Blue Decorative Egg

Create a miniature Blue with your little one. Begin with an egg, then use felt and construction paper to embellish.

Watch Blue's Clues every day on Nick Jr.

Materials

• 1 egg carton
• Pale and medium-blue felt
• White construction paper
• 1 hard-boiled egg
• Pale blue, medium-blue, and white acrylic paint
• Blue Egg Template
• Craft glue
• Fine-point black marker
• Scissors

Directions

1. Before You Begin

   To make the stand for your egg, cut a cardboard egg carton into individual cells, turn each cell upside down, and cut an opening in the top just big enough to secure the base of the egg.

2. Step 1

   Paint the egg pale blue. Let it dry.

3. Step 2

   Using the Blue Egg Template as a guide, cut ears from the pale blue felt. Cut medium-blue dots of felt and glue them in the center of ears.

4. Step 3

   Glue the ears on Blue's head.

5. Step 4

   Cut more medium-blue felt dots and glue them on Bob's face.

6. Step 5

   Cut oval-shaped eyes from the construction paper, color the eyes with the black marker, and glue them on the egg.

7. Step 6

   Using the medium-blue paint, paint on Blue's nose. Highlight with white paint.

8. Step 7

   Paint the egg stand pale blue.

9. Step 8

   Cut out a pale blue felt paw shape and five medium-blue felt dots.

10. Step 9

    Glue the dots on the felt paw shape.

11. Step 10

    Glue Blue's paw print on an egg cell.