Decorating Eggs

Projects 5-12 were all about decorating eggs. Now this wasn't decorating eggs in the traditional sense. This was much messier, and crazier...but I think they came out cute. I am going to try this again around Easter, but get some bigger eggs.

Project List:
5- Covering an egg
6- Painted eggs
7- Paper Patterns
8- Rocking Eggs
9- Monster Eggs
10- Easter Bunny
11- Baby Eggs
12- Chick

So to get started, no matter which project you are making, you will need

Eggs, glue, tissue paper, and markers. Also, a large bowl to crack the eggs into.

Start by tapping the eggs lightly on the side of the bowl and cracking them open. Try to get a clean break. I, apparently, am really bad a cracking eggs cleanly, so it got a little tough in the next few steps. Since you don't need the egg whites or yolk, crack them into a bowl and you can make scrambled eggs later (or fried rice like we did!)

Once you have the egg out, rinse the egg shells and let them dry. Then CAREFULLY apply some glue to the cracked edges. Again, this was a hard task for me. So instead, I took a stripe of tissue paper, put some glue on it and wrapped it around the crack.

Then you can take more glue and fill in any cracks around the egg shell.

After the glue dries, comes the fun part! Rip up bits of tissue paper into small pieces. Then put glue on the egg and add the paper over top, until your entire egg is covered.

That is the extent of project 5, covering your egg with tissue. But did we stop there? No way....Here is our painted egg (6)- although we used markers for less mess. 

 

And our paper pattern (7). The book says to cut out shapes in the tissue paper and glue them on. Riely tried to make a bird, but in reality it is just wings on an egg. :)

 

 Next is our rocking egg (8). For this one, you put  a small rock or marble into the egg so that it rocks and rolls around.

Project 9 is a monster egg! The book suggests cutting horns out of paper and gluing them on, but Riely chose a more "jack-o-lantern" type monster.

Project 10 and 11 are to make a bunny and a baby bunny. But since I only had one size egg, we ended up with 2 same size bunnies. One which got in a fight with project 12, the chick egg, and therefore is not pictured.

 All in all, I think this was a fun project and a great way to re-purpose egg shells! Now, if only I were better at cracking them, I think it would have been a bit easier.

Have fun!