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Other Ways to Decorate
Use clear-drying, nontoxic, white glue to put things with interesting colors and textures on eggshells. Ask your parents what they have on hand that you can have. Lots of small bits of odds and ends can make nice decorated eggs. Look for:
Sewing stuff: Braid, ribbon, rickrack or cording; scraps of lace, netting, fabric, felt or fake fur; buttons.
To make some of the eggs in the photo, glue rows of braid, ribbon, rickrack or cording onto eggs with a clear-drying, nontoxic white glue. Use all one kind of trimming or mix and match different colors, sizes and types of trimmings to make a design. If you like, you can also add the kind of tiny cloth flowers that are often used to decorate nightgowns and other lingerie.
Desk stuff: Postage stamps; construction, tissue or crepe paper; notebook paper reinforcers or the holes of paper from a paper punch.
With postage stamps, you can feature any country of the world, famous people, landmarks, animals, plants and many other subjects. Or, you can pick a single color or two or three colors and use stamps in those colors to make a design-like a quilt pattern. If a stamp you use is too big to fit nicely on an egg, with a scissors, make a little cut where the stamp bulges and overlap the two edges you've cut.
Make flowers by cutting petal shapes and fringes out of crepe paper or tissue paper. Wrap the shapes around a pencil or a knitting needle to make them curl. Glue the petals or fringes onto the lower 1/3 of each dyed egg so the egg forms the middle of the flower. You can put each finished flower egg in a vase. Or put a whole bunch of flowers in a basket, bowl or egg carton. If you like, you can add "Easter grass", real or fake fern leaves or a gift-package butterfly, bumblebee or ladybug on a wire.
Household stuff: Drinking straws or clean broomstick straws; wooden picks; string and cotton balls.
Crafts stuff: Sequins or glitter; beads and yarn.
Your secret treasure stuff: Feathers and small seashells.
To make the fine feathered friends in the photo, use clear-drying, nontoxic, white glue to glue feathers on the eggs. You can make an egg look like a real bird by using cardinal red or canary yellow feathers or you can invent a new bird of your own by mixing colors. Put the feathers on the sides, back and front of each egg to make the wings, tail and breast feathers. Then, glue on a 1-inch pom-pom for each bird's head. To make a rounded beak, gently poke a 1/2-inch piece of pipe cleaner into the pom-pom. (If you need to, you can use glue to hold the beak.) For a pointed beak, cut a small triangle of black felt or construction paper, crease it in the center and glue it onto the pom-pom. For feet, glue pipe cleaners to the bottom of each egg. You can put your birds in a basket that looks like a nest or use wire to attach the birds to tree or other plant branches from your garden.
Other stuff: Bits of broken costume jewelry; small dried or silk flowers and leaves; pieces of pot pourri and confetti. |
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