How To Embellish Flocked Easter Eggs

       Flocked Easter eggs are not always available for crafting with in local hobby supply. But when these are plentiful they make for a marvelous vintage display. These are light weight and are perfect for hanging on an easter tree tool. Below are several ways you can decorate them with trim, inside or out.

These flocked eggs have holes cut out to 
display a vignette inside.

Supply List:

• flocked plastic eggs
• soft fine Easter grass
• miniature Easter novelties
• lace, ribbon, rick-rack and bead trims
• transparent glitter 
• tacky white glue
• hot glue gun and hot glue

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Purchase flocked egg blanks for a hobby store or dollar store outlet.
2. Draw the oval shaped window with a soft number two pencil and trace around a tiny stencil directly on top of the flocked egg.
3. Cut away the oval shaped window by poking open the flocked egg with a tiny pair of sharp nail scissors. Cut away all of the pencil markings as these will not be easy to remove with an eraser. 
4. Layer a thick amount of tacky glue on the inside of the egg with your finger tip. 
5. Sprinkle in a generous amount of transparent glitter. 
6. Tap the egg on a table surface to evenly disperse the glitter on the inside of the egg. Do this over a clean sheet of paper to collect all of the unused glitter and return it to the bottle it came from for future crafts. Let the glitter harden.
7. Next, glue inside of the egg opening some soft Easter grass. I used the cotton-like version of grass for this egg vignette. 
8. Then glue in the Easter novelty: a bunny figurine, a basket of eggs etc...
9. Trim the outside edges of the window with tacky glue and rick-rack. 
10. Glue on a ribbon, some lace and a pearl bead here and there.
11. Display your vintage eggs in an egg tree or basket.

After decorating the egg on the inside, I glued rick-rack, laces and bows to the outer shell

 and edges to cover flaws and to add interest to the surfaces of my Easter eggs. I used 

hot glue for this particular project.

Old-fashioned  flocked Easter eggs are covered with
rickrack and bright, bold laces. Use tacky white glue
 to adhere the bits of lace and trim.

How to make faux mosiac eggs using abalone shell tiles . . .

These egg when finished are quite heavy; they
should be displayed in baskets or in vignettes,
not on egg trees.

        Traditional mosaic eggs made from plastic manufactured eggs, grout, and tiny mosaic Mother of Pearl pieces from Michael's. These crushed tiles have been sold at Michael's for over 10-12 years and come in many colors depending upon the year. 

Supply List:

• large plastic egg forms for the local hobby store or dollar store
• crushed abalone shell tile
• wood glue or tacky white glue or hot glue if you prefer
• tile grout, white
• Mod Podge

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. When adhering the tiles to the egg shell rough up the surface of the egg with sandpaper and then glue on the tiles using a strong bonding glue. I believe that I used wood glue for these eggs. 
2. After the crushed shell has dried, smear on a tile grout and then use a soft damp sponge to wash away excess grout.
3. Let the grout harden overnight. Crafters may also use wooden eggs to replace the plastic ones if they wish.
4. Seal the grout with a thin layer of Mod Podge or something like it.

How to craft mosaic Easter eggs using egg shells?

Photo of the egg membrane being separated 

from the shell.

        First you will need to collect egg shells for this craft and the number of those egg shells will depend upon your love of the craft. I collected only enough to demonstrate the process. In order to keep your kitchen clean and bacteria at a minimum, soak the left over shells in a vinegar solution. One cup of boiling water, plus two tablespoons of any type of vinegar will suffice for a gentle soak. This will also help loosen the membrane from the inner shell. The membrane should be removed for several reasons, the first being that it will help keep the egg shells from developing an unfortunate odor and the second being that the shells will adhere better when glued to another shell's surface. Above is a photo of the membrane being separated from the shell.

        After the shells have been dried, break them up and soak them in dying solutions. I chose to do this with food coloring. This is the traditional recipe which includes a few drops of food coloring combined together with the ratio of vinegar and water that I have mentioned above.

Broken egg shells soaking in the vinegar solution.

        After draining and drying the shells on a paper towel, you may then glue these to either hard boiled eggs or eggs that have been hollowed out and cleaned in advance. I used white school glue for this process and then covered the surface of my sample eggs with Mod Podge. You could also paint a layer of clear nail polish over the eggs if you have no other alternatives on hand.

