Easter Egg Competition

What better way to celebrate the arrival of Easter than creating your very own Easter egg? Follow our handy step by step guide and then unleash your artistic talents to create an Easter egg masterpiece! What’s more, if you enter your creation into our Easter egg competition, you could win a hamper of egg-citing Easter prizes! Get cracking and find out how below!

You will need

PVA glue
Water
Cup
Balloon
Newspaper
Paints
Felt tip pens, stickers, glitter and anything else you may want to use to decorate your egg!

Steps

Step 1

Whip up a magical potion by mixing equal parts water and PVA glue in a cup.

Inflate a balloon until it’s a big as an Easter egg!

A cup filled with PVA glue and water sat next to a deflated balloon

Step 2

Shred newspaper sheets and dunk each one into your mix one by one, layering onto your balloon until it’s completely covered.

An inflated balloon partly covered with strips of newspaper and PVA glue

Step 3

Once the balloon is completely covered in newspaper, leave to dry

An inflated balloon entirely covered with strips of newspaper and PVA glue

Step 4

Flip the Easter egg over and pop the balloon

Step 5

Let the painting begin! We suggest starting with a white base to give you a blank canvas to work on

Step 6

Decorate however you like! We have used the Maped Creativ blow art set to create a speckled, egg shell effect. You could use glitter, stickers, felt tip pens and crayons to complete your design!

A 3D paper Easter egg decorated with pens, stickers and glitter

Head over to our Facebook or Instagram pages and upload using the tag #mapedeasteregg before midday on 25^th March for your chance to win a fantastic Easter hamper! Good luck!

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