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This project was inspired by the book An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Aston and Sylvia Long. It's a beautifully illustrated book with a two-page spread on various eggs in gorgeous watercolors varying in size for accuracy. I loved it so much we watercolored our own version of it for this unit, but later decided to make full size egg replicas using our Sculpey Ultra Light Oven Bake Clay. This stuff is amazing! It's super soft and stays soft indefinitely until you bake it. It's easy to work with as opposed to typical polymer clay which can get hard and crumbly over time. It also bakes light weight and it's easy to paint with acrylic paints.

We did this activity as a group project with my 12-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. Unfortunately, my daughter didn't show much interest in participating, in part because this unit was completed in the summer and by then, the kids weren't interested in much.

I helped a lot with this activity because shaping the eggs was a bit challenging. Also, there ended up being quite a few eggs to paint in the end, so I helped with that too.

For this project, we also used our Distress Inks to watercolor the edge of the paper. We used 140lb. Strathmore watercolor paper and Copic markers for the title and labels. We used various brands of acrylic paints.

For more pictures and details for this project, you can check out the blog post that accompanies this video on my website:
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