How the mosaic process turns out after gluing the mosiac
egg shell pieces directly onto whole eggs. These eggs are
hollowed out, but you could use edible hard boiled eggs 
for this technique as well.

 Easter by Marjorie Goldwasser, (8 yrs. old)
The grass is turning oh, so green.
Everywhere new buds are seen.
The Easter bunny is on his way,
To bring us eggs on Easter day.

Paint and Design a Giant Egg With Watercolors

         This giant, bright colored Easter egg was painted using a soft camel hair brush dipped in watercolor paint. First the student used a black marker to draw her whimsical butterfly, fish and flowers. Then she painted in her picture with bright, festive colors. I have discovered that very young students produce marvelous watercolor paintings but grow apprehensive about the resulting finished product as they age. This is because the younger an art student is, the less inhibited they are about "how" their artwork looks. Their inhibitions are the unfortunate result of growing old, I'm afraid...

watercolor painted egg

Supply List:

• giant sheet of white construction paper
• watercolor set
• a soft camel hair brush among several other sizes to try
• one black permanent ink marker
• pictures of fish, birds and flowers to work from

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Cut white butcher paper or construction paper into large egg shapes. The teacher may wish to do this step in advance or not depending upon the age of the students.
2. Give the student black permanent ink markers to draw with. You may want to cover their tables with newsprint for this step and also give them aprons. Some young students get a little enthusiastic about using these markers where they shouldn't so keep an eye on the process to avoid disasters!
3. Teachers can hand pictures of what students can draw on their eggs around the room too. Things like insects, birds, symbols of Easter etc...
4. After drawing with permanent pens, collect these.
5. Now give each student a watercolor set and a small jar of water plus several kinds of paint brushes to fill in all of the white areas.

Sponge Paint a Giant Easter Egg!

This egg painted with sponges.

     This giant Easter Egg sponge painting requires young students to use unconventional tools in the act of painting. Sponges are easy for little hands to manipulate and these hold all kinds of sticky, messy paints made from inexpensive mixtures that kindergarten teachers can quickly shake together without investing large sums of cash in a art project. Small children do not generally produce art that will be kept forever by anyone other than their parents so, it is important to use materials that may be expendable but also fun to work with. The key to developing student performance in art is repetition and inexpensive materials ensure that the activity is repeated frequently.

Supply List:

• one large sheet of pastel colored construction paper
• tempera paints mixed in pastel colors 
• simple sponges cut into geometric shapes
• cover tables with paper wherever this activity takes place
• give young students aprons to where
• each student should have at least several trays of paint to dip sponges in while they work

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Precut large egg shapes from pastel shades of construction paper.
2. Mix tempera paints for students in advance
3. Set up large tables for young ones to work at. Cover the surfaces with newsprint; perhaps, even the floors. Put paint trays within reach of painting activity.
4. Children my dip sponges into the paints and print the shapes on their paper Easter eggs. 
5. Encourage them to fill the areas, make patterns, and try different paint colors!

This video, from Nuttin' but preschool, demonstrates an excellent step-by-step process for making homemade "tempera" paints. However, if you are an artist, you know that actual tempera paints used by professionals include an egg binder. So here is an old recipe for high school students.

Crayon Resist Egg Painting

      This giant Easter Egg was crafted using a popular wax resist method. Young students learn to color with firm pressure onto drawing paper before painting a watery solution of colored paint over the surface of their wax colors. The paint will then leave traces of painted paper wherever the crayons have not been applied. The use of this method is very popular in grade school because it shows students how they can use several art materials in one lesson and also develops their eye-hand coordination.

Supply List:

• one large sheet of white construction paper
• bold crayon colors
• a water color tray
• scissors to cut out the egg with

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. On a large sheet of white construction paper, scribble with brilliant colored crayons. Encourage young students to press firmly on the paper as they work. 
2. Once the paper has been worked on thoroughly, show them how to dip a brush into darker versions of those same crayon colors. Wash the surfaces with watercolor and see their crayon scribbles turn into gems!
3. Cut out the nicest areas into large Easter egg shapes.

Craft An Empty Tomb Easter Egg

The finished empty tomb Easter egg, front and side.

