Then using a pin prick the holes and then using a large tapestry needle and thread sew around the edge. Last year I then glued the rabbit heads onto ice-cream containers and we wore them as Easter hats. Quick, easy, effective and keeps the students very busy. Paper Eggs Jennelle uses this craft activity to enhance small motor skills, to help preschoolers practice with directions and to help them learn colors. Balloons, starch, old newspaper, paint and water.
Teachers take the newspaper and cut it into small strips, then lay out enough for each child.
Make the starch mixture by combining the water and the starch. Then teachers blow up 1 balloon for each child. The children place the newspaper strips in the starch and then place it on the balloon. After the children have covered the whole balloon find a spot to put the balloons overnight. The next day you let the kids paint their paper balloons and let them dry.