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

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...