Eggs decorated with both real and fake candy

What to do with old decorator cake candies?

      I decorated this large Easter Egg with the candy sprinkles people normally use on holiday cookies. I worked on a styrofoam egg with white school glue. Because the colors in the candy sprinkles are made with food dyes, a slow drying glue or a cold room temperature may react with the delicate sprinkles to create a mushy mess. It is very important to use fast drying glue and to set the egg out to dry in front of a warm vent.

      I then sealed the surface of this Easter egg with Mod Podge in order to prevent the surface from crumbling. This egg will probably only last a few years at best, but I had fun working with different materials.

       The design reminds me of Van Gogh's "Starry Night." If I were to craft an egg similar to this one again, I would use seed beads instead and save the candy for an Easter desert.

Perfect looking chocolate eggs that will never melt.

Faux Chocolate Eggs

Perfect for The Egg Tree

 

       These flat cardboard eggs decorated with chocolate treats are in fact quite artificial! The chocolates look just like the real thing because these are made with real chocolate candy molds, however, the faux candy is molded with Sculpey oven-bake clay instead of butter, cream and cocoa.
       After unmolding the clay, bake it as directed on the package. Let it cool and then paint a thick coating of chocolate brown acrylic paint on the top half only. Glue the flat side of the faux candy to paper covered cardboard eggs and wait for everything to dry before doing the next steps.
       Then layer Mod Podge on top of the brown paint before painting on the pastel detailing. After applying several coats of the paint to the raised areas, brush on one last coating of Mod Podge. The chocolate will look so real that a little child may try to eat it! So keep these decorations up high on the egg tree limbs where they cannot be plucked from the branches by unsuspecting toddlers!

• See my vintage candy tins used to gift jelly beans inside of  Easter baskets over several years.
• Young children may assemble a "Noah's Ark" picture and include animal crackers (cookies) to complete their pictures
• These edible bean and seed eggs may be tossed outside to feed the birds after Easter. Just make sure to use peanut butter for glue and a plastic container for the egg underneath...