Craft fail

Ok... so I attempted something I thought would be fun for my kids, and it turned out a failure. Doh! A bit ago I posted a craft on my facebook page where you fill egg shells with paint and throw them at a canvas. It looked like so much fun and something right up my alley. I found the post over at Growing a Jeweled Rose.  She gives some really interesting ways to re-use egg shells, so I highly recommend clicking the link to see all of them. For this one all you need are egg shells, that have been cleaned and dried, paint, tissue paper and a glue stick. 


I dressed my children appropriately, gathered my supplies, and went outside. I had been saving my eggs for this occasion, which need to be cracked a certain way for this to work. My children helped me fill the eggs and seal them up with the glue stick and tissue paper.

 I figured my children would enjoy this since they like coloring and helping mommy paint. It never crossed my mind that my 2 yr. old little boy would just crack the egg in his hands...>.<  I didn't get to get pictures of this because my son had paint everywhere and I got it all over my hands so I couldn't touch my camera until I got them clean, it was a little chaotic for just a moment haha. After cracking the eggs in his little hands, he wasn't very interested in throwing them.

My 3 1/2 year old couldn't quite throw them hard enough for them to crack open. So I threw a few just to loosen them up so that the shells would crack easier when Zoe threw them. 

All in all it was fun, I just thought the children would enjoy it more than they did. The end result was messy and had bits of egg shell all over it so I didn't even take a picture. Oh well, it was colorful and afterwards they got to play with the hosepipe..so they were happy.