Bubble Wrap Painting Easter Art

I have a ridiculously large stash of bubble wrap left over from when we moved over a year ago.  Whenever possible, I try to think of different ways to use it up.  This week we did some bubble wrap painting.

I gave C and R bubble wrap, paint, large sheets of white construction paper, and paint brushes.  They began by painting the bubble wrap.

Then, they pressed the painted bubble wrap down onto the construction paper, repeating this until the paper was covered to their satisfaction.

R completed one (the colors she chose remind me of Mardi Gras):

C completed two works of art, one with stripes and one with purposeful egg shapes:

After the paint dried, the purposeful Easter egg picture was covered in clear contact paper to make a placemat. 

I cut out Easter egg shapes from the other two works of art.  R then decided she wanted a placemat, so she arranged her egg shapes on clear contact paper and we covered them with another piece of clear contact paper.

C still has some Easter egg shapes left that we will use for decorating or something else yet to be determined.

I really love the way the eggs came out.  I think we will try to use bubble wrap to decorate real eggs for Easter this year. 

We all enjoyed reading Here Comes T. Rex Cottontail by Lois G. Grambling.  When the Easter Bunny gets a cold, he asks T. Rex to deliver eggs for him on Easter morning.  T. Rex began preparing for the big day by practicing his hopping and he accidentally stumbled and fell on the Easter Bunny's basketful of eggs that had been colored for Easter.  T. Rex's friends search to find eggs and together they all color the eggs they manage to find.  The surprise comes after the eggs are all delivered, and I'll let you read the book to find out what happens!