Spring / Easter Kids Craft - Tiny Eggshell Plant Pots

Start saving your egg shells so you can use them to plant some seeds for spring planting. You can make some really pretty eggs that have seeds planted in them. You can decorate the eggshell before you place the soil and seed in it so once the seeds grow into tiny plants you have a beautiful plant. This is a great craft project for kids to do. It is easy as long as you don't break the eggshell but eggshells are cheap so if you do break it while you are coloring it you can just grab another and try again.

If you start saving your eggshells now you can get a large batch of eggshells to use for this nifty craft project. When you crack the egg try to break the top of the egg so that there is plenty of egg shell left to use as your planter.

To color your eggshells you can use a magic marker or some paint. Color strips, dots or shapes like duck's or stars on your eggshell. As you color your eggshell press lightly on the eggshell so you don't break the eggshell. Once the eggshell is colored let it dry. If a child is coloring the eggshell you may want to explain that the eggshell is very delicate and it may break as the child colors the eggshell. If the eggshell breaks you can give the child another eggshell to color.

When the colored eggshell is dry you might want to put a bottom of some sort on the eggshell so that it is steady and does not tip over. You can curl up a pipe cleaner and glue it to the bottom of the eggshell or you can cut out a circle of cardboard egg carton with a circle cut in the circle to hold the eggshell steady. What ever you choose to make your eggshell steady you can glue it to the bottom of your colored eggshell.

Once your colored eggshell is sturdy you can gently fill it with some loose soil. Don't poke the soil too tightly in the eggshell or your shell might break. Then place your seed into the eggshell and water the eggshell. You can use grass seeds, pepper seeds, flower seeds or bean seeds.

Keep your eggshell planter watered and watch the seeds sprout. When the weather gets warmer you can plant the eggshell outside in the ground. You may want to poke the eggshell before you place it in the ground so the plant can spread its roots easier.