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Easter Activity

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Easter Cards

Suitable for:

Levels/Age Group: Ages 5-12

Materials:

Dispersing Paper, Food Dye, Zart Glue Sticks, Cards and Envelopes, Printing Foam, Pencil, Foam Roller, Zart School Colour Paint, Pre-printed Paper, Metallic Papers, Silkee Paper, Beautex Paper, Lace Paper, A4 Pasteboard, Mettex Double-sided Crepe Paper

How to make Easter Cards:

Dispersing Paper Card

1. On a sheet of Dispersing Paper apply Food Dye or inks with a brush or eye-dropper, applying colour on colour or adjacent to one another. The wet colour will blend together to create an amazing result.
2. When the paper is dry cut out an egg shape and glue the coloured paper shape on to a blank card.
3. Write a message inside to card to someone special.

Printed Card

1. Draw a simple pattern on to a piece of Printing Foam with a pencil.
2. Roll paint over the foam and press the wet side down on to a coloured piece of paper or pre-printed paper.
3. When the paper is dry cut out an egg shape and glue the printed paper shape on to a blank card.
4. Write a message inside to card to someone special.

Layered Paper Card

1. Select a number of textured or patterned coloured papers and cut them into strips of varying widths and edges. E.g. straight, wavy or zig zagged edge.
2. Cut an egg shape out of cardboard and glue one of the strips across the bottom of the egg shape.
3. Glue another strip slightly overlapping the first strip and continue up the egg shape until it is completely covered in different paper strips.
4. Turn the card over and trim off any overlapping strips around the egg shape.
5. Glue the coloured paper egg on to a blank card.
6. Write a message inside to card to someone special.

Activity Extension:

Use these techniques to create:
Birthday, Mother’s Day or Father’s Day cards and cut out a shape that would suit the occasion e.g. it might be the shape of a flower for mum, or a car for dad.


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