    I crafted this empty tomb Easter egg with air dry clay, a half shaped, Styrofoam egg and paint.      The egg form also has a hollow interior and I will post a photo of what these look like just as soon as I can take a picture. 
      For those of you who may be a bit intimidated by shaping your own stones from clay, there are shallow molds for sale in craft and hobby shops for the very purpose of crafting stone walls. The results are so nice that the purchase of one of these is an excellent investment. 

      After pressing the air dry clay into a mold, (shown below) simply adhere the printed clay to the Styrofoam egg with tacky white glue. You will then need to continue working while your clay is still wet. Use a toothpick or a fork and work the clay surface a bit by pushing deeper crevices between the stones to create a more three-dimensional stone wall surface.      I let my stone tomb egg dry over night then I painted it's interior with black acrylic paint. Next, I painted the exterior stones with shades of grey and pale browns. Being satisfied with my final results, I then pasted a cross shaped sticker to the interior of the egg shaped tomb and gave my entire Easter egg a coat of acrylic varnish.

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How To Decoupage a Picture On To An Easter Egg

Here is an obvious question. "How do you decoupage a picture
or a scene onto an egg?" Obvious question, rarely answered.
Above you see a sweet example of this from a manufacturer
of Easter novelty.

Supply List:

• smallish dinner napkins in a pattern you would like to see on your Easter egg.
• egg (can be plastic or real)
• Mod Podge
• hot glue gun and hot glue to attach a ribbon on top of the egg

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Gently separate the layers of your dinner napkin. You will only be working with the printed one on top.
2. Measure the length of your egg and cut rectangular strip from the napkin or tissue paper to fit neatly around it. 
3. Now you will need to cut at regular intervals, slashes into your design. Notice how I do NOT cut all the way through the rectangle. (pictured below) I leave about an inch uncut. This uncut central part of the rectangle is the continuous, uninterrupted part of the design that wraps around the mid section of the egg. The larger your egg the wider this section will be. 
4. After cutting this napkin thus, apply Mod Podge to the surface of your egg and carefully paste down the napkin, starting first with the middle part of the design. The fringed parts of the napkin will overlap some but the design should be preserved for the most part. 
5. After cutting and gluing this first piece of the napkin, I then cut out parts of the design that I thought the most attractive from left over napkins and pasted these on the top and bottom parts of my egg where the design did not cover. This is because I used very large eggs for this project and my napkins were quite small and the wider, bottom half of my egg needed additional decoupage to cover it completely. 
6. In order for your eggs to look professional, you need to use very thin tissues for this project. This insures that the design will appear uninterrupted and hand painted. 
7. Also, I was very particular about the colors of eggs that I used for the design. Had I used dark blue or purple plastic eggs, this design would not be as attractive. The napkin is very thin and the colors will show through the glue and tissue, so be selective. The factory made egg above was yellow. The one below that I covered was pink.
8. After the egg has dried completely give it a final coat of Mod Podge.
9. Hot glue an attractive ribbon to the top of the egg if you wish to hang it.

See finished eggs with fancy pink dinner napkin decoupaged
on the plastic surfaces. You can use the same process on 
real eggs too!

Left, peal off the solid layers of napkin on the bottom; you won't need to include them in the 
process. Center, the napkin cut with fringe across the top and bottom. Right, different eggs, same
dinner napkin cut apart to give a alternative look.

See different applications of the same napkin design.

Decoupage Easter Eggs:

• Read more about this process here

Free Vintage Patterns for Easter Eggs

Painting patterns from left to right in order: An Old-Fashioned Calico Egg,
A Design Taken From Bright Ribbons, Czechoslovakia flowers in bright colors,
A row of yellow ducks on a batik egg and flowers/bow-knots from an old silk.

      Above are very old illustrated patterns for painting eggs, below are vintage patterns for sewing eggs and carrots. The egg templates include five sizes. 

       Select the size you prefer and then make a cardboard template by tracing around the size selected. 

       Cut four copies from fabric to sew together for one egg. A 1/4 seam allowance is included with the template. 

       I suggest sewing the eggs by hand instead of on the machine because the seams are so very narrow.

       After leaving an opening of one and a half inch, turn the egg right sides out and stuff tightly. Close the opening with an invisible stitch and then apply trims and fancy embroidery.

5 egg sizes. See two sizes made up in bumble bee flannel fabric at colorthebible.blogspot.com.

