you!