As I mentioned in a couple of my previous posts, we do a lot of drawing and crafting with my kids. It was only a matter of time before we went into the “folding surprises” wagon! It all started when my daughter brought this folding surprise fish from school.
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We loved the idea so much that we went on to create our own baby animal, cracking eggs, folding surprises. (God, that was long!) Here I will be showing how you can create your own baby dino cracking egg. You can skip the drawing part and download our ready-to-go color templates, at the end of this post.
Start off with a plain piece of paper. Size doesn’t matter. Fold it twice, to create an ”overlapping” area. Hope it makes sense. If it doesn’t, scroll down to watch the video tutorial.
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Then, while the paper is folded, draw an egg. It should look like the image above. Unfold the paper.
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On the previously overlapping area, we will draw our baby animal and the cracked egg.
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Mine looks something like this. And basically this is all! Color your egg and your dino egg folding surprise is ready!
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Optionally you can cut along the outline so that you have a ”real” egg. (or as real as it can get!) Or you can draw on the rest of the paper, like my little girl did.
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So, have fun creating your own baby animals folding surprises. Alternatively, you can download our ready-to-go templates below. There’s a chick, a baby snake and a baby dino for you. Happy coloring!
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