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Get your toddler active & boost their creativity with this Easter egg rolling painting using plastic eggs (no worries, not the real ones!). Add in rolling ball painting for any time of year!
It’s sometimes hard to do a toddler art activity when all they do is just sit and create. Henry is particularly this way. That’s why big art is my favorite kind of art.
Big art, to me, is any kind of art that involves movement to make it. Burning off some energy while making something pretty!
This egg rolling painting is a great example of Big Art! And it’s perfect for toddlers and preschoolers and it’s lots of fun!
I decided to take this big art activity outside. It took Henry awhile to get into it.
At first, he only wanted to play with his dump truck and stack the paints in it.
Egg Rolling Painting: Movement + Creativity for Easter
I started by showing him what we’d do to spark some interest. That got Henry to join me soon after.
This art activity was inspired by Tinkerlab’s Rolling Easter Egg Painting and Teaching 2 and 3 Year Old’s Cars Down Ramp in Paint. But, Henry created and played with the paints in his own way.
I set out 4 containers and put a blob of paint in each. Henry rolled the plastic Easter eggs (along with a ball) in the paint to get them nice and covered.
I laid out a piece of cardboard on our sidewalk (which is slanted). I taped a couple of pieces of butcher paper on the cardboard.
Henry rolled the paint dipped eggs down the paper. The eggs usually needed some pushing to keep them moving.
The egg rolling process was fun! We never knew where the Easter egg would go… Each paint path it made was different from the previous one.
Egg rolling painting for the win!
Why not try it with other objects we have around?
We added balls this time as well. But you can also do this inside in a cardboard box with a piece of cardstock in the bottom of your box (bonus, cut into holiday shapes!).
You could use marbles, plastic toys or even real eggs. See what fun ways you can make new textures!
Egg Rolling to Rolling Ball Painting
If you don’t have an plastic eggs to do egg rolling painting, then you can just use any balls you have lying around (I don’t know about you, but we tend to have them all over…).
Henry like to kick his ball down the paper while painting!
The design the ball we had added a lot of interest because of the circles. Henry said that a couple of the paint circles the ball made looked like glasses!
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This was a very messy activity, so I do recommend doing it outside.
Henry’s clothes ended up covered in paint (take precautions with the 10 ways to keep messy play clean). I cannot stress how much I love Crayola Washable Paints (affiliate link)!