Eggs Decorated with Embroidery Floss

A basket of striped embroidery floss eggs displayed.

 

 

 

        I used a very tacky white glue and embroidery floss to wrap these Styrofoam eggs for Easter. You can use as many colors as you like. I twisted a variegated, monochromatic colored floss on top of my Styrofoam eggs in order to get them to look like this.
      Above, as you can see, I've also glued onto this Styrofoam egg, pom-poms. Use the eraser end of a pencil to press a slight indention into the foam egg where you wish to position a pom-pom. Then fill this indention with white, tacky glue and firmly press the pom-pom into it. It will take approximately 24 hours for the pom-poms to dry onto the egg. After these have dried, twist embroidery floss around each pom-pom on the egg until it looks the way you like it.

• A yarn painting of a butterfly made with similar materials used in making these examples of Easter eggs found here.
• Yarn wrapped star for our family Christmas tree.
• Yarn used to decorate hands and a dove here 
  

Cardboard eggs made with ribbon.

       You may also have left over ribbons or yarn in your craft stash that could be used to decorate flat cardboard eggs like those shown on the left. 

       First, cut out the shape of an egg from a folded piece of paper to make an Easter egg with two identical sides. Then trace around that paper pattern on top of cardboard to make a durable template. 

       Reproduce multiple, flat cardboard egg shapes by tracing around the template on top of an old recycled box. Cut the eggs out and cover them with white typing paper and glue so that the ribbons you use will provide a sharp and colorful contrast against the decoupaged surfaces. Glue the ribbons on using the same white school glue. Let the ribbons dry completely before trimming them off around the cardboard egg shapes. You can make striped eggs or even plaid versions using all kinds of ribbon or yarn. Glue a ribbon at the top of each cardboard egg in order to hang these from an egg tree.