 

       To make fabric carrots, select the size, cut it out and trace around for the cardboard template. Cut just one triangle from orange fabric. Fold in half, sew down the side and turn right side out. Stuff with cotton filling up to the top of the carrot. 

       Sew a straight stitch around the top opening to gather it shut. Then attach a green ruffled ribbon or ruffled felt around the top gathered edges to cover and mimic the greens on top. You could also attach green lace alternatively for a folksy looking carrot.

 

See my vintage veggies in red-orange velvet with tassel tops;
 these are made with the simple pattern below.

3 carrot sizes

Easter Eggs That Imitate Wedgwood Blue Earthenware

Typical wedgwood blue
plate with white decor

      I have always been in love with Wedgwood blue earthenware. It is very expensive, however, so it is not likely that I will ever acquire much of it. I did find some "Wedgewood" look-alikes  in a hobby shop many years ago and adhered these medallions to Styrofoam eggs. Then, I covered the back half of my eggs with blue paint, glitter and some vintage lace. I strung my blue, "Wedgwood"eggs on glass bead hangers. These eggs are my favorites and I hang them on one of my Easter egg trees every year.
      In 1765, Wedgwood created a new earthenware form which impressed the then British Queen consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz who gave permission to call it "Queen's Ware"; this new form sold extremely well across Europe. The following year Wedgwood bought Etruria, a large Staffordshire estate, as both home and factory site. Wedgwood developed a number of further industrial innovations for his company, notably a way of measuring kiln temperatures accurately and new ware types Black Basalt and Jasper Ware. Wedgwood's most famous ware is jasperware. It was created to look like ancient cameo glass. It was inspired by the Portland Vase, a Roman vessel which is now a museum piece.. (The first jasperware colour was Portland Blue, an innovation that required experiments with more than 3,000 samples). In recognition of the importance of his pyrometric beads (pyrometer), Josiah Wedgwood was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1783. Today, the Wedgwood Prestige collection sells replicas of some of the original designs as well as modern neo-classical style jasperware. Read more . . .

Easter eggs featuring Wedgewood look-alike medallions. Push the medallions gently
 into the foam egg before gluing these in place with a tacky white glue.

My family has visited here during the summer months.

This makes for a relaxed, family friendly trip.

Craft a Humpty-Dumpty Easter Egg

The Humpty egg from different view points.

       This Humpty-Dumpty Easter egg is much easier to make than he looks. I used a small face mold and a bit of Sculpey clay to make his face. Although, some of you who do not like to paint, could use a bit of flesh colored polymer clay instead. 

       Humpty-Dumpty named after a famous nursery rhyme was actually a relatively popular character to craft during the mid to later half of the 20th century during Easter and also for nurseries. I've included more examples of this funny egg fellow below.

Supply List:

• Sculpey or air-dry clay
• acrylic paints
• white scrap paper for collar
• hot glue and hot glue gun
• wood glue
• Mod Podge
• wooden egg
• press mold of an old man's face

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. After un-molding the clay mask, I then pressed it onto a wooden egg with a generous amount of wood glue sandwiched between the clay and wooden surface. 
2. Then I baked the entire egg in an oven for only a few minutes at recommended temp. on the package. If I had to make the Humpty egg again, I would probably opt for air dry clay. 
3. I then let the egg cool. 
4. Paint the head in flesh colored paint and the lower portion of the egg in blue to suggest his shirt.
5. Hot glue on a simple white collar and a bow tie.

Above are examples of face molds from my vast collection.

Humpty Dumpty's Easter Surprise by Dick Clarke

Stuffing Easter Eggs

      I purchased these dessert shop Easter eggs shaped like ice cream cones, cupcakes and petit fours. I loved the unique shapes. However, as you can see, appearances are all that I paid for; I will need to stuff them a bit more than I thought.

      I also purchased a pack of Squinkies to stuff into the little people's Easter eggs, just for fun. Extra candy, a few toys, coins and printed scriptures will make up the contents of these eggs for my family's Easter egg hunt this year. Why not swipe of few of the Easter scriptures below and print them out for your little ones?

A hatching chick picture

      Students will need crayons or magic markers to color their eggs and chick for this picture project. They will also need scissors, white school glue, a print of the Easter chick template below and one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 inch construction paper for their background.

This project also calls for the use of brass, paper fasteners.

