Easter Egg Card: Made Out of Noodles

Kids enjoy making giving presents to their parents, and they love even more making it! Well with Easter Day around the corner, what better than to send Easter Day cards to your friends and family. If you're a teacher this is a great inexpensive project that the students can do. The materials needed for the Easter egg noodle card are:

A. Different colored construction paper

B. Elmer's Glue (not glue sticks)

C. Five or more different types of hard uncooked pasta noodles (the more variety the better)

D. Water color

E. Brushes and water

F. Cereal box

G. Paint brushes

H. Glitter pens (optional)

I. Scissors

The first thing that you need to is take one of piece of construction paper and fold it hamburger style. This should give you a card shape. Leave the construction paper in the card shape and trace out a egg on the front. Cut it out. Next, you need to find a cereal box, trace the egg on it and cut it out so that your kids have a stencil to work with.

Make the Card:

First take a piece of construction paper and fold it in half the short way (hamburger style). Next make sure to take your egg stencil you made earlier with the cereal box and trace the egg onto the halved construction paper (open end facing right).

Then draw shapes, zig-zags and any typical Easter egg decoration that you like. Try to chose five or more different shapes of pasta. Glue the pasta into the shapes you've drawn on the egg. The pasta should take the shapes of the pasta. After you've glued the pasta onto the egg wait for the glue to try. After the glue has dried get out your water colors. Paint the pasta with the water colors and wait for it to dry. Keep in mind that the pasta should mirror the image of the egg that you've filled it in with. Dry, and viola!

If you want you could use glitter pens and write "Happy Easter" at the top where the construction paper doesn't have noodles. Be creative you can try and make little bunnies and grass out the noodles too! There is also the option of cutting the egg out and cutting off the extra construction paper and leaving the left side of the egg uncut so that it keeps the card shape.

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