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Craft Corner: Duck® Tape Egg Picture Frame

🐰 Cute Craft for Easter

By Kyrie Collins, Highlands Ranch-Parker-Castle Rock-Lone Tree Publisher March 24, 2021

One of the reasons we include simple crafts in our weekly e-newsletter is that I am not really a crafty mom. I don't want boxes and buckets full of pompoms, glitter glue, and googly eyes (OK, I love googly eyes, so those can stay). I need simple activities that my kids can do with only a little help and guidance from me.

The newest thing we've discovered — and LOVE — are duct tape crafts. If you haven't noticed, duct tape now comes in all kinds of crazy colors and patterns. I don't think we'll ever buy plain duct tape again!

The craft we made at our Duck® brand duct tape party last weekend was an Easter Egg Picture Frame! Both boys and girls from ages 3 to 11 were able to participate in this craft and every single one of them seemed to have a ball!

What You Need:

  • Blank paper
  • Pen or marker
  • Duck® brand duct tape rolls and sheets in the colors and patterns of your choice
  • Scissors
  • Markers and stickers (optional)
  • A picture of your kids (3x5 school pictures are perfect)

What You Do:

1. Draw a large egg shape on a piece of blank paper. Or if drawing an egg is too challenging for you, as it was for me, you can print one out using a large egg template.

2. Lay strips of duct tape across the back of the paper(so you can still see the egg shape on the other side) till  it covers the entire sheet.

3. Cut out your egg. You now have your background.

4. Draw a slightly smaller egg on the back of one of your duct tape sheets, or print the template at 85% and use the template to draw an egg on the back of the duct tape sheet. (We always draw on the back of things that we're going to cut out so we don't have ink or marker lines on the front of our project.)

5. Cut out and decorate your smaller egg, concentrating on the edges. To decorate, you can use markers, stickers, or other rolls and sheets of duct tape. Some of the duct tape sheets have a texture closer to paper than to duct tape and we found our scrapbooking scissors worked great on those. See the fun wavy lines?

(When my first son was born, I bought a scrapbooking kit full of scissors and other things. I had grand plans for creating keepsakes of his childhood. I have made precisely ZERO scrapbooks, but my kids love the scissors!)

6. Pull the backing off your smaller egg after you are done decorating and adhere it to the larger egg.

7. Cut a hole in the center of your egg slightly smaller than your picture. Slightly fold the egg in half and just make a snip right in the center to get it started. It will make it easier to cut out the rest. You can draw a shape on the back of your egg if you want or just freehand it.

8. Adhere the picture to the back using some duct tape scraps.

9. Proudly display it for all to see!