Ukrainian Easter Eggs

The week before our April Easter vacation was a good time to incorporate the country of Ukraine because they are known for their beautiful traditional Easter Egg painting. We watched parts of the Reading Rainbow episode involving the Ukrainian folk tale Rechenka's Eggs. It was really neat to see the author Patricia Polacco herself talking about her Ukrainian history and painting eggs as she spoke. (Watching Reading Rainbow also made me feel very nostalgic for my childhood) We created our own elaborately painted eggs on watercolor paper using paint over a crayon-resist.