This year, I've been trying to decorate our front stair railing for the holidays. On Valentine's Day we had hearts, for St. Patrick's Day we had clovers and for Easter I decided to make it a little more challenging. Instead of cutting out paper and making a garland I paper mached Easter Eggs!

I did that first step myself with water balloons. It was just going to be too messy to have the kids help and I knew they would take days to dry since they would have the "glue" extra thick. After I did that I left the eggs to hang and dry from our kitchen light.

A day later I hung them from a ladder in the garage and quickly spray painted them white so there would be a base color for our eggs instead of newsprint. I don't have a picture of them being painted, nor are they painted very well, because spray painting in the garage with two kids and a dog is pretty dangerous work! But they turned out OK.

Max decided to paint his egg.

Rory decided she wanted puppies on hers so I did some magazine cutouts for her to glue on.

I tried to use up some scrap tissue paper that we had on hand. The kids and I left our projects to dry on the table for a couple hours.

Daddy worked on his after work (you know, put a whole bunch of effort into it) and voila, our Easter decorations this year!

I know, a bit on the mediocre side but it's something!