These eggs can be used as a centerpiece on your Easter table or you can cut a hole in them and they can be used as an Easter basket. These are easy enough to make that it can be a family project.
If you are going to have your children help to make these eggs then I would suggest using quick drying glue instead of a glue gun when applying the decorations. It will just make it safer for the kids. What I love about these is that they are delicate and lacy but pretty sturdy when you go to store them. These can also be made from thrift store or yard sale finds on half empty spools of thread, just tie your ends together to make two toned eggs.
These can be made all different sizes by varying how much you blow up the balloons. So have fun and make a dozen. You can display them on your table in a small bowl if you make small ones. One large one filled with Spring silk flowers makes a wonderful display.
Time to complete: 1 hour plus dry time
Use some white paper or old sheet or table cloth to cover the work area, a old shower curtain would work well here also. I would try to avoid newspaper as the Stiffy or glue mixture can make newspaper ink bleed.
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We made these when we were kids, messy and fun.
We decorated a canning jar lid for it to sit on.
I've tried projects like this before, using yarn, but it won't stick to the balloon, it just slides off. I've made sure the yarn is saturated good also.
Do you have any tips for keeping the first layer from sliding off of the balloon?
RuthieJo
Yarn would be too heavy, too thick, you need to use the white crochet thread and wind it tightly.
Someone gave me one of these eggs many years ago (maybe 20 or more years). I love it! It is white and I decorated the opening with lace and put two butterflies and a couple of flowers on the top. I put grass inside and a couple of Easter bunnies and some flowers inside too. Everyone admires it and I have out every Easter. It is a cheap craft but a very pretty one.
This brings back memories. When these eggs first came out you made it with a sugar water solution. They were beautiful and sparkled when dry. The only problem we had was the following Easter when we took it out of the cardboard box, it seems it was a special treat for the mice.....lesson learned...either use the white glue solution or store in critter resistant container.
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