      Some students may insist upon the construction paper being green or light blue because their thinking in art is more concrete or literal than their peers. Or, it may be that all of your students will choose these two colors depending upon their perspective. Do not insist, however, that students use green for grass or blue for the sky, if they choose not to. Children differ greatly when it comes to the interpretation of "how" art should look. Some students are more abstract in their thinking than others and there is certainly nothing wrong with this.

      The idea of  "Easter grass" is also loosely interpreted by manufacturers of the product. All types of Easter grass, be it plastic or shredded paper, is sold in the market place, in every color imaginable and you may wish to supply this for added dimension in your picture; in the pictured example, mine  is drawn.

      Eggs are also painted with an endless variety of colors, designs, and pictures. Some of your public school children may even include religious imagery on their eggs.

      Do not dictate or prescribe their choices. Remember that freedom of speech is only limited for teachers in public schools because they are paid by so many people, from all walks of life, who have many different beliefs. These limitations attributed to teachers are not the same, however, for the children that they teach. Therefore, it is neurotic to overreact to a student's choices concerning how they desire to represent the Easter holidays. If some of your school children include religious imagery for this project, you needn't make such a fuss. They have a right to their cultural ethnicity, opinions and creative endeavors. If you expect differences, then you will not need to overreact to unusual choices. I have left the eggs blank so that the children constructing and coloring the project may choose to decorate their own eggs as they wish.
      The black dot on the template is where you will need to poke a hole and insert a brass, paper fastener. Make sure that, when your students are ready to paste their eggs to the background sheet of paper, they do not paste above the small black line noted on the template. The upper part of the egg needs to be left unpasted in order to accommodate for the spinning chick!

       Students will need to print the above template out, cut and transfer the design onto heavy cardboard. By these means, students will learn about the making of templates and how basic patterns are designed. Teachers may choose to group students at tables so that one set of templates may be made and shared between three or four students. I never hesitate to add this step into an art project because students learn so much information about "how" to process through the designing of things. However, I would eliminate the step altogether under some conditions.  

Easter hatching chic template.

Teacher's sample of the hatching chic Easter egg craft.

       In this teacher's sample I should note that the egg design on the right is original to it's former publication. Easter egg crafts from 100 years ago are far more elaborate graphically speaking than they appear today. This is the result, I believe, of artists immediate association/familiarity with Ukrainian immigrants at that time. Today, most folks immigrating from that area of the world to the United States are Muslim. Wouldn't it be interesting to do research on graphic history with your kids? Perhaps that should be my next big art history lesson?

The Easter Egg And The Easter Hare...

Bunnies should use caution when
prepping their eggs.

      The Easter egg and that ubiquitous little Easter hare that defies all the natural laws governing mammals are well known to childish fancy. What child has not discovered on Easter morning a whole basket of beautiful pasque eggs and just missed the sight of the little Easter hare that laid them? He is almost as familiar a household personage as Santa Claus. Long hours have the children watched in the woods for him, only to go home and find they have just missed his visit there, and there are those beautiful eggs he left behind, in pink, pale blue, yellow and all the colors of the rainbow, some of them parti-colored, some painted with roses and some tied with ribbons. Of late years this enterprising little animal has gone far as to leave china eggs filled with bonbons, and that he leaves them there is no more doubt than that Santa Claus comes down the chimney on Christmas Eve, and who is so disloyal as to doubt that?

      There are various ways of preparing Easter eggs that give so much delight to little ones. The most elaborately decorated eggs should be emptied and washed of their contents before they are prepared. This is the most economical as well as the most satisfactory way to do: Pierce a small hole through each end, blow out the contents, wash the shells and leave them for several days to dry. Some eggs shells may be gilded, some silvered and some painted in oils. Simple gifts such as are suitable at Easter time may be conceded under these eggs.

      Plain boiled eggs, such as are served on the Easter breakfast table, may be easily dyed with vegetable dyes, which can be procured at caterers or dealers in confectioner’s supplies. It is not in good taste to make these eggs eaten at the breakfast table especially elaborate. The elaborate eggs are those which are supposed to be found incidentally after breakfast, on Easter morning, and are for the amusement of small children. A dish of pale green, white and yellow eggs at one end of the table or robin’s egg blue and pale yellow and white at the other end gives the breakfast table a festive appearance. It is easy enough to prepare a few eggs in each of these colors to obtain this effect. It is a little difficult to get a good green in eggs. Owning to the quantity of lime in the shells all eggs do not take this natural green color as some others will, and it is better to color eggs a simply as possible than to use any powerful dyes when eating them later.

