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Fun Scrape Painting for Easter
Have you seen all those videos of people doing squeegee or scrape painting? This is a fun scrape painting idea for kids to do this Easter. When finished, these painted eggs can be used to decorate for the holiday!
You will need ...
- Acrylic Paints
- White Canvas
- Removable Contact Paper
- Scissors
- Sharpie
- Large Egg-Shaped Template
- Spatula or something with a straight edge that you can use to scrape the paint
Step One
Cut out the egg shape you will use. Make sure it fits on your canvas and is not too large or too small.
Step Two
Measure out a piece of contact paper that is just slightly larger than your canvas. I would lay the canvas on the contact paper and mark about 1 inch around all sides, then cut.
Step Three
Place the egg template in the center of the contact paper. If it helps, you can secure it with a tiny piece of tape so it doesn't shift when tracing. Then, trace the outline of the egg using the Sharpie.
Step Four
Carefully cut out the egg shape as shown in the picture. You must fold the contact paper and snip a bit in the center to insert your scissors and cut from the center. Do not cut into it from the edge. The contact paper surrounding the egg shape must remain in tact or else paint may seep through later on.
Step Five
Next, slowly peel back the paper from the top edge of the contact paper. It will be difficult as the hole in the center will prevent it from peeling easily. Just take your time and work slowly. Then, lay the contact paper sticky side down onto the canvas. Be sure to notice whether the egg is in the center of the canvas. There is no need to curl the edges of the contact paper around the edge of the canvas. Once laid down, inspect the egg edges and adjust if necessary to make sure there are no gaps between the contact paper and the canvas. If there are, paint will seep through and distort the egg shape.
Step Six
Now comes the fun part. Place paint dots throughout the exposed area of the canvas. Be sure to completely fill the top area so that you will have the top edge of the egg shape. Looking back, I would suggest to place the dots on the contact paper just above the top of the egg shape. Do not put too many dots as the colors will become very muddled. Also, larger paint dots will produced a more blurred painting. Too small dots will not achieve the scrape effect.
Step Seven
Finally, using your chosen scraping tool, begin by placing the straight edge at the top of the canvas just above where the paint dots begin. Hold it at about a 45 degree angle with the top edge tilted towards you. In one smooth motion, scrape the paint down the canvas until you reach the bottom edge. (This is why it is important to have the overlap of contact paper so that the paint does not get on the bottom edge of the canvas). The pressure of the scraper should be just enough to move the paint, but not too hard that it scrapes the paint off.
Step Eight
When removing the contact paper, begin at the top and hold the top right corner in one hand and the top left corner in the other hand. In one motion, carefully peel up and towards you (in the same motion that you scraped the paint). Be sure to have a tray or towel to catch the extra paint so it doesn’t end up in your lap.
Once the paint dries, hang up these beautifully artistic eggs as decorations for Easter! Enjoy!
NOTE:
This egg was done with large dots of paint, and it was scraped twice. This created the blurred effect. It also produced a top edge that has paint all over.
This egg was done with smaller dots of color. This one was also scraped twice from the middle to the bottom. As a result, the bottom half is more blurred than the top.