Red Ted Art's Blog

Bringing Colour & Art to Children's Hearts

  • Home
  • About
  • Preschool Crafts
  • Easy Kids Crafts
  • Paper Crafts
  • Free Printables
  • Join Our Newsletter
  • Cookies, Privacy Policies & Disclosure

Humpty Dumpty Crafts – Egg Decorating

March 10, 2014

So… we had some wonderful Fairy Tales and Fairy Tale Crafts recently.. and I thought it would be fun to explore some Nursery Rhymes and crafts to go with them. We already have a popular 5 Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day craft, as well as some little walnut mice, perfect for a Hickory Dickory Dock craft. As Easter is now around the corner, we thought a Humpty Dumpty craft would be appropriate – a Humpty Dumpty REAL EGG craft! Yep. We take a real egg… blow it out and decorate it.

Nursery Rhyme Crafts Humpty Dumpty

Red Ted (6) blew out his very first egg for this and was so very proud. Using real eggs with children is a great way to teach them about handling things with care. Yes, we have had a broken egg or two in the past, but we have survived those mini disasters and the kids now know, that we can “now just make a new one”. So I totally encourage it!

Humpty Dumpty Craft – what you need and how we did it:

  • per humpty an empty blown out egg shell
  • paints – we used ahem acrylics as our eggs are brown und other colours don’t show up so well. If you have white eggs (I am so jealous!) you can use PENS to colour your eggs!
  • pens for details
  • “bits and pieces” you can find for embellishments, we used card for arms and leggs, a bottle top for the hat and ribbons for bows..

Humpty Dumpty Craft - designing your humpty

1) First I got the kids to “design” their Humpty Dumpties. That took away a bit of the pressure of putting brush to egg. It meant they could have several versions I need be and something to “follow”. The kids loved this bit.

Humpty Dumpty - Painting

2) We cut some egg carton as a little “base” for the egg to sit in for painting. I drew a line for the kids, so they knew how far to paint.  And the kids got to work on the Humpty Dumpty’s clothes.

Humpty Dumpty Crafts

3) I then cut out some legs and arms out of card, which the kids also painted.

Egg Decorating Humpty Dumpty

4) Once dry we add the eyes etc. Glued on the card and started rummaging around for details. We added little ribbon bows. And the boy Humpty Dumpty got a hat – made from a black bottle lid, with a black rim made of card (we rather love this hat). And done.

The cardboard legs, means that the Humpty Dumpties can sit up without rolling around. Bonus.

Humpty Dumpty Egg Decorating Idea

One of our Humpties has already had a fall… but luckily he didn’t fall to pieces. Phew.

Clearly this Humpty Dumpty is also great for any Easter Egg decorating competition! If you want more Egg Decorating Ideas take a look!

And here are the Humpty Dumpty words again as a little reminder:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

What others are reading

  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm Egg Decorating IdeasOld MacDonald Had a Farm Egg Decorating Ideas
  • Kids Get Crafty: 5 Little Ducks went Swimming One Day…Kids Get Crafty: 5 Little Ducks went Swimming One Day…
  • 35+ Great School Egg Decorating Competition Entries35+ Great School Egg Decorating Competition Entries
  • Egg Decorating: Easter Bunny CraftEgg Decorating: Easter Bunny Craft
  • Egg Decorating: Dalek Easter EggEgg Decorating: Dalek Easter Egg
  • Top Egg Decorating IdeasTop Egg Decorating Ideas
  • Egg Decorating Ideas: Drip Art Rainbow EggsEgg Decorating Ideas: Drip Art Rainbow Eggs
  • Egg Decorating Ideas – Preschooler Eric Carle EggsEgg Decorating Ideas – Preschooler Eric Carle Eggs
Did you like this? Share it:
Tweet
«
»

Filed Under: Easter, Kids Craft, Nursery Rhymes 5 Comments

Comments

  1. Sarah Butterworth says

    March 11, 2014 at 3:13 pm

    A great project for the kids this Easter!

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      March 11, 2014 at 3:48 pm

      Thank you, Sarah!

      Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Humpty Dumpty Egg Shell Collage - Here Come the Girls | Here Come the Girls says:
    March 20, 2014 at 8:00 pm

    […] Humpty Dumpty Eggs from Red Ted Art […]

    Reply
  2. 20+ Humpty Dumpty Inspired Activities - One Time ThroughOne Time Through says:
    February 12, 2015 at 8:02 am

    […] adorable Blown Egg Humpties from Red Ted […]

    Reply
  3. Mother Goose Kids Crafts - The Crafting Chicks says:
    August 3, 2018 at 9:40 am

    […] Humpty Dumpty Crafts from Red Ted Art […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.

Welcome!

Welcome!

Hello! I am Maggy and I love all things crafty and sharing my craft ideas and how tos.

The aim of this site is to provide easy, do-able and fun crafts for all ages.

Categories

Archives

Crafty Blogs

Copyright © 2019 · Website Design By Jumping Jax Designs

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. These cookies feedback information to our analytics and advertisers. We track views of the site - which pages are visited, whether you are a regular or returning visitor to help generate a more personalised experience. You can switch cookies off or follow the READ MORE link for more and information on how to.OkRead more