      It is possible to decorate more ornamental eggs of which the contents have been blown out. Eggs may be prepared weeks before Easter and may be hidden away until the eventful morning. These simple eggshells when decorated in natural colors using roses or forget-me-nots and each strung on a fancy ribbon will last a long time, if taken care of.

      The eggs of nearly all ordinary birds, from the gigantic ostrich, whose shell is firm enough to be set in silver, to the smallest bantam, where at one time represented in many shops at Easter time. These were decorated, to hold various kinds of candies or for ornamental purposes. You will net to be diligent to find decorative eggs like these in antique shops or vintage resale in time for Easter if you live in the United States, for it is nearly impossible to find these mouth-blown, decorated eggs for sale. When my children were young, there was a chocolate shop down the street that sold these but that was highly unusual.

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"The Fruit of The Spirit" Easter Egg

        In order to make this Easter egg, you will need to purchase a small bag of alphabet pasta. DaVinci brand makes an alphabet pasta that is ideal and when you have finished the Easter craft, you can save the left overs for homemade tomato soup!
       I first cover my large, plastic egg with white glue and newsprint and set it aside on wax paper to dry over night. Then I pasted the three dimensional, paper flowers by Martha Stewart onto my egg. After letting the paper flowers dry, I then glued the pasta to spell out the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, forbearance (patience), kindness, goodness, faithfulness (loyalty), gentleness and self control.
      After the glue used to paste the pasta on the egg dried, I dipped my finger into a little black, acrylic paint and dabbed the alphabet letters with a bit of color. This enhanced the lettering so that it could be seen better. After the paint dried I used Mod Podge to seal the surface of the egg completely.
 

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." Galatians 5:22-23 - New International Version (NIV)

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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.

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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.

Cover Styrofoam Eggs and Cardboard Versions with Seeds and Beans

Pick up a mixed 15 bean soup bag at the grocery store and you needn't purchase so mush for 
variety in this craft...

      You can cover Styrofoam eggs with seeds and beans in an endless variety of patterns. The large Styrofoam egg pictured has a cross at one end and a yellow flower at it's other end. 

      It is important to use Styrofoam eggs for this craft so that you will be able to lightly press the seeds into the egg form as you glue these down.  This process will create a surface across the egg that is even and the seeds/beans will be firmly glued in place. Allow for a couple of days to complete your decorated egg. You will need to wait for sections of the egg to dry before completing others. Mod Podge the end product.

        If you would prefer to put bean eggs out after Easter for the birds, craft designs using a plastic eggs and use peanut butter for the glue instead. The birds will prefer you to decorate with seeds instead of the beans for sure!

 

The same egg decorating can be switched to cardboard shaped eggs for younger students.

Four Easter egg patterns in one!

Jewel Encrusted Easter Eggs

Left, plastic gems used for this easy craft. Right the finished result in 3D.

      I encrusted these jeweled Easter eggs with plastic gems that I purchased from a hobby store. Before adhering the "gems" to the plastic eggs with a tacky white glue, I roughed up the egg's surfaces with sandpaper. It is important to remember to match the color of plastic egg with the same color as the plastic gem. This will make the final crafted egg look like it is professionally made.

Fake or faux gems in the center of each puffy cross sticker really dress up this Easter craft!

       To make the ''Sparkly Cross'' cardboard eggs above you will need to cut out several cardboard egg shaped pieces. Use white school glue to apply the glittery fabric on first, then adhere the cross stickers with a tacky craft glue. The stickers will not stay in place without extra adhesive otherwise. I found this particular set at a Dollar Store.

Easter Egg Coloring Pages: vintage eggs

I've drawn some vintage Easter eggs for little ones to color, enjoy.

Description of Coloring Page: coloring pages by Kathy Grimm, vintage decorated eggs, flowers, ribbons, stripes, Noah's arc, chick, patterns, crosses, stars, bees, butterflies, polka-dots

 

Don't forget to drag the png. or jpg into a Word Document and enlarge the image as much as possible before printing it folks. If you have a question about this Easter coloring page, just type into the comment box located directly below this post and I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can.

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