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Egg-cellent Ideas for Easter and Beyond

March 25, 2016 By Kim
Tagged With: eggs, projects

Learn how to make stained glass eggs and other egg-citing projects from TheMakerMom.com

Colored eggs are fun to decorate and pretty to look at. And depending on how you decorate them, they're good to eat as well. Whether you decorate eggs as part of a religious observation or as a creative exercise. Here are a few ideas for you. Shaving Cream Eggs Below is a brief tutorial for the pretty Earth-inspired marbled eggs pictured here. More than 115,000 people have watched this, so it must be good, right? (Fun fact: according to my ... [ Read More ]

Egg-splosive Painting Fun!

April 8, 2015 By Kim
Tagged With: eggs, family fun, maker projects, projects

Egg painting. Making art with paint-filled eggs on www.TheMakerMom.com

Last year we prepared a lot of blown eggs. That is we pricked a small hole in the top and bottom of raw eggs and blew out the innards to create hollow eggshells. I can't recall what my goal was, or if there even was a goal. But Easter came and went and I still had several empty eggshells sitting around. My niece was over for a visit and we decided to use the shells for new form of art--egg painting. As in painting with eggs, not on them. Egg ... [ Read More ]

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About Kim

Kim headshot Summer 2012 I’m a Chicago-area mom of teen boys who is passionate about sharing ideas and resources to raise kids who love Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). I’m a blogger, vlogger, baker and maker, as well as the founder of #STEMchat. I also write about parenting gifted kids, girls in STEM and the Maker Movement. [Read More...]
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