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Grandparents and Grandchildren Together: Easter Crafts

Grandparents, as you know, Easter will soon be here which provides for a great opportunity to sit down and spend quality time with your grandchildren. While creating one of a kind artistic masterpieces to cherish, take advantage of your time together and chat about anything and everything that comes along. I’m sure it will become a well thought of memory for both grandparents and grandchild in years to come.

My daughter, the preschool teacher, suggested these first 2 Easter crafts for me to share with you. She knows grandparents and grandchildren will enjoy them. I hope you enjoy all 7 crafts I have listed here. What crafts did you enjoy creating with your children, and now your grandchildren? I’d love to know and share with my readers!

Easter Egg Sun Catcher Materials: cardboard construction paper (any color) tissue paper (pastel colors) markers glitter scissors clear glue stick clear contact paper string or yarn double sided tape suction cup for hanging

Instructions:

cut an egg shape out of the cardboard, about 11 inches long. Use this as a template to cut out a large egg from the construction paper draw different shapes and patterns to cut out on the egg cut out the designs and leave them for later decorate the egg as you please using a clear glue stick and glitter, markers, etc. place a sheet of contact paper a little larger than your egg on a table with sticky side up. (anchor contact paper with double sided tape at the corners to prevent slipping around) turn the Easter egg over and lay it on the contact paper and press down cut or tear pieces of tissue paper to fit in the cut-out sections and press them down onto the contact paper showing through decorate the second side of the egg as you did the first side make a loop with the yarn or string and glue it to the middle top...

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