Grab your plastic Easter eggs and marbles because today we’re making Easter egg marble painting art. This art project is like classic marble painting but with a fun, unexpected, seasonal twist that kids love.
It’s the perfect day to try Easter egg marble painting
This wiggly, silly, colorful, hilarious art project is a hit with kids (and adults) of all ages.
Since it uses simple supplies, it’s easy to set up and get started in no time.
We first started making Easter egg marble painting art years ago and we’ve done this activity every Easter since.
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Easter egg marble painting is the ultimate Easter process art project
For something to be process art, it has to check off a few boxes.
- No two final pieces will look the same ✅
- There’s no intended outcome or model to copy ✅
- Kids are encouraged to experiment with materials ✅
- Endless opportunities for creativity ✅
Guess what? This activity checks them all off.
Check out some of our other favorite Easter process art projects:
- Orizomegami Dip-and-Dye with Easter Egg Dye
- Air-Dry Clay Easter Eggs
- Painting with Peeps
- Easter Shake Process Art
Materials
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- Plastic Easter eggs
- Marbles – if you don’t have marbles, small rocks work great
- Paint – this set is under $5 and fabulous
- White paper
- Shallow tray or cardboard box
How to do Easter egg marble painting art
- Add one marble to each plastic Easter egg, snapping it back together when done
- In the bottom of a cardboard box or shallow tray, add one piece of white paper, some squirts of paint, and the plastic Easter eggs.
- Shake, rattle, and roll! Move your tray side to side, forward and backward, and all around.
Invite your child to observe the lines made in the paint by the eggs and the colors as they mix.
I love hearing kids say things like, “I am making lines that go left to right!” and “The pink and blue mixed right here and made purple.”
Do you have to use marbles in the eggs?
Yes and no.
You can absolutely do this project without marbles, but your eggs will move veeeery sloooowly in the paint. You’ll often need to push the eggs through to help them move from one side to the other.
However, marbles give the eggs enough weight to move speedily through the paint (which makes it 100 times more fun).
Tip: Try this project with and without marbles as a fabulous Science activity exploring motion, gravity, and velocity.
Some fun things you can do with your finished pieces
Each piece is colorful, a little crazy, and loaded with fun!
Of course, you don’t have to do anything to the final pieces; they’re works of art on their own.
If your child ends up making a ton and wants some fun ways to use their beautiful papers, you can:
- Cut them into fun shapes (ex: bunnies, Easter eggs)
- Glue them to a larger, colorful piece of paper as a “frame”
- Collage on top with things like stickers, googly eyes, pom-poms, and foam shapes
- Use them as cards
No matter what you do, we know they will be spectacular.
A quick moment for this paint
Could these colors be any more beautiful? (Said à la Chandler Bing.)
It was love at first sight with this paint, and when I discovered it was under $5, it made this a for-the-record-books kind of love.
I first started playing around with Crayola’s project paint last Summer, and when I posted about it on Instagram asking what other people thought of this paint, I was flooded with hundreds of messages of people raving about it.
It comes in glitter, metallic, and “regular” colors, too, but the bold is just something else.
FAQ
Any that can safely use the materials. Small marbles are used in this project and they should only be used with appropriate adult supervision.
Small rocks work great inside of the plastic Easter eggs, too!
Any kids’ paint should work perfectly.
