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Tape and Paint

Total Time Needed:
Afternoon Or Evening

Here, paint teams up with a material normally used to keep it at bay -- masking tape -- yielding eggs with surprising textures and colors.

Materials
  • Styrofoam or plastic eggs
  • Masking tape
  • Paintbrush
  • Acrylic paint
  • Paper towels
  • ALIEN ENCOUNTER:
  • Markers
  • Googly eyes
  • Felt
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Toothpicks
  • Glue
  • Skewer
  • Cardboard tube
  • Aluminum foil
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Instructions
  1. For each egg, cover the entire surface with 1-inch pieces of masking tape, overlapping the pieces and laying them on as smoothly as possible.

  2. Tape and Paint - Step 2 Working one area at a time, use the brush to dab paint onto the egg, then rub it in with a damp paper towel. Repeat until the egg is covered and is the color you want. Set it aside to dry, about 5 to 10 minutes.

  3. Tape and Paint - Step 3 Take your tape-and-paint eggs further by creating an Alien Encounter. To use pipe cleaner legs or antennae, you'll need to start with a Styrofoam egg.

  4. Tape and Paint - Step 4 For each appendage, use a toothpick to poke through the tape and make a small hole in the foam. Add a dab of glue, then insert a coiled pipe cleaner (we wrapped ours around a skewer).

  5. Tape and Paint - Step 5 For some out-of-this-world-looking stands, we wrapped 1-inch sections of cardboard tube in aluminum